Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-04-14
/ N OUR
VALLEY
T is a quite ambitious bonding
project. this plan OF the count.


itizens' road committee TO vote upon
nd issue as needed and as valuations
'ermit, $6,000.0O0 worth of bonds for
obstruction of feeder and other high
says.
Finley Ewing Of Harlingen, chair
sian of the committee, has laid down
that he believes TO be good public
1olicy, in the issuance of the bonds.
.fe does not favor the simultaneous
ISSUANCE and sale of the entire issue.
IT is his idea, and that of the general
committee, that the bonds should be
issued as valuations increase in or
fer that the tax rate may not be
increased.
Which will no doubt receive gen.
raj support. If the county can
Iuild, in the course Of three or four
.ears. S6.000.000 worth of roads on
decreased valuations rather than on
,creased taxes it will be a very fine
ling.
In that period virtually every de-
-eloped part Of the county would have
"a first-class road. Access to shipping
boints and to the various towns
would be possible in all sorts Of
weather..
Most of the undeveloped irrigable
lands of the county should be under
cultivation by that time. Lands now
assessed at SIS or $40 an acre will
have gone to $50 or more an acre.
The business affairs Of Cameron
county seem to require most Of the
time OF the county judge, who in
addition to being chairman of the
commissioners court is also Judge OF
the county court at law and probate
judge.
Cameron county is large enough,
one would think, to support full
time county judge to look after the
county's business affairs, and anoth-
er judgcw no would be judge Of the
county court at law and Judge or the
probate court.
With a great bond issue looming,
il can be easily seen that most or the
time of the county judge and the
commissioners will be consumed in
overseeing the work.
The lawyers Of the county know
best the condition Of the county court
dockets. The county judge himself,
being hard and willing worker,
probably would not suggest the thing
himself.
Or perhaps the county bar associa-
!. tion already has considered this mat
ter and Is prepared TO make suggcs-
tions.
The Cameron county commissioners
tomorrow will accept or reject the
bids for dirt work on the proposed
Boca Chica road. from the east end
of FL Jardin to the coast.
II seems that it will not be possi-
BILE at this time TO construct n per
manent county road. There Is some
talk Of toll road from the east end
of FL Jardn TO the coast, built by
private capital, but as n last resort.
Colonel Sam Robertson has made
the statement that he would build a
toll road. If the county or no one else
built IT,
Originally, it was the idea that a
road district might be formed and
road built to the coast through bonds.
That was the plan when the county
commissioners first advertised ror
bids for dirt work and permanent
structures. Then the Archer county
decision "broke up the playhouse
nd he Is-tr n
least until the Archer county matter
was Strengthened out.
In the meantime there continues a
demand for a road to the coass. col
onel Robertson's Ocean beach orfve-
way should have an outlet at the
south end. aud on to Brownsville, and
up the river.
The Brownsville chamber of COM
merce. lead by President Tucker and
Manager Richardson. considers the
possibility Of organizing a toll road
company, capital stock S50.0G0. and
issuing and selling bonds. the road
to he turned over TO the county when
tolls have been sufficient to take up
the Indebtedness. Contractors are
hoW StthinE TO determine Nnetuel
such bonds could be marketed.
On Lake Olmito, which will be made
more beautiful by AL Parker and as
sociates, are to be found the largest
natural growth of trees in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley. 1t is said.
Also on the banks of that lake are
found the finest natural picnic
grounds in the Valley.
Some of the trees are 80 inches
In diameter. They tower to go and
40 feet, we are told. They include
ash, tepejuache. elm and others.
The Valley was supposed to be
more or less devoid of great trees.
Lake Olmito's scenery bellies that
supposition.
Only hunters and the owners of
the property, and perhaps few 9TH
ers have suspected the existence Of
such trees. Others in the Valley have
never had occasion to penetrate that
district
All of US will see more of il under