Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-22
I'm OUR
VALLEY

AGANEoE FARMERS IN tne lower
Rio Grande Valley were the
first to produce tomatoes this season.
according to advices reaching The
Herald.
/ One markets his product at Pharr,
s'she. other markets his at San Ben
ito.
The first tomatoes, according to a
letter to The Herald. from Bryce
Ferguson. manager Of the Booster
Club of Pharr, were sold at Pharr on
April Is by VI. Tsutsui of Pharr. This
farmer sent the first crate to Hous-
ton. On the Goth he sold six crates,
and on the 2ist fifteen crates.
On April 10. X. Tomyasu, Japanese
farmer of near San Benito, brought
in a crate of tomatoes which he sold
to Wade & Newton.
The tomato crop is one of the I'M
I portant productions of the vegetable
season in the Lower Rio Grande VAL
ley.
Shipments out Of the Valley al
ready are several hundred carloads
ahead of the same date last year. in
dicating a probable greater produc-
tion this year than last-all in spite
of unseanonable weather that held
forth in the early part of January.
come down the Rio Grande unexpect-
edly the newspaper correspondent at
Eagle Pass gets busy and puts a news
message on the wires to the effect
that "both international bridges were
washed away" in rise Of the Rio
Grande.
Eagle Pass really has two bridges.
zut they are temporary affairs, built
pending the settlement Of court ac-
lions now in progress for the privil-
ege of erecting n permanent bridge.
The correspondent seemingly never
oothers to explain the type OF con-
struction that was destroyed. leaving
with the general public the impress
sion that the Rio Grande must be
terribly high.
It's long cry from Brownsville to
Port Townsend, Wash, but mot too
.ar. il seems, that the voice of radio
.tation KWWG Of Brownsville cam
not make the Rocky grade, and go
on over it.
The station has received letter
from Corporal l.. Dickinson, sta
toned at Fort worden, near Port
Townsend, showing something about
KWWC reeeption at a distant point.
: He says in part:
HIt was some kick had last night
Mt lO:3O when tuned in TO find mu-
sic ut what l thought KWW at Waiia
Walla. Wash, and when the selection
ended I heard a good old Texas voice
sound out the fact that the music
was coming from an orchestra OF
Matamoros, Mexico, and broadcasted
from KWWG, Brownsville. / don't
recall the name of the orchestra. but
/ do know that it was from Mata-
moros and through your station.
81 was listening in on five TUBE
receiver. which is not built for the
use of head phones, only for loud
sneaker. Therefore you can rest as
sured your music must have come up
strong-equally as loud as any local
station. with the exception of two
Seattle stations of more than looo
watt power"
"Just to let you know ! am not a
champion DIX liar, you signed OIL
with the song Weary by the orches-
ira from Matamoros. and the preced-
ing number was 'Shov' Me the way
10 Go Home stating thar you would
be on the air tomorrow at noon. 30
give my compliments to the orchestra
, and n big howdy-d to the announcer
and others. and let's have some more
from KWWG. Brownsville, Texas
GODS COUNTRY
Corporal Dickinson was stationed
at Fort Brown in 1919.
Port Townsend is 43 miles south
east Of Victoria, B. G.. 52 miles
northwest Of Seattle, and 2,l60 miles
from Brownsville.
One hundred thousand dollars
worth Of publicity came to the Lower
Rio Crande Valley the other day
when Associated Press papers
throughout the United States carried
on their first pages in the majority
Of cases, a dispatch from Kansas
City stating that big Tim Murphy
former Chicago politician and labor
leader, was going to live near
Brownsville. and raise cabbage. toma-
toes, beans and other truck and, In
cidentally manage a land develop
ment proposition in which he Is
backed by Chicago bankers "and 9TH
er capitalists" t.4 ~
Hundreds of thousands of people.
even millions. read that. dispatch,
and probably 80 per cent, of them
have their curiosity aroused in con-
nection with this country.
Don't know where big Tim" Is
going to develop lands here, but since
there is plenty Of it around Browns
: willie. there perhaps will be no diff
Guilty getting some of il in exchange
for the coin Of the realm.
In the meantime. the Lower Rio
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