Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-08-22
I'm OUR
VALLEY

SEVEN HUNDRED per cent more
electric power il required to meet
that demand in the Valley than three
years ago.
The figure is credited to Z. b.
Neiswanger of San Antonio. general
manager of the Central Power &
Light Company, known here as the
Valley Electric & Ice Company.
The company serves all towns with
\ the exception of Brownsville and
Harrington, yet where they had
2OGO- horsepower capacity three years
ago, il now requires 15,000-horse-
power capacity to meet the demands
OF the public.
This means that construction
crews have been in continuous mo-
tion in the past three years, on the
Jump every minute to keep up with
the needs of the country. Ii means
that additional generating equipment
was going into use at almost ali
times.
PROBABLY there is not a better
market anywhere in these days for
such con.rivances as electric stoves,
electric percolators, electric curling
irons fwonder il they still use
them?,, electric ironing equipment,
electrically operated refrigerators,
electric vacuum sweepers, and so or,
than is found in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley.
AND THE PICKING Of cotton goes
merrily along.
More than 10000 bales ginned'
and still there are many, many fields
that do not seem to have been
touched.
Now estimates are the Valley will
20 even beyond the estimate OF
10000 to 100000 bales. Now LOOKS
like 16O, 900 bales. or something like
$4,000 bales more than the Valley
ever produced before.
Pickers continue to be difficult to
find.
And they are as independent az
the well known hog on ice.'
It's the cotton picker's day in the
Valley, and he's surely having ~.
And ne is not keeping his good
fortune to himself. He's dividing
with the grocer, the baker and the
candlestick maker, so to say.
The United States Chamber of Com
merce business may continues to re-
fleet a very good business condition
in this section Of Texas. The United
States Chamber Of Commerce has
the right information.
BOY SCOUTS have been taking n
turn at traffic directing in Browns
vile this week.
And unless we miss our guess,
motorists here today know more
about how to observe the traffic
laws than they ever have.
The alert. polite youngsters never
missed halting a motorist who failed
TO observe the stop signs at cross
ings in the business district. Fall
ure Of light TO burn. front or rear.
brought a prompt signal to halt from
n Boy Scout. IL was a good turn
the boys took this past week.
NOW COMES the Missouri Pacific
with announcement Of further pro-
posed extensions, in addition to a
desire to acquire the San Antonio
Southern, a short line out Of San
Antonio.
Among the extensions proposed. is
one from the San Benito & Rio
Grande railway (Spiderweb). Mo-
Pac property. in southeasterly di-
rection to connection with the
Rio Grande railway, the Brown5-
willie Point Isabel line, an indepen
dent property.
The proposed extension would
thread a country said to be highly
valuable from an agricultural stand
point.
More railroad construction in the
Valley means more farm land avail
! able for producing purposes. Prob
ably will not add to the irrigated
area. but there is still potential tor
mage in land farmed under the "dry
farm" system.
BULLETIN-Ru Rudolph Valentines
condition has made such wonderful
improvement in the past twenty-four
hours that no further bulletins on
his condition will be issued.
The Sh:ek Of the Movies popu-
iarity has been amply demonstrated
by the telephone calls that havd been
received by newspapers all during
the day, asking about his condition.
Even the report of President
allies assassination, circulated in
brownsville Friday afternoon, and
ihich was without foundation. elici-
sed no more interest than the ques-
Gon. How is Valentino today?"
SPEAKING OF shieks. have you
noticed the large number of young
sters appearing on the streets re
Gently minus hats. with hair siicked
back and shining?
N That's one of the signs Of the
times.
Perhaps the merchants don't care
so much for the style, but they do
say-not the merchants, but others
THAT leaving the hat off is health
full for the scalp. Perhaps. too, that
Aaccounts for the vieprs that have
,ecome so popular Of late. Helen
Wills started that.
| HEAT WILL CONTINUE
DALLAS, Tex. Aug. 21.-tPl-No