Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-10-03

i'm OUR
VALLEY

some day to be much more inn
portant border city. is continuing
signs Of development.
Rio Grande City, which just lit
tie over a year ago was given its
first railroad connection with the
outer world, has now become an in
corporated town, with a mayor and
everything that a city denotes.
With proper expenditure Of tax
money, Rio Grande City, already well
populated, can become a city in
more ways than one.
There are many nice Buildings,
stores and residences in the town.
1t has a population of at least 1000.
In the back country, north of Rio
Grande City, oil resources are b
lieved to exist. Much money n
being expended to prove whether
there is flowing gold in sufficient
quantity to cause development.
Across the river, in Mexico, over
ITO the southwest. there is much nd
ditional oil development.
Rio Grande City has a future.
YDont make any mistake about it.
THE DAILY COTTON region bull
letin issued by the weather bureau
mt Houston shows that even in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley there is
wide range of temperature.
For instance. in the "a hours end
ing Friday morning at o'clock, the
highest temperature in Brownsville
was ss degrees. while the highest IN
Mission was 96. The Brcwnsvil',
low for the same period was 7S, aid
the Mission low ".
Tuesday Brownsville had high Of
30. while Mission reported a high Of
"a. The Brownsville low was rs, the
Mission lew 20.
SOMEBODY IN Ell Paso raised
charzs thasl Juarez children were at
attrnhing Ell Paso public schools
~E1tR6ut paying tuition.
Tae FL Paso Post started an in
vestigation on its own account. 1t
found that only about 35 Juarez chill
dren were attending El Paso public
schools, all Of whom paid tuition
But 1t found that $50 other children
of Juarez were attending parochial
schools in FL Paso, where they paid
tuition, if they were financially able
TO do SO.
FROM THE MERCEDES News:
"'In Our Valley in The Brownsville
Herald tells very graphically of
some of the things seen on the Mon
terrey trip. Among these he men
toned the gin at Reynosa. However,,
ne did not mention the large pile OF
cotton picked and put in towsacking
and stacked out by the side of the
gin. Inquiries at the gin brought out
the fact that much Of this cotton i
raised BY Mexican farmers who grow
only very small patches. They pick
perhaps only hundred, two hundred
or five hundred pounds, bring il in
TO the gin and sell it in the seed.
The ginner stacks the cotton out TO
one side and then gins IT,"
Failed TO mention those facts. On
the Mexican side the farmer usually
sells his cotton to the ginner. who
Z aoS@hbfCc AAttA perhaps SNF(A"@-
sources to make up bale.
The Reynosa gin il the largest
between Matamoros ard Monterrey.
There are four or five gins along
the route, but most of them are
single stand affairs.
The cotton one finds along the
right of way Is mostly in small
patches, as suggested by the News.
BY the way. most Of the freight
produced along the National Lines of
Mexico between Aldamas and Mon
terrey consists of wood. At every
station there is a stack waiting to
be loaded.
DOWN BETWEEN Ramones sta
tion and Monterrey-Ramones Is 40
miles from Monterrey-there Is an
irrigation project. Few crops are
visible from the railroad.
The canals are about four feet
wide. Naturally they do not impress
the observer from the Lower Rio
Grande Valley, who is accustomed to
see canals that look like fairly good
sized rivers
AN ASSOCIATED PRESS dispatch
4 from Chicago the other day an
nounced an increase Of TOO per cent
in the generating capacity Of the
Central Power & Light Company
properties in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley.
Eighty-eight of the l02 ccnimuni-
ties served by the company are To-
Gated in South Texas. and the dis
patch says persistence of the VAL
ley's growth is seen in still further
additions to generating capacity now
being completed"
The dispatch was broadcast over
the United States via a thousand or
so papers served by The Associated
Press, and the advertising contained
in the statements above and the fol-
lowing paragraph should prove of
value to the Valley:
Underlying this growth" the dis
patch continues, els remarkable ag-
FiSultural development favored by
climatic conditions which permit the
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