Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-10-20

I'm OUR
VALLEY

THERE'S COAL al the western
door of the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley, according to report.
It's bituminous coal, or some
thing like the camel coal that IS
used in the hearth.
1t ignites quickly, like putting
match to a pine stick.
A vein of some 80 feet thickness
Is said to have been discovered near
and west Of Roma, between Roma
and the Zapata county line.
1t may be an extension of the
Laredo camel coal fields
II is said TO have been discovered
n the search for oil that is so wide
pread in the Rio Grande City Roma
lldamas area.
Perhaps it will be found that
here is sufficient of the product to
hstify development.
Railroad transportation is not SO
mr. away.
OTTO KAHN and his party came
b the Lower Rio Grande Valley ex
4 Ysheriffs, according to his own state
ment. OF course, by "sheriffs" he
meant the moving picture type Of
western sheriff.
Instead, he saw a most fertile
area, peopled with the finest sort Of
citizens, all working, all co-operat
ing, all with faith in the future of
their country.
That sort of situation appeals to
the business and financial imagina-
tion of the sort of leader Mr.. Kahn
happens to be.
THE VALLEY is nothing if not
cosmopolitan. Edinburg reports that
n survey shows that every state in
the union, Alaska. Canada and Mexi-
CO, are represented among the stu
dent body of the schools there.
Doubtless other school districts
Gan show approximately the same
The point is. the Valley is made
up from families that have come
from almost everywhere-and most
of them seem to have arrived in the
past five years.
JUPITER PLUVIUS has been very
1 kind to the builders Of Hotel FL
Jardin.
Forced to complete the plaster
work on the interior Of the hotel
before undertaking the plastering
and stueco work on the outside walls,
the contractors took the chance-and
won. Labor shortage caused the re-
versal of the usual order.
Had a driving rain occurred be-
fore the plastering Of the outside
walls there might have been some
trouble.
AS it is. everything il fine and
dandy. The front side of the long
building is now completed It's
creamy looking building. indeed.
Ell Jardin promises to be the most
novel. most attractive hotel structure
in Texas.
It's going to be downright pretty,
take our word for il.
THE MOST interesting prospect
story going up and down the Valley
these days. is the story Of a man who
came down into the Valley in
high-powered car. visited dozen
banking institutions, discussed their
purchase, with majority stock own
ers, announced to them that the price
was alright and that he would be
back in few days with checks to
cover.
1t was just like that. and perhaps
even little quicker in each sale
except that hardly any of them
wished to SELL
The man asked for no advances on
his checks, or other favors that any
one couldn't grant freely. and with
out pecuniary loss.
He even bought several thousand
acres Of land-on gentlemanrs
agreement to return later with pay
ments.
Finally he disappeared from the
Valley, along with his secretary and
others.
As the fame Of the Valley spreads
our business interests will become
better and better acquainted with
species of freak businessmen.
They say that money talks. Valley
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