Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-08
|V|uRDE R RING SOLUTION Near
IN OUR
VALLEY

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AVA Southern Pacific will build from
Falfurrias through McAllen to the Rio
Grande, are losing no time in preparing
for the growth that is expected to fol-
low the arrival of an additional rail-
road.
Reports from there tell of five brick
business houses under construction on
Main Street.
On Railroad Avenue, the street that
parallels the Gulf Coast track, Sam
Bazzell, formerly of Palestine, Tex. is
building garage and filling station
that will represent an outlay of $4,000
Carlos Fink is building a garage
and storeroom on the same street.
Work is starting on a three-story
building at Main and Seventeenth Ave
nue. for NJ J. Bowie. DR.. A. B. Cock
rum will erect a two-story apartment
house on Main Street.
The program, however, is that being
developed by Charles n. Smith, former
ly of Saratosa, Fla. and A. T. Smith
of Buffalo, n. Y. who in association
with r. f. Horn and L. U Bartliff will
erect 20 houses at a total outlay of
about 100000 The houses will cost
from $1,000 to $4,000 each.
What is going on at McAllen is true
OF most of the towns in this section.
More building, in fact is going on in
the Delta than in any part of the
state, with the exception, of course, of
the larger cities, like Dallas and Hous-
ton.
Harlingen is expending a great deal
of money in municipal Improvements,
and in business buildings and residen-
ces, while San Benito, too, is enjoying
a healthy building program which will
be topped by its fine hotel.
And. right in line is Brownsville
which has been enjoying much new
building, and is scheduled to have much
more during the coming year.
Driving for piling for .he Hotel FL
Jardin is scheduled to begin in a day
or two, the driver having been erected
the creosoteo piling on the ground. And
news is expected almost any day that
work is to start on the splendid new
passenger terminal for the Gulf Coast
Lines.
Shippers. chamber of commerce man
ayers and others of the Valley are pre-
pairing to swoop down on Western
Fruit Jobbers at New Orleans next
week, bent on securing the 1927 meet
ing of this organization for the Lower
Rio Grande Valley The sessions will
be held in Brownsville, and the jobbers
will be entertained at other points in
this section.
Dallas, which was an applicant for
the convention of 1927, is reported to
have withdrawn in favor Of Browns
willie, for which we thank Dallas.
This convention is particularly desir-
able for the Valley, because the West
ern Fruit Jobbers handle most of the
products of this section 1t will be
worth something to the Valley for them
TO see the country that produces the
stuff they sell for it.
w. II. MDavitt of Brownsville is
among the most energetic workers in
the efforts to secure this convention Of
more than 700. Mr.. McDavitt first
brought the Valley prominently to the
attention of the jobbers when they met
in Fort Worth -four or five years ago.
He saw to it that they had Valley
grapefruit at a banquet The demon
stration "sold" the Valley to them.
Mr. McDavitt has obtained a great
deal Of support among jobbers in be-
half of bringing the convention here
next year.
In Oklahoma City the name of Over
holser means build and boost
1t has been name prominent in the
growth and development of Oklahoma
City since it was founded, one day
back in 1889.
1t built theatres and business build
ings. It built such buildings at a cost
that made folks think the Overholsers
must be crazy. But Overholser con-
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