Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-06-01
I'm OUR
VALLEY

: The other day it remarked that a
billboard painting concern had been
unable to keep up with the growth
of the Valley. as indicated in a sign
on a Brownsville business building
relating Brownsville. Population
10000" when the figure is nearer
10000.
Later this column mentioned some
OF the building activities Of Valley
banks.
Now comes a good friend. W. Il.
Sellers, vice-president of the First
National Bank, with charge that
several names were omitted from the
list
And so they were.
The Edinburg State Bank & Trust
Company a few months ago com
pleted handsome bank building.
The First National Bank at Ia
Feria Is erecting a building. The
First State Bank at Mission is about
to erect a new building.
Others which were mentioned as
having completed buildings, or are
erecting them, were the Farmers
State at San Benito. the HidalRo
County State at Mercedes and the
State National at Brownsville.
KEEP YOUR EYES on the coast
al development in Cameron county.
Things are going on there.
The landscape is changing daily at
Point Isabel, as was remarked in
this column yesterday.
Going farther up the coast. Holly
Beach Is also alive with activity.
And a little further up, on the
Boyd tract. Ksnaas City interests are
saving wood. This is 10000 acre
tract about which little will be heard
1t is said. until it has been placed in
shane for agriculture. Canals and
everything.
There is still plenty Of good farm
land left in the southern and east
ern parts of Cameron county.
Watch it hop.
AND UP IN HIDALGO county
things are far from quiet
For one thing. they are about to
spring big road development
Whether it will be countrywide
project, or whether it will be di-
vided into district activities is as
vet funce-triq.
Up ut Mission deal is underway
for the purchase by the farmers Of
the plant and canals of the United
Irrigation Company, with prospect Of
further development If the deal goes
through.
Also. near Mission. Marvin Good
win and associates are busily en-
gagged in developing 10000 acre
tract. No land is beisg sold there
until the project is ready for water
and cultivation.
And activity has been constant III
the dryland section north Of Edin-
burg and east toward Raymondville
IL was energized by railroad CON
struction.
And there is great building ac-
tivity at Mercedes, McAllen. Edin-
burg, Mission and other parts.
THE SPRING vegetable crop in
the Valley has been about wound up.
The United States Markets Blu
reau has closed its office in Browns
Vile. Manager Googe has gone 70
other shipping centers for the sum
mer crops.
Commission men and shippers who
spend several months Of the year il
the Valley are travelling to Jackson
vile, to Idaho. to Colorado. They are
following the shipping seasons.
And soon well have with US the
cotton buyers. They will begin ar
irving before the none Of June has
closed. By July 10. they will be
thick all around US.
Two or three months Of that ac-
tivity. and then the fall vegetable
crop will begin. "a show itself. and
along with II the citrus fruit crop.
the first of szeable proportions.
And 1t promises 1000 cars or more,
unless something happens TO inter
fere.
In the meantime. quarantine
threatens. That's not serious. but il
means exceptional care in the handl-
ing Of the crop.
Clean up the orchards as 20 old
ripe fruits. Get rid OF them it,
little trouble. there is no loss. and
IL means much TO the welfare Of the
Valley.
PLEASANT WINDS from the coast
these days when the sun u shining
brightly.
More pleasant. more refreshing
when one reads Of the 100 and up
temperatures being recorded in
North Texas and some section Of
West Texas.
And here comes A. X. BLACK Of
Dickinson Company with a
cold.
lie has just completed handsome
two-story residence in Los Ebanos.
moved in Tuesday. slept in \ south
room Tuesday night. and caught the
cold.
Charges II was the cold winds
from the coast and the sudden
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