Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-08-18
I'm OUR
VALLEY

THE VALLEY housewife may De
bothered with the pernicious little
/ brown ants, but in this country no
one need be pestered with flies.
Because there are few flies. and
there might as well be none. valley
Nhousewives need not. as Mr, Arthur
brisbane. the Hearst editorial writer,
suggests paint their kitchens a
bright blue.
Flies dislike blue, says :Ir. Bris-
bane. On the other hand, he says,
paint your beehives blue. # you do
&so the bees will be happier. He ex-
plains it this way: Perhaps II is
because the bees enjoy themselves
under the blue sky, while flies like
TO be out of the sunlight and away
from the blue sky. In blue kitchen
they may think they are outdoors
runder the sky. They are not very
bright"
CALLED AGAINl In this column
| the other day, in congratulating the
; Hidalgo County Bank at Mercedes ON
its plans to erect a splendid three
story building, the statement was
made that the Mercedes bank was
the oldest in the Valley, outside Of
Brownsville.
Now comes s. l.. Gill of Raymond
willie correcting US. The Raymond
willie State Bank, it appears, was or
ganized by c. II. Pease ABOUT three
months before the Mercedes bank
made its appearance on the scene.
Just to make it positive, says Mr..
Gill, If you desire the exact date
of organization of both these insti-
tutions in order to verify what
say. | will obtain it from the state
department.
AL PARKER writes to commend
The Herald:
Il wish to comment upon the
! splendid, favorable publicity you are
giving to the question of construct
ing a system of roads throughout
the northeastern portion of our
county. | am entirely confident as
soon as a road system is constructed
throughout that section. it will de-
velop into a valuable asset, increas-
ing materially the county's income
and will give to the Rio Grande
Valley an additional advantage.
The increase in value that will be
brought about by reason Of the con-
struction of a road system through
out this section will amount TO
enough in taxable revenue 10 pay the
entire cost instantly. therefore
trust you will keep this question be-
fore the public"
THERE ARE something like il0,-
! 600 acres of brush land between the
Arroyo Colorado and the Rio Grande
railroad that is still undeveioped. OF
the amount, it is said, something
like $4,000 acres is splendid cotton
land. Irrigation probably will not be
svailable for TINT district. but the
land is good for farming under "dry
farm" conditions, like those con
ditions found in the Raymonaville
country and in the Robstown dis
trict.
u
or $40 an acre. or even less. it can
be doubled in assessable value very
quickly by the construction of dirt
roads. II is pointed out.
Mr.. Parker has investigated the
area closely. He believes in its fu-
ture. Mr.. Parker is first of all n
developer. II he hadn't thought the
4 ka do
! of urging the building of dirt roads
would not have occurred to him. In
other words. he probably wouldn't
have been interested.
SAN JUAN is agitating the erec-
tion of a hundred room hotel.
Pharr likewise sees the need there
for erection Of an adequate hotel.
Edinburg is building a commodious
hotel.
Weslaco is about to start erection
of a 100000 hostelry.
Harlingen is witnessing the COM
pletion Of the new Reese Wil-Mond,
and the Damants will add enough
rooms to make it l0O-room hos
telry.
San Benito was expecting to break
ground today for its splendid COM
munity-financed hostelry.
The tree branch has been placed
on top of the Hotel FL Jardin,
Brownsville.
We've mentioned these Things be-
fore. But we're so proud Of the way
hotels are being built and planned
to be built. that one just can't help
telling it over and over again.
POSTPONE MATCHES