Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-09-21
Upper Gulf Coast Region Feels Fury of Wint
I'm OUR
VALLEY

SHIPPERS, HOW much inbound
tonnage did you handle in 1925?
How much outbound?
What were these figures in the
first half Of 1926?
What is your estimate for the
year ending July, 1927?
The Brownsville Chamber Of Com
merce, taking cognizance Of the
fact that the harbor ut Point Isabel
is expected to be open for traffic
for vessels drawing l6 feet of water,
is conducting a survey of Valley
business tirms to ascertain these
figures.
The Chamber Of Commerce is pre-
pairing to urge a 30-foot harbor.
Our representatives in congress
will back us in our demand for
3O-foot harbar if we can produce
tonnage for the 16-foot harbor.
If the Valley can't produce ton
mage for a 16-foot harbor we GER
tainly could not hope to be given
30-foot harbor,
Cotton alone cannot be depended
upon to justify harbor. There must
be other things to move. There must
be inbound as well as outbound traf-
fic.
Send your answer to the Chamber
of Commerce questionnaire. It's
needed.
THE RIO GRANDE chapter Of the
Red Cross, G. +. Dodd. chairman,
has issued an appeal for funds for
the Red Cross for relief work along
the trail of the tropical storm that
swept Florida and other sections Of
the southeast.
The Red Gross is always in the
van when help is needed 1t has
available at all times funds for ora
dinary relief measures. But when
there is ii catastrophe such as that
storm, it calls for an extraordinary
amount of finances and work.
This is a good time TO show
practical sympathy for the stricken
district.
Contributions may be sent to Mr.
Dodd, or to any Of the Brownsville
banks. The money will be forward
cd to headquarters as rapidly us re-
ceived.
PRESS TROUBLE for several days
has been throwing The Herald late.
Repairs have been ordered. They
must come from far away Battle
Creek, Mich.
The Herald regrets these delays
very much. To properly serve its
reads il must be distributes over
tn. Valley before sundown. That is
alwaSs the effort Of The Herald.
We hope to be back at schedule
within the next two or three DAYS.
In the meantime. we hope readers
of The Herald will be just a little
patient with us.
When the automobile goes wrong.
there's always repair shop around
the corner. But there's only one
other such press on the Mexican
border-and no service station near
er than Battle Creek.
A LINE OF ornamental lights has
been strung along the walk from
Levee street to the United States
immigration station.
The lights are bright. with a new
type globe. II we had any sugges-
.tion for improvement, it would be
that another walk be built on the
north side Of the street, with
another string Of lights.
SPEAKING OF LIGHTS. everyone
who-wses Elizabeth street beyond the
high school is a bit puzzled over the
reason for light that is hung
every hight between two pieces Of
sewer pipe, the line Of which par
allels the street.
A sewer line is being constructed
across the street. The purpose of
the light ostensibly Is to serve as
danger warning. But the puzzle
comes over the fact that the light is
placed in such position that it is
not visible from either traffic direc-
tion.