Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-02-02

IN OUR
VALLEY

- JMORS flying. Everywhere one
AA hears them. So many of them it
is difficult to give any Of them Gre
dence.
For instance, one hears that the
Wanamaker estate of Philadelphia and
New York is preparing to put money
into the Rio Grande country and lower
coast.
Then again comes the name Of Will
liam Wrigley, Jr., chewing gum manu-
facturer, owner of the famous Cata-
lima Island, off the California coast.
Wrigley was reported months ago to
have visited this section, but if he did
so, his visit was so quietly carried out
that it was never confirmed.
To top it all, the rumors are that
Stone & Webster, of Boston, owners of
Htreet railway properties and engineers
for industrial and engineering projects
of all kinds, will develop the properties
bought by the millionaires named above.
At the time of the convention of the
Mid-Continent Life Insurance Company
at Stuart Place recently, it was reported
that among the crowd were Stone &
Webster representatives.
Just to make the thing complete, why
not ring in few more millionaires.
Let's include Henry Ford, Daniel
Guggenheim, Andrew w. Mellon and the
rest of his family, AMI if you know any
oil multi-millionaires, why not bring
their names into the situation.
Without justification, real estate men
assert, property values have gone up 25
to so per cent in Brownsville in the
past Is months.
The tendency is, they assert, to make
it difficult if not impossible to sell a
domestic.
"A good way to completely stop the de-
velepment of your city is to put real es-
tate prices out of sight. Another good
way to stop it is not to sell it at any
price.
If it's your idea to withhold property
from improvement by high prices, it is
inevitable that development will stop,
and downward tendency will ensue Or
maybe someone will come along and
build a city somewhere else, or a busi-
ness district.
Something of the kind happened in
San Antonio a score of years or so ago.
Property owners on Commerce street
shot up prices. That's how they built
Houston street. Houston street is now
the principal business street. Rental
prices on Houston are several times
what they are on Commerce street. No
one with a business that needs to be in
the center of activities wants to get on
a side stree.
Another thing: You cannot build a
These are sewerage service to every
possible part of the city where there
are homes, storm sewerage to rid the
streets Of rain waters, and drainage of
every other kind.
And sidewalks. Folks do use auto
mobiles great deal, but there are still
many who walk. Especially school chill
dren. They should not be forced to
walk in the streets. It's a wonder that
many are not killed or injured.
Brownsville should have $2,000,O00 to
spend for sewerage extensions, for
drainage, and similar municipal ia
cilities.
1t should have more paving. It's a
shameful situation when scores of resi-
dents within q block of a paved street
are forced to use paved street as a
garage because they cannot navigate
mudholes to homes block away.
The folks already on paved streets are
not bothered, of course. Having theirs,
they are satisfied. But what about the
other fellow?
And country roads.
The county commissioners of Cam
eron county are considering calling a
road bond election of from $1,750,000 to
$3,O00,000.
Every fairly we'll populated farm dis
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