Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-08-25
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VALLEY

heretofore has not been cors.dered
valuable enough for residential or
other purposes indicates the con-
stantly Increasing value sf Browns
Vile dirt.
The outstanding piece Of reclama-
tion work is that being conducted
north of the high school by the
Lomax Henson q Houston and
Brownsville Development COMPANY.
Up to a few months ago that piece
Of ground was always sore spot. II
was always filling with water from
rains Drain bitches ran through H..
For the past SIX months tractors
have been moving a hill from ore
side Of the property to the other
side. In a short time il will be 4
"high and dry piece Of land. splen-
did for hnmesites or other purposes.
Recently the city acquired,
through lease, the low property ad-
jaccnt TO the river and east of
Twelfth street. shortly pumrs viii
be placed nearby. pirelines viii he
ran, suctions viii be thrown into
the river when the stream comes
up. the city viii fill that piece Of
ground. Later it will become an at
Iractiye park.
When al that work is completed
there will certainly not ~ \ m IRE
attractive passenger terminal in
Texas than that Of Broynsvills.
A GROWING town has things -
worry about. Nine times m.t cf
ten. its worries arc settled one ~
one II N didn't have that capacity,
il wouldn't be a growing town.
IIarlinpen has been given q man
sized job in the request IF the
Southern Pacific that the ci-y work
out some plan by which the South
crn Pacific can acquire title Ia
=ometh ng like s. city lots for ter
minals and right-of-way. The desired
property is said to be valued al
from 100000 TO Sl50,000,t
The citv IS now cndeavorinE 20 de-
tcrmine whether il can vote bonds
for the purpose. buy the property
and turn IL over to the city. Or
whether IL must raise the moncv in
other ways.
Harlingen viii find n way.
THE LATEST tropical storm out
% the Gulf ar Mexico. small Ia oi-
ameter, appears to have passed on
toward the north Gulf coast, without
any effect on the Lower Rio Gran ie
Valley, except 70 give il very
pleasant. cool northerly breeze
Which means that the cotton
growers of the VALLEY are given a
+ rev period OF dry weather in which
to continue without interruption the
. gathering Of the cotton crop.
III A TWO THOUSAND acre water
melon patch. as proposed BY Harry
Landa Of New Braunfels. to be cor
ducted on his lands near the Willacy-
Cameron county. means more in a
transportation way than would APP
rear at first glance.
a carload u watermelons Of or
dinary size. means about 700 or 500
melons. Under ordinary conditions
"n. acre Of ground viii produce some
thing like carload oi melons, if
our enformation il right.
" the crop comes right, there Will
be something like 200o carloads of
watermclons on that little patch"
There shouldn't be a shortage Of
"ariy watermelons next season If the
Landa patch does right well III the
matter of production and quality
/. TWO HANDSOME new churches
4 have been completed IN Brownsville
in the past few months, one Of them
nearing completion
The American Presbyterian church
has received a bcquest Of sll. 800
from the estate Of the late Mrs. Hen
rietta King Of Kingsville.
Which presaees the early con
struction ~ another new church. the
! Presbytcrians. who own property *
Ninth ana Elizabeth. having ac-
qu red property ON Levee street.
And the Church Of the Adven.
also tha Central Christian church.
have had plans ia mind for sometime
for the erection of new churches.
IN addition ~ an of which Mexi-
can Catholics have raised something
like $4,000 for the erection Of the
third bu lding of that church, to go
up in Victoria Colonia.
CHURCHES AND schools. like
smokastacks ard motors, are 4 great
factor in The building Of q desirable