Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-05-25
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~ their home town, a feeling that
Brownsville some day would need
country club property il 1t ever ex-
pected to become point OF attrac-
tion for tourists, we've some OF the
things that animated eighteen
Brownsville men who several years
ago prevented foreclosure on the
property, took it over, helped IL
along, and now have turned 1t over
70 an owning company at the cost to
them several years ago. Needless 10
say. the property is worth severai
times what they paid for II, ana
what they sold il for.
These men were w. B. Clint, 5. G.
Tucker. X. b. Credger, A. b. Cole,
j. G. Fernandez, Albert II. Fernan-
dez, F. w. Seabury, A. Wayne Wood,
w. c. Craig, w. 5. West, II. NJ. Skei-
ton, Jesse bennett, John Gregg,
w. r. Jones (deceased), w. h. Ma
son, Jr., J. B. Scott, J. J. Young, Sr.,
(deceased), and A. B. Walker, the
last named now of Houston.
The newly organized Lakeside I'M
provement Company, capital stock
$4,000, divided into 800 shares OF
$3.50 each, par value, will own the
club grounds and some plan of lease
will be arranged by which it will
be operated by the Brownsville
Country Club, a separate organiza-
tion.
All Of which means that some OF
the best business and legal brains
in Brownsville have worked out "A
plan under which It Is possible for
a comparatively small community TO
have a real, modern, up-to-the-min-
ute country club. Enough stock has
been sold to relieve the proposition
of all encumbrances. with a suffi-
cient margin of stock remaining to
permit Of extensive further improve
ments. And, besides, the borrowing
capacity of the organization is based
on a value approaching to 100000.
The directors quit but ares or
4 lered back to work." says n head
fine in the Weslaco News in connec-
tion with the resignation of the di-
rectors Of the Weslaco Chamber OF
Commerce.
The membership refused to stand
for the designations. Which indi-
Gates that, even though they have
not shown it by producing the nee
essary coin of the realm, they have
appreciated the work Of the cham
ber. are determined to keep 1t going,
and will be more practical and ac-
tive in their support than hereto
fore.
The best chamber Of commerce in
the world is made by the best board
of directors. But there can be no
.best" board of directors unless
the membership realizes that its
duty is not only its time when called
upon to give it. but also its money.
A chamber Of commerce without
funds is worse than useless.
The Parkers and their associates
are rapidly rounding up the brush in
and around Olmito. in preparation
for the opening Of "The Unusual
City" on June 10 next.
That the extensive advertising that
is being given the proposition is
having wonderful effect is indicated
by the large number of motorists
that daily visit the site Of The
Unusual City"
Wide thoroughfares are being laid
ont. Scores of carloads of gravel
are arriving, to be spread out over
u the streets. The driveways around
the two lakes. as they are being cut,
indicate what is to be expected
once the new Olmito makes its ap-
pearance. These driveways promise
to draw additional thousands.
II Is an extraordinary undertaking,
this project that the Parkers have
thought out in the most available
place in the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley for such an undertaking.
We have said before. and We re-
neat. what we have known as re-
SAGA. will in time become the beauty
\ .nots of the Lower Rio Grande Val
lev. These resacas abound in the
south erd of Cameron county. Col
oneI Sam Robertson once made the
abatement that a person could travel
n hundred miles in boat along
The resacas Of Cameron county.