Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-03-29
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tue flaIiiUEen 1ndmDer OF &hiH-
merce, and dean Of chamber Of com
merce secretaries Of the Lower Rio
1rande. Is also president Of the lit
tie organization of commercial secrc-
taries.
The commercial secretaries as an
organization do not initiate projects
for the Valley. They merely meet
together once month fer the pur-
pose Of discussing valley-wide topics
and topics Of interest to themselves.
Sometimes one of them is called
upon TO address delegation Of visi-
tors to the Valley Mr.. Toolan is
good taIker, and since he is also
president of the secretaries, he is us
uaily the man called upon to maks
the talk.
And there Is always one outstand-
ing fact in his addresses. lie never
talks Harlingen. or Brownsville. or
mission or any town. He always
speaks of the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley, or of the towns that compose the
Lover Rio Grande Valley.
In his own work, Mr.. Toolan al
ways tells the visitors, "If we do not
have what you want in our town.
then there are plenty Of other good
towns in the Valley that may suit
you. And he proceeds to tell about
them all.
Mr.. Toolan has laid down a splen-
did set of ethics for his organization.
They are being followed.
The Herald Sunday morning car
ried an item of significance along
this line II told of meeting of
commercial secretaries at Mercedes.
The item, as it appeared in The Her
aid, carried Mercedes datelne. The
subject matter was Of particular in
terest TO Harlingen and Point Isabel.
since 1t dealt with the intracosta
canal plan and the plan to dredge the
Arroyo Colorado, and the story ap-
peared in a Brownsville newspaper.
During the latter part of this
week, the potato growing districts Of
Cameron county will begin putting
young spuds on the market
Potatoes from the big spring crop
of the Brownsville Benito neigh
borhood, and with fair break on the
market, there is no reason why the
growers will not realize from $4,000
600 to s3,000,000 for the crop.
The market bureau advises that
Valley potatoes will have the market
to themselves until about the first
of May. May they make the best Of
il.
The Mission Times published
splendid edition Of that newspaper
last week as welcome TO the con
vention Of the South Texas Educa-
tionai Association. II was represen
tative of the town Of Mission. car
ried much of an Informative nature
concerning the Mission district. and
was highly appreciated by the visi-
trs to the convention.
Tampico has well underway a stock
subscription in G. NJ HaskelFs pro-
posed toll road from Mexico City to
the American border AT Matamoros.
The Mexican port city has set it
self to the task of taking 100000
pesos worth of the bonds Haskell
proposes to issue. IL that amount
100000 nesos already has been sub
scribed.
Tampico, through the American
Chamber of Commerce there, is do
ing everything il can 10 advance the
work on this highway, realizing that
its return will come in the form of
a large number of visitors when the
tourist finds out that Mexico has
roads and things that are worth see
ing.
IL appears that thirteen names
have been mentioned in connection
with an appointment by the Cameron
county commissioners of successor
to Colonel Sam Robertson.
The superstitious will be inclined
to the opinion that that number i3 is
the reason for the difficulty that has
been met
Also, it appears that Colonel Rob
ertson's is at least one place that is
hard to fill
In the meantime the colonel is
pushing matters on his Ocean Beach
Driveway. That. by the way. Is to
be the official name OF his coast pro-
jcct.
The Mitzi, another of his transfer
I boats is en- route TO Laguna Madre.
Although many are working like
trojans to help advance the coast
project, none more than s. c. Tucker,
president Of the Brownsville Cham
ber of Commerce. il seems that diff
/ ficulties in connection with roads are
being encountered.
Nothing should hamper the coast
project. II would be bad business to
land a tourist on the north end OF
Padre Island in the expectation of
good road to Brownsville, and then
have him find difficult motoring to
this city and other Valley POINTS.
Rather than encounter such bad
roads, it is our guess the ocean beach
road folks would rather promise their
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