Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-03-20
MEETING HERE
OF ADVISORY
BOARD ENDED
Rio Grande Valley is
Being Toured; Bar
becue Given at Mer-
cedes to Visitors

Brownsville this morning made
farewell to 500 members Of .he South
west Shippers Advisory Boa "a, the
larrest delegation i has ever enter
tG.red, as the delegates assembled at
the First Methodist church for day =
tour Of the Rio Grande Valley by
automobile.
Itinery Of the advisory board mem
bers included towns in the lower end
OF the Valley for the morning part
Of the journey, leaving the Upper
Valley for the afternoon. The dele
gates. wives and railroad officials
left the church and progressed to-
wards Mercedes where a barbecue was
served at noon. The afternoon was
spent in looking over the points of
interest in the upper part Of the Val
ley.
Special trains that had brought the
delegates TO Brownsville were moved
out Of the local yards Saturday to
Harlingen. The delegates will reach
Harlingen Saturday night after their
tour Of the Valley and will entrain
for their homes from this city. Those
leaving on the regular train will de-
part at 9 o'clock and the others rs
the specials pull out
Houston Gets Meet
Houston was chosen the next meet.
ing place Of the convention in the
closing minutes Of the session. after
Dallas had withdrawn in favor of that
city, but Mexico City, a dark horse in
the race, almost took the meeting
away from both.
About 25 railway men from Mexico.
headed By officials of the National
Lines of Mexico. were attending the
convention as invited guests and
when the call was made for invita-
tions for the next meeting, J. VI
Compos, traffic director of the MeXi
can lines, presented an invitation for
the capital of me Southern republic
in stirring address. j. Chavero. as
sistant general superintendent of the
Mexico lines and c. Salazar. superin.
tendent on car service on the same
system, also urged the claims Of
Mexico City.
A change in the constitution Of
the advisory board would be neces-
sary before the meeting could be held
out OF the district and this probably
prevented the meeting going to Mexi-
co.
In addition to Houston and Dallas.
Monroe, La, made n bid for the June
convention.
Southwest Prosperous
Mr.. COmpos, in expressing the
thanks Of the Mexican delegation for
the invitation TO the meeting. said
his party would return home and i'm
mediately inaugurate a move to form
an organization along the same lines
as those Of the advisory board. The
aid Of chambers Of commerce and all
civic bodies would be solicited, he
said.
The Southwest is more prosperous
than il mas been for q number Of
years past, all or the more than 80
reports presented at the afternoon
session indicated. Traffic originat-
ing III the Southwest last year. not
withstanding the heavy deficit in
grain and cotton production in Okla
homa and Texas, was the heaviest on
record, measured by carloads" r. q.
Andrews. district manager Of the car
service division reported.
The report Of W. J. Evans, federal
reserve agent said bank deposits and
clearings were about on a par with
last year but that the building rec
ords established in 1925 were being
broken in the same periods Of 1925.
All of the reports were of the same
general tenor. The Southwest, rs
referred to in the reports, include All
Of Texas. parts Of New Mexico. Okla
homa, Arkansas and Louisiana.
The speakers ut the meeting all re-
ferred to the Brownsville convention
as the most successful ever held.