Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-07-21
I'm OUR
VALLEY

CAPITAL THAT is asked 10 buiid
cold storages for farm products
wants TO know thar there Is a rea-
sonable certainty Of sufficient bus
mess TO make fair return on the
invested capital.
IL II pats 5000, 900 into cold
storage to serve one community or
) dlstrict,Ait must know. if il is 10
live, that there is sufficient acre
age to grow enough surplus To 20
into storage.
IL must have permanently rented
space sufficient to take care of all
us overhead in seasons when the
= current market is so lively that
little II anything is sent into stor-
age.
There are many angles To the
cold storage proposition.
The time is coming when there
will be cold storages to serve all
sections Of the Valley.
Particularly are they needed for
the grapefruit crop. il this section
Is % supply its markets for a
greater period than the three
months in which the stuff is per
mitted to remain on trees.
WRITING TO THE Herald from
= up, in Highland. III, G. A. Stowe. who
owns land near Brownsville. saws:
"Am pleased 10 note Brownsville
is to have two fine new theatres.
but would il not be better for
Brownsville and vicinity If il were a
canning factory and a cold storage
rlant.
'The writer believes il would be q
better investment from n financial
standpoint for the stockholders and
we know the community needs can
ming factories and cold storage
plants.
"A canning plant would give the
farmer a better market for his fruit
and vegetables and employment t.
many men and women. The cold
storage plant would also mean better
prices for the farmer and better
fruits and vegetables. and cheaper as
well for Brownsville.
TO succeed and pay their taxes
for all the fine improvements they
ere getting the farmers must have
help in the way Of markets fer his
products.
"Our temperature is about the
same as yours minus the cool gulf
breezss. Crops here are very small
and poor owing to the excessive
moisture in the early spring months
The writer has faith in the Valley
and believes IL has s-great future"
SEVERAL YEARS ago well
ranaged canring factory operator
from upstate established a canning
fgctory in Brownsville.
The equipment and machinery in.
he proceeded TO contract with farm
ers to buy enough of their stuff at
prices he could pay 10 assure opera
tion Of the plant.
Many farmers are said TO have
signed UP.
The season happened 10 be good
one in the matter Of prices for
fresh vegetables.
The prices seem 10 have been
Alghtly better than those which the
cannery man agreed 10 pay.
SO his contracting farmers sold all
their fresh stuff n the higher
rrices, and disrcgardcd the appeals
Of their cannery man 10 let him
have enough stuff to operate the
cannery.
The answer TO that sort Of a sit
uation il the one made by the late
W r. Scott. Southern Pacific Of
ficiai. who said:
"The farmers should establish and
operate community canneries. They
will suppiy their own labor. When
the season is propitious for market
ing fresh vegetables. they can shut
down their canneries II they want 10.
Privately operated canneries mus,
fun a certain percentage Of each
year IL they are to exist
Some day all these things viii be
worked out. II may be nearer than
= most Of US think.
A NEW INDUSTRY in the Valley,
lately established q few miles out
side Of Brownsville by the Gulf Con
crete Pipe Company Of Houston. re-
ceives a $4,000 contract 10 supply
sewer pipe for storm and sanitary
sewers in Brownsville.
which is pretty good start on
for any new industry.
Still more significant. II means
that Brownsville is about 10 launch
a more extensive storm and sanitary
sewer system.
Something like sixteen miles of
this sort of work 70 be done.
More adequate drainage means
better city in which TO live.
And more paving also means n
more liveable city.
Work on 1875 blocks Of paving is
row we'll underway
A CAMERON COUNTY delegation
20 the state highway commission
returns with announcement that the
state likely will extend aid to com
rlete the concrete highway from al