Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-07-13
i'm OUR
VALLEY

HOW MANY. MANY millions Of
ollsrs being spent in the Lover Rio
Irande Valley at this time-how
pany in prospect?
A cotton crop coming on. II may
be all the crop that the Valley
|uld like to have. Still, il will
ing the Valley from $4,000, 900 to
L. .Oo0. 900.
- Then the Southern Pacific Is
spending a couple Of million in ex-
tending from Harlingen to Browns
willie.
The Rio Grande Valley Gas Com
pany Is spending at least $4,000. .O0(
Tor labor alone in laying gas mains
from the Webb-Jim Hogg fields to
the Valley, and in the Valley towns
Cameron and Hidalgo counties are
continuing to spend money on the
flood control works. At least another
million Of the original $4,000, 900 left
" spend.
Cameron. county is getting lined
out to spead s2.000.000 Of its S6,0OO,-
900 road bond issue.
The Missouri Pacific is spending
at, least 100000 in extending the
Spiderweb road east out of San Be
nito-
HIDALCO COUNTY Il preparing
to. call an election 70 vote on 3d.
100000 road bond issue.
The City of Brownsville is work
ing out a million dollar paving pro-
gram. with dirt work we'll under
way.
IL Is preparing to build a 1886. 900
school and announces plans for a
bond election TO vote S500.0O0 for a
city hall. auditorium and library
structure.
Out at Point Isabel hundreds of
thousands of dollars being spent in
developing new town.
At Holly Beach large amount Of
money is being expended on SIM
liar purpose.
At Harlingen more than 100000 is
being spent at this time in a new
paving schedule.
AT SAN HENITO a large amount
of new paving is being put in.
Az Mercedes large amounts are
being spent in public and private
construction.
Same thing al McAllen.
There isn't room in this column 10
outline everything that is being
done.
These are the high spots.
Just tell your friends that $780,
100000 is the amount being spent
and in sight TO be spent in the
Valley in the next year and a half.
. Where else, in a community Of
10000 will you find similar pro-
gram?
You name it.
ALL THAT does not include the
enormous amount of private CON
struction going on throughout the
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
As a matter of fact, things have
not let up in the least.
There is more scheduled to be
than ever before in a single year.
The above list of known projects
makes a fact of that statement.
And. certainly. there will be other
things to come up in the next twelve
months.
Not so long ago a visitor. after
touring the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley. said:
"Your farming community is won
derfully well developed. But your
towns do not measure up to your
agricultural development.f
The towns are having grand
awakening.
EDWARD ]. SNYDER. who works
in Tampico but who chooses to call
Brownsville home. made an airpkane
flight up from Tampico the other
day.
Several weeks ago he bought some
property at Point isabel.
Recently he ordered il sold.
His airplane flight over Point Isa
bel the other day after witnessing
the work going on there. caused him
10 change his mind.
He has withdrawn his lots from
the market.
Coast development is hhving a
meaning all its own.
It's going on ut Isabel and at
Holly Beach. And at some OF those
outlying districts that have long
been known as ranches.
Watch the coast
The thing that will make IL Is
roads The more roads TO the coast
TIE more things will hum. Paved
roads. we mean. Connect Harlingen
with the coast; connect San Benito
with the coast: connect Brownsville
with the coast.
Brownsville is perhaps in a most
fortunate position in its relation TO
the nearest beach. That's at Boca
Chira, the only mainland surf beach
on the Texas gulf coast
And thus hus III 49,,