Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-31
IN OUR
VALLEY

M EAI TO more paved streets, next 10
more storm and sanitary sewerage
next to more hotel and other living ia
cilities, next to a better lighted city,
we can't think of any better news than
that the Secretary Of the Treasury of
the United States is advertising for
bids for remodeling, enlarging and 9th
crwise improving the Brownsville fed
eral building.
The bids will be opened in Washing
ton on February %. according to an ad-
vertisement in The Herald.
Congressman John N. Garner is the
man responsible for bringing to the at
tention of the treasury department the
situation that exists in the Brownsville
federal building.
The postoffice particularly has need
ed enlargement to accommodate the de
mand of the public.
The federal courtroom also has been
long found inadequate, although only
two terms of court are held year, of
= week or so each.
The federal building was erected in
Brownsville in 1892. Until the erec-
tion of the present Cameron county
courthouse in 1911, it was the finest,
most commodious structure in Browns
vile.
But it was built to accommodate a
population OF only 1000 or 5000.
It now is called on to accommodate
a population of $4,000 insofar as post
al facilities go, and population of 16O,-
600 insofar as federal court require
ments are concerned.
The treasury department has avail
able $4,000 a year to spend on the
work. It is possible that second ap-
preparation can be made in another
year.
At all events, the improvement
should accommodate the needs Of the
Brownsville office for some years, and
perhaps later, if the city continues to
expand, Brownsville will be given real
federal building.
H. p. Boyd, manager of the Valley
Gin Company at San Benito, announces
the total ginnings for 1925 in Gamer
on, Hidslgo,- Starr and Willacy coun-
ties as 112,320 bales.
Cameron ginned 45,l18 bales, Hidal-
60 $3.50 bales, Starr 2,699 bales, and
Willacy 9,713 bales. There were in
creases in all except Starr county,
which experienced to some extent the
drouth that struck a large part of
Texas last year. Normally Starr coun-
ty produces from 5000 to 5000 bales.
Brownsville friends of Don Emilio +.
Puig are congratulating him upon his
appointment as general manager of the
Companies Electrical del Chapala, at
Guadalajara, state of Jalisco, Mexico.
Don Emilio, as he is known in
Brownsville and Matamoros, will be in
charge of the largest hydro-electric
project in Mexico, operating about 10
miles of high voltage lines, serving a
large district about Guadalajara.
The power project was recently pur-
chased for $2O,O0O,OO0 by Morrison &
Mccall, formerly owners Of the Valley
Electric & Ice Company and the Texas
Central Power Company.
Don Emilio is a native Texan. For
many years he served as United States
vice-consul in Matamoros, and also was
manager Of the Matamoros electric
property. When Morrison & Mccall
bought the plant several years ago,
Don Emilio became manager of the La
redo electric property and street rail
way properties, and has made his home
there.
Police officers and traffic officers
can do as much in selling" the city
to the visitor as the Chamber of Com
merce or any other civic organization.
The value of courtesy to the visitor
is shown in an editorial in Roanoke
Va, newspaper, in which is related the
incident that a Roanoke man met in
Spartanburg, S. C. The editorias was
handed to The Herald by T. J. Swee-
ney Of Brownsville, a former Roanoker.
IT says:
"A Roanoker who had occasion to mo-
tor down to South Carolina recently
has returned singing the praises of
Spartanburg. Let him tell why in his
own words:
81 drove into the cit yand when
reached what / took to be the center OF
the town / drove up to the curb and
parked my car. hoping as / did so thai
] wasn't breaking any of the Spartan
burg traffic regulations, of which l was
ignorant, of course. But 1 discovered
almost Immediately that my fears or
that score were groundless. A police
man came up and tied small tag or
the handle of the car door and then
touching his hat with pleasant smile
said: 81 see by your license plate tha
you are from Virginia. This tag that
have tied on the handle of your dool
excuses you from any violation of oul