Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-07-21
I'm OUR
VALLEY

SOMEWHERE in the lower coast
country between Kingsville, Texas
and San Fernando. in Tamaulipas,
and possibly 100 to $50 miles back
from the coast, there will be a real
OIL field, and that within a mighty
few years.
on Where there's so much smoke,
there must he fire.
:. In the Rio Grande City-Hebbron-
IA, vile district oil in paying quantities,
IN few instance, has been found.
/ North of Monte Christie, on the Nc
6 Allen ranch, oil is being sought.
II There are prospects in the Raymond
X vile neighborhood.
=, Crossing the Rio Grande. into
II we find a half dozen
I. concerns interested in wild-catting
: ,busily engaged with seismographs
: and other instruments in an effort
TO determine where exists the best
drilling bet.
The Tampico field is said to be on
the decline. The excellent supply
that it maintained for many years
must be replaced. Therefore the
various activities.
Near Aldamas. 125 miles west Of
Matamoros, drilling is underway.
Flowing gold and green gold are
joining to make the extreme south
ern part of Texas a great country.
j. F. NJ. STEPHENS, former Del
Rio newspaperman, and later editor
and manager of the Alamo News. has
Joined the staff of the WiIIacy
County News at Raymondvlle.
Cal Noble. who has been advertis-
ing manager Of the Mercedes News.
becomes editor and manager of the
Alamo News, one of a string papers
owned by the United Printing Com
pany.
BROWNSVILLE is planning to
revise its charter. The present
charter. adopted in 1915. was be-
lieved at the time to be the modern
Of moderns.
But that 1915 charter already has
seen outgrown. The square and
the saw and chisel and the hammer
are to be applied on the structure,
which will he replanned to permit n
number of things that Brownsville
seems unable to do under the eleven
year old charter.
Brownsville feels that il needs
more elbow room. Wants to spread
out bit and enfold a number Of
very excellent citizens who have
made their homes just outside the
city limits, at the extreme north
western side of the city
The Herald has particular reason
TO be aware Of the growth of West
Brownsville. No so long ago il
maintained a delivery route in that
section with only 25 subscribers. The
carrier now serving that section dis
tributes something like 100 papers
every day.
GRAPE CULTURE Is to be tried
out on an extensive scale in the vi
cinity of Monte Christie. in the CEN
tral-western part of Hidalgo county.
The soil is said TO be peculiarly
adapted TO the product.
Which recalls the wailing and
moaning Of the grape growers Of
: California when the Volstead became
law some years ago. They foresaw
the ruin of an industry that had been
half century mire in the making
But ruin failed to materialize. In
less than a year theer was, for rea-
son, a greater demand than ever for
the the grapes that California was
eroNs;-.-.
PERHAPS the Monte Christie country
can ride the same wave Of prosperity
for the same reason.
HATS OFF to the San Benito
baseball club.
They throw back into their faces
the words Of their "traducers," that
San Benito had tired Of baseball and
was going to quit the league in dis
gust.
Brownsville diamond yesterday
proves that the San Benito fighting
spirit has never waned. San Benito
always has had a good baseball team.
The Saints are being heard from,
with a vengeance.
Timer of Brownsville and Runnels
of San Benitc. moundsmen extra
ordinary, fought il out for sixteen
4 innings. The breaks came for San
Benito and they won.
y And we repeat-there's as good
baseball. on the average. in the Val
I. ley League. as can be found any
where in Texas. the Texas League in
4 cluded.
n JOHN r. ROBINSON. who came TO
Edinburg's Booster Club something
like Q year ago. to manage and direct
the chamber of commerce activities
of the town. has resigned to enter
) another field.
He will continue to live at Edin-
burg.
Mr.. Robinson had come to be a
raaI factor in tho growth Of Fdin.