Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-09-30
I'm OUR
VALLEY


RAILROADS COME high, il you
ask some of the Valley towns which
are Offered Southern Pac fic ser
vice.
But another railroad is considered
by most towns as worth the price, if
they can make the grade.
Brownsville, comparatively poor
community in an undeveloped coun-
try. q years ago produced 100000
when promoters Of the st. Louis,
Brownsville & Mexico railroad asked
the bonus.
Now Harlingcn, Edinburg and Nc
Allen, VIII ch came into being after
the Brownsville road was built, are
experiencing some Of the sensations
that Brownsville experienced many
years ago.
Harlingen is asked for seven blocks
of ground $50 feet wide, or the
equivalent of from $l25,OOO to $780,
600.
Edinburg is asked for 100000 and
right-of-way, IS We understand it.
McAllen, il is understood. is re-
quested to raise $4,000 and supply
a twenty-foot right-of-way.
OF course, all Of the towns will
make the grade.
But one wonders what would hap
pen If they failed to make it.
YES, JANIS, in few days now
you will be given an idea Of how
Hotel FL Jardin, Brownsville's new
200-room hostelry, will appear when
IL is completed.
The rough-appear ng hollow tile
blocks Of which the walls are built
will not continue much longer TO be
the outside of the building. The
work OF stuccoing is starting in a
day or so. The scaffolding is ready
for the plasterers, who will start at
the ground and work up with the
cement, coming down W. tn the stucco
paint.
And in a few days the walls of the
new railroad passenger station, which
adjoins the hotel on the south--or
1t is east will begin to make their
appearance.
The great cement pillars for the
train shed going up. There will be
Ito OF them, and they VII carry the
shed for a distance Of 500 feet. or
the full length Of a train.
When the new station is ready, the
pillars and roof. will form an UNI
brelAa- So our travellers will not have
top into the rain to board the
train. or in the mud.
LAST SEPTEMBER disappeared
with record OF something like 21
inches of rain, or thereabouts.
Unless weather conditions change
between now and midnight. this Sep
tember will probably show a lighter
rainfall than any September in many
years.
IL has been a comparatively dry
month, Septemberially speaking.
All OF which is not altogether un-
satisfactory to the grower IN this
district. Ii he has crops in that
need water. he has his Mondays. or
his Tuesdays, or his Wednesdays or
his Thursdays. Fridays. Saturdays, on
.shfcs- -.he. pumping plant will trans
fer the wonderful moistening fluid
over his acres.
And it leaves the ground in the
right sort Of shape for some of that
fall planting.
Last fall was a wet fall, indeed.
MAJOR EDWARD A. Wood, city
plan expert Of Dallas. who has been
doing some work in the Valley, has
the following in the Mercedes News.
and its well worth reproducing in
every Valley newspaper:
- have made number Of trips to
the Rio Grande Valley Of Texas and
am very much impressed W IN the
development Of every sort in the Val
ley.
-On my first trip here was i'm
pressed with the necessity for a
regional plan for the entire Valley
BrvSxy town should be linked and CO
ordinSrsd with every other town
This is neressar- for the future
growth. and even now corrective
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