Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-11-06
81 DEAD IN COAST FLOOD
I'm OUR
VALLEY

HARLTNCEN GOES 70 the polls
Tuesday.
Voters there will determine wheth-
err the city electric light and water
properties will be sold to the Cen
tral Light a Power Company and
thus become a part Of the highly de-
Iveloped Valley transmission lines.
A cash offer Of sl,250-o00 il made
for the combined properties-the
electric utility and the water utility.
In return for which the buying
concern will put on the tax rolls
both the water and electric proper
ties.
Will also bring into the city lin
It's the extensive ice manufacturing
business Of the company, adding that
10 the tax rolls.
& In addition to which the buyer
promises a 100-carload capacity cold
storage plant, and 70 incorporate
+ bat in its taxable property On the
arlingen rolls.
rs for the city, should II decide 70
the properties, which have at
ped their great value in the past
hee years, il will be enabled 20
Re All but about $3.50, 900 OF its
btedness and reduce its tax rate
1. or thereabouts, proponents Of
issue point out.
r. TRAVEL business Is good,
reports from the Valley Airways.
Harlingen.
gan business August 10, last.
r. October 10 the first passenger
carried from Harlingcn 20 San
nio.
70 October 25 over $50 pas
sers had been carried. Long and
n hops totalIed well over $4,000
rs in eleven weeks, without acci-
rips 10 Mississippi and Chicago
eduled.
What will a similar set OF figures
Ysveal in just few years.
THE CORPUS CHRISTI Caller
b Fonders, editorially:
Next week q special trial, dupli-
eating in equipment the Sunset
Limited. viii be run from Houston 10
Brownsville by the Southern Pacific.
mally opening passenger service
n the s. y. TO the Valley mctrop-
Freight service has been avail
e for several days.
The special train. rs a train,
be interesting 20 the people OF
IN Texas. As an illustration Of
way in which South Texas has
reloped within the last few years.
is awe-inspiring. II has been a
ghty short time since people ques-
oned the wisdom Of building even
me railroad into the Valley. Reve-
#ucs. they said. would be 50 infin-
,tesimal that operation could not
continue for more than a few months
at best. II has been but a few years
since we began 70 marvel at the
growth Of tonnage from the Valley
~ the long trains OF products Of the
fertile land.
THERE ARE ANY number az men
living in Corpus Christi today who
hughed NJ the belief that a rail-
ID between Corpus Christi and the
ley might eventually become a
ing proposition. Why. South Tex
kxas n wilderness: the trains
a run through n virtual desert;
would he S@ghtencd to death
he putting monsters.
n that. Of course. has passed.
lie believe in South Texas today
strongly than ever before. But
of them. We imagine. can pic
the South Texas az a genera
hence. Grayheards will recall the
back in 1927, they believe
n the first passenger train was
from Houston 70 Brownsville
the s. II. lines. and the jubila-
n that accompanied that achieve
nt. When that time comes. per-
a. the $. X. will traverse q gar
all the way from Houston q the
Of Texas. Big cities will be along
route. Ports which are new to-
Ny will he bearing n big share o.
nations foreign trade.
Yes. the arrival az that special
In az Brownsville will be a biz
bnt. Fix the date well IN your
nd. You'll want 10 refer "a Il some
Ay."
LORING A. SCHUYLER. editor-in-
chief Of the Country Gentleman. one
AZ the Curtis publications. has visit
"a the Lower Rio Grande Valley
and gone.
Made . qrick trin down fron,
KinrsviIle Friday. got AS far south
a San Bcnito. ard hurried to North
Texas.
Mr.. Schuler. being accompanied
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