Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-08-15
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try supplies no water 10 the river.
is being challenged.
DR.. G. d. Fairbanks of Browns
vile, in a letter TO The Herald the
other day. as a matter of fact, the
land adjacent TO the river does feed
its surplus into the border stream.
It's sub-surface drainage that does
it, declares DIR. Fairbanks.
This belief. he says, is supported
by the fact that the river. Is often
flowing a good stream AZ Brownsville
when in its upper sections il IS quite
depleted Of water.
The late Judge r. e. Forto who
had studied the Rio Grande for
half century, always insisted that It
would never go dry in the section
below Mission. for example, because
of this sub-surface flow which pours
into the river the minute its depth
goes below the surface Of the
ground.
COMMODORE LOUIS COBOLINl
adds his voice to that Of Or. Fair
banks. He says that flow measure
ment at Roma. and other measure
ments to account for the intake by
pumps, will develop that more water
flows past Brownsville that can be
accounted for in the Roma and in
take measurements.
Anyhow. that there is basis for
the argument is apparent to even the
lay mind.
No doubt someone interested IN
the riparian rights question along
the Rio Grande will see that TINS
side Of the argument gets before the
water engineers.
THE LA FERIA NEWS. discussing
the proposed University Junior Col
lege. to be opened soon in Browns
vile, says:
"The University Junior College, 10
be established nj Brownsville as
branch for our main University, Of
fers a wonderful opportunity for stu
dents Of this section 70 get the best
educational advantages near home at
a minimum cost. f~-----------s
Few appreciate the service our
state school system Is rendering. Be
cause il is state owned il is taken
ms matter of course. That the
system is being intelligently oper-
ated is shown by the fact that its
managers have recognized the i'm
portance of the Valley and its claim
on the state school system"
THE OLDEST BANK in the Lower
Rio Grande country outside Of
Brownsville II the Hidalgo County
Bank. Mercedes
Recently the Mercedes bank had
the satisfaction of observing the
Vaulting into seven figures of its de
posits. They were something like
Sl.O3O.00O few days ago. the first
time the institution has gone above
a million.
So President Mcneil and Active
Vice President Barton. taking cog
rizance of the important event m
re banks life. have announced 2
.aree story bank and office building
70 cost 100000.
HERE Is AN INTERESTING little
story from the Mercedes Tribune:
"Mr. FIVE. a farmer residing near
Hralingen. was in the city this morn
ing. enthused over the Valley. where
one crop goes 10 the market quickly
followed By another without the
customary twelve months wait be-
tween harvests.
ale had good cause for enthusi-
nsm. From % acres of land he sold
This spring over $4,000 worth q
cabbage. paving his landlord cash
rental amounting "a Sis per acre.
And the same land which raised this
$4,000 crop is probably being picked
over for bale of cotton to the
acre. right now"
PRESIDENT W. K. SCOTT Of the
Southern Pacific. addressing the Val
lev-San Antonio celebration at san
Antonio the other day, repeated his
oft stressed point that canning fac
tories are the proper thing 20 absorb
the surplus crop Of the Valley. or 70
take care Of crops when prices are
not satisfactory.
This writer several months ago
had occasion 10 interview MIR. Scott
and another Southern Pacific presl-
dent. the latter from California
Then as now they stressed canning
factories.
Establish them everywhere" they
urged "The farm communities should
onerate them as community affairs
When prices are good they need not
he operated Why prices are not
what they should be, can the stuff.
That's the way to beat the game"
Ont at Olmito there's a successful
canning factory. Cans tomatoes
suinach. beans and other truck. Their
strff's good. We know because the
wife said So And what the wife
says, goes.
And whoever said Valley cabbage
wouldn't make good sauer kraut was
wrong. dead wrong. Had jar of Il
the other day that was put up year
ago. IL there was any better any
where we've never seen or tasted It.
Strange are the ideas sometimes
absorbed by folks living far from
the Mexican border.
A Brownsville woman the other
Aax wrote a friend in Florida that
sbe was planning a trip to Monter-
yey-
Quickly came letter warning her.
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