Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-03-02

prs ago worknien starting
gnd, erected his frame
by, VI 2nen. starting at the
rc doing just tie reverse; they
Azing the same ,buildfrg.
1olbsless the structure sas paid
Tor itself time and time again.
Now 1t is being torn dowr.
Shortly in its place thee win
grow up modern two-stsry with
basement business and a1artment
building, so constructed tiat three
stories may be added later II need
cd.
Nearly dozen buildings that were
erected in Brownsville from forty
to sixty years ago are being re laced
By modern structures.
WHEN MRS. FERGUSON VIZ gov,
crnor Of Texas she vetoed AZ APP
preparation to fight the citrus eank-
crs
Now we have II back. The house
&. passed measure restoring hetight.
and appropriating s6250 for the
work.
f~& The Texas legislature is aways
&ry kind 70 the Lower Rio G'ande
Valley. when the governor viii per-
NIT il to be. And Governor Moody
is so inclined.
The legislature knows. for cx-
ample, that the development that
has been in progress in the Valley
Tor the past twenty years has
enormously increased the resources
of the state. And it is the purpose
OF the legislature to continue to en-
courage that development.
THAT WAS A PRETTY good thing
for the legislature 70 dc. of couIse.
But now comes the Legislature
with a rather queer stunt.
There are something like 3,000,-
900 citrus fruit trees in Cameron,
Hidalgo and Willacy countieS-the
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
And the Texas senate votes TO
authorize the A. 4 ". college to
"establish an experiment station in
on experiments looking TO the bet
terment Of the citrus and nut crops-" J"
And do you know what counties
are designated as "citrus belt?"
Here they are. Read EN- and pom
der:
ATASCoSA.
McMULLEN.
FRO.
LASkLLE.
DIMMIT
IN DEZAvAiA.
MAVERICK.
Ann yesterday il was recorded in
thisNcolumn that fifty 5-year-cld
tbearingl citrus fruit trees had been
sent from the Lower Rio Grand-
Valley 20 one Of the above named
counties Wen give you just one
guess rs to what that means
! INNNO~ EMILY. The Herald has
started controversy about corn
the grain, not the liquid.
Carried story the ether day "a
the effect that the earliest corn on
record had reached San Benito.
Now comes Harvey c. Stiles
nrowMsvi!,e planter. with the an
noufcemcnt that growers down
the coast have been deliver
! ing roasting ears for some weeks.
As a matter of fact. what is early
, eorn-down here in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley We have seen IL ai
the Brownsville city market almost
regularly since two or three weeks
before Christmas.
DAVID Y. TIAXLER. for % years
In the real estate and development:
hnsiness IT Greensboro. Sorth Caro-
lima. has transferred his s~tivities tc
the Lever Rio Grnndc Valley.
he is going 10 sell Olmiso.
~ Scent : couple of years in Florida
I'd prettv good sized part in de-
lnnment there.
"Thinrs seem 20 have started diff
erentlv here" Traxler will tell Won
cover in Florida they first bui!l
the towns. and the agricultural ac-
tivity started later. If .he land could
= NJ. made 20 produce. Here you have
developed the farms, but the towns
do not seem to have developed in
pronortion.
you've been keeping Il all Sc
crct from the real estate men," he
goes on to saw. when ther find you
out---well. things viii begin TO
7 happen"
e. L. JESSUP. travelling toward
Jerusalem. is much pcrturbed.
Aboard n Transatlantic liner. he
found them Serving a horrible grape
fruit.
This fruit came. he WIS told. from
some place in the West Indies.
Upon which Mr.. Jessup regretted
that he had not carried along with
him crate or two of Lower Rio
Grande Valley grapefruit
The passengers would have en-
ipyed their trip much more. he be-
/ lieved. IL the grapefruit had beer,
the Valley kind. AT least, he would.
Mr.. Iessup, writing home. advances
IL though that the Lower Rio
Aade Valley should make arrange
to supply some of the steam
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