Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-12
!? GIRL FLYING OVER OCEAN
I'm OUR
VALLEY

THE VALLEY IS to have q hand
IN this matter of water rights laws
about which West Texas has been in
such furore for weeks past.
At San Benito Tuesday there was
a meeting.
The outcome Of this meeting was
the appointment Of a committee Of
Valley citizens who will attend a
statewide meeting in Dallas on Mon
day next.
This committee consists Of d. w.
Glasscock of Mercedes, Walter G..
Weaver of Donna, K. b. Rentfro Of
Brownsville, Frank S. Robertson Of
San Benito and Clay Eyerhard Of
Pharr.
w. Z. Anderson Of San Benito viii
represent the South Texas Chamber
of Commerce.
The other men will represent the
Valley water districts.
VALLEY WATER transportation
interests will meet Friday night at
Mercedes.
Propose to set afoot plans for a
campaign for thirty feet of water at
,Brazos de Santiago Pass.
Chambers Of commerce up and
down the line and other civic or
CARNATIONS and individuals inter-
ested in deep water for the Valley
will be represented.
There is still much work to be
done before Brazos harbor is ready
leven for vessels that can travel IN
sixteen feet Of water.
Then there are local water and
channel ambitions, at Harlingen, at
Brownsville and at San Benito.
The meeting at Mercedes. il is
announced, will devote itself to the
Laguna Madre situation as it re-
lates to Brazos Pass.
The federal government has ex-
pended more than $500, 1000 at Brazos
Santiago Pass.
The Valley needs 70 cash in on
that expenditure without further de-
lay.
THREE NEW industrial enter
prises are reported in the making
for Brownsville.
They have to do with structural
work and with excess farm pro-
ducts.
But announcements are not yet
ready to be made. Promoters wish
first to get all preliminary details
disposed of.
WELL, NEWS dispatches settle
another Valley problem.
State Highway Department men
declare there is no law compelling
burro drawn vehicles to carry tail
lights.
When all the time uppity automo-
bile owners have believed that every
vehicle should carry tail lights, in
cluding horse drawn and burro drawn
vehicles.
The complaint went up 70 Aus
tin from Cameron county.
Auto owners, it is presumed, car
ried the question up. Wondered, no
doubt, why their lives should be
placed in danger by fifty and sixty
mile automobiles running into mile
and-a-half-an-hour bufro drawn
carts.
SO the burro owning and riding
folks are laughing up their sleeves.
If you want to drive at sixty and
get hurt by running into u.s." they
assert, don't blame us. We don't
have 10 cary tail lights"
So that's that.
MANAGER SIMPSON Of tho
Brownsville telephone exchange re-
ports that nineteen additions to the
telephone list were recorded in
September.
Hariingen was next with sixteen.
And telephone books everywhere
In the Valley are growing in size.
Brownsville Is shooting at oO00
stations. Harlingen is Thooting al
1000.
AT LEAST FIVE hundred bankers
OF the nation. who will assemble at
Houston in annual convention, will
have reason 20 know about the
Lower Rio Grsnde Valley.
Houston bankers gave an order "a
John II. Shary at Mission for 500
packages Of fruit. Twelve TO the
package.
Mr.. Shary passed the order on 20
Charles Saladino at Mercedes who
has the package needed for the oc-
casion.
The fruit will be a souvenir for
the bankers.
Many of them will then come 20
know, for the first time, that Crane
fruit production in Texas is a real
ity.
And Florida, which admits that
POSSIBLY Texas fruit is as good
rs FloTida's, will hear some of her
banker opinions.
SAN ANTONIO SENDS out n
news dispatch that flood is feared
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
There was n warning several days
ago Of possible flood conditions.
Which was n good preparedness
warning.
The river went bankfull, but didn't
10 over.
Which Is. Of course. satisfactory 10
Valley residents.
The Rio Grande, by the way, has
been rather docile during 1927.
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