Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-22
IN OUR
VALLEY

"A days ago it was stated that potato
growers in the section between Browns
willie and Harlingen and east of Browns
vile had bought $4,000 worth of seed
potatoes for this seasons paintings.
Cleve Tandy. potato grower of
Brownsville, advises that instead of
$4,000 worth of seed potatoes, the
amount, invested in seed potatoes by
our growers was nearer $250,000 or a
quarter Of million dollars.
Even $4,000 worth of Irish potatoes
would seem 20 US a pretty good sized
order. But $250,000-ph-e-e-
II the Hotel Ell Jardin were complet-
ed today, it would probably be filled
to overflowing with guests.
If there were available a half dozen
two and three-story buildings the up
per floors Of which were comfortably
equipped as small hotels, they too
would likely be doing nice business.
A few nights ago H. H. Haines, gen.
eral manager of the Houston Chamber
of Commerce, and five other men, all
from the north, arriving in Brownsville
at IL o'clock at night, found no hotel
accommodations. They found rooms in
Matamoros
Wednesday Governor M. E. Trapp Of
Oklahoma, arriving here for a hunting
trip in Mexico. also went to Matamoros
for hotel accommodations.
The Chamber of Commerce is being
flooded with requests for rooms. It
has appealed again to residents of
Brownsville who have rooms to spare,
to file their names, addresses, telephone
numbers and rates with the chamber.
The Haines and Trapp incidents be-
came known because of their promi-
nence. Doubtless there are many 9th
ers who meet with the same situation.
And what is true here, is also true
throughout the Rio Grande Delta Ho-
tells of one town are constantly ask
ing hotels in others if they have rooms
available.
Manager G. c. Richardson of the
Brownsville Chamber of Commerce. re-
ported on the activities of the chamber
at the annual meeting last night
The report indicated the elaborate
program that is ahead of Brownsville.
It will be printed in full in The Herald
Sunday. Read it. You and your neigh
Dor are members. It should interest
you.
IL the things suggested are carried
out, Brownsville will be a better city
to live in than it now is.
And that was splendid gathering of
Brownsville citizens that attended the
meeting. 1t was an outpouring of the
best; it was representative. 1t is men
and women like those that the Chamber
OF Commerce needs behind it in order
that it shall become a power for good,
q power in the growth and development
of the city and section.
Fred Keepers has associated with
himself party of four experienced wa
termelon growers at Raymondville.
When watermelon growers get togeth-
er things happen.
They rented 400 acres of the Yturria
ranch in Willacy county, and after US
ing fertilizer extensively, will plant the
tract to watermelons
The country's first watermelons are
grown in the Rio Grande Delta.
Also the first green corn for table
use.
We must feed the nation. We are
ready to feed the nation. We are anx-
ious to get our greens and our fruits
on every table.
The hammering of the piledriver on
the site of the Hotel Ell Jardin is the
sort of music that the average Browns
silleite likes to hear these days.
1t is the first time that a building
here is being built to such size that
fifty-foot poles, treated with creosote
are necessary to provide a proper foun-
dation. There will be about $50 of the
poles, driven into the earth just as a
ten-penny nail is driven into a plank.
1t will require something like 80
days to complete the job, barring ac-
cidents and unfavorable weather
After which the clusters of poles will
be concreted to depth of eight or ter
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