Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-01-18

I'm O u r
VALLEY

MOkF NEN lOMNS wing pro-
NOTED and projected throughout the
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Additional railroad construction
and additional development respon-
siblc.
Elsa and Edcouch are being pro-
moted on the Edinburg- Harlingen
branch Of the Southern Pacific.
North Of Donna. the town Of La
Blance will soon be opened, and
south Of Donna the townsite of FL
Cato.
At Barreda station, the town OF
Barreda is being cut up into city
lots, with entrance gates, and so on.
East of Brownsville. there is St
George, on the Rio Grande.
North Of Brownsville Is Olmito.
All will be located in prospering
farm communities.
THE RATIO OF two and onc-half
cars Of fruits and vegetables being
shipped out % the Valley at this
time as compared with the lg25-l926
figures, ~ continuing.
The figure for the present sea-
son Is now well over 2200 cars. with
from so 10 100 refrigeratsfs being
placed daily at various sidings over
tho Valley.
II looks like Big shipping rec
ord for :he year. the weather and
markets permitting.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley is
truly the nations market basket in
the season when other parts Of the
country are covered with snow and
slush and all Of tbs discomforts
that 80 with disagreeable weather.
THE FACT THAT the receivers or
the W. F. Stewart Land Company,
which hit the sky back In 1871. have
declared a fifty per cent dividend.
: with pro1rccts Of more later, re-
fleets the good management which
the properties have had under re-
ceivcrship. and also reflects the
great increase In value Of Valley
lands.
Creditors Of the company, which
include large number Of land
owners IN the Mercedes -Wesleco-
Edinburg district. are the bcne-
ficiaries in a distribution Of more
than Si.O0O.O00. either in lands or
cash.
Conrad l.. Mann OF Kansas City,
was the original receiver. and X. r
Cieagcr of Brownsville anc;llary. At
the present time, Mr. Crcager is re-
ceiver for the company's Valley
properties.
GOSH" SAID A Herald executive
on hearing the news The company
owed me- about 5000 back in 1920,
and settled for $500. Wish now
had held that claim. Can't ever tell,
can yaug"
LIKE CARRYING coal 20 New
castle" says the Corpus Christi
Caller Of the shipment Of fifteen
carloads Of palms from the Valley
TO California.
Commenting editorially. The Call
or says:
THE Lower Rio Grandc Valley
has outclassed the chap who car
Ned Goals TO Newcastle. According
to The Brownsville Herald, Pharr
nursery will make second large
shipment Of palm trees 70 Floriad.
"Thc shipment will consist Of fif-
teen solid carloads Of trees. and
will move TO several different parts
Of Florida, principally in the storm
trickcn sections. Last fall the same
] ompany shipped eight carloads of
" I'm trees 20 the same state.
= "Florida il frequently referred 70
Sss the palm state A few critics
have remarked. rather causticaliy.
that Il hould he known as the itch
inr palm state But let that pass; i
isn't n charitable thought, anyway.
Recently a shipment 81 10000
cans N citrus fruits went % Cali
fornia from the VALLEY. California
Is known as the state 81 citrus
fruits
"Palms 70 Florida and citrus fruit
40 California, Surely. carrying Goals
20 Newcastle Is logical thins to
TO do"
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