Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-14
i'm OUR
VALLEY

proximately So miles of concrete
paving.
And he points out: That's the
largest mileage Of any county in
Texas, and we have jfst started"
This better than SO miles is ap-
proximately one-fourth of the mile
age Of concrete paving that will
eventually be in use in Cameron
county under the $6,000,o00 bond
issue.
All precincts In the county are
benefitting under the present con-
tracts.
And future work will simply add
and add feeder roads in a network Of
highways that will hook up every
where in the county, benefitting the
farmers and the tourists.
OF course, there will be one or
more roads to the coast. Should be
two or three such roads.
Los ANGELES began to get real
development when 1t hooked up the
city with the beaches and harbors.
Over at st. Petersburg, Fla, they
have no farming section worth men
tioning.
But they have developed a real
city, based on tourist traffic and
tourist trade.
The beaches is the way they did
Il. They made them available 10 the
motorist at all seasons.
They built roads and causeways
and things. They spent millions on
millions of dollars in public improve
ments, works calculated to make the
city more and more attractive 20 the
visitor.
That st. Petersburg story may be
repeated here. Can be.
In 1912 there was little worth
while at st. Petersburg, Fla. That
was fifteen years ago. The city had
its great growth between 1920 and
1925.
GENERAL w. W. ATTERBURY,
president Of one Of the nations
greatest railway systems-the Penn
sylvania will visit Brownsville Sun
day.
He will see the Lower Rio Grande
Valley. He will be accompanied by
III. r. Stafford, the Missouri Pacific
chief in Texas.
Eastern railways are said to be
averse TO making attractive tourist
rates to the Southwest to the Valley.
Fear il will reduce their eastern
population.
Perhaps General Attebury will see
things in a different light insofar as
his line is concerned after he has
seen Texas and the part OF 1.-THE
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
THE CORPUS CHRISTI naviga-
tion district is to ask bond issue
Of sl,5o0,O00 for the purpose OF
enlarging port facilities.
Corpus Christi this summer has
had a taste Of salt water traffic
and wants more of the same kind.
Colonel Robert Driscoll. had of
the port, points TO a saving OF some
s360.O00 to farmers this year on
cotton shipments as an argument for
more port facilities.
That's about as good an argument
as one could want, il seems.
The Valley has been hearing about
this Corpus Christi port. At that
Mercedes meeting Friday night they
will talk deep and deeper water.
The government engineers demand
that the Valley show its interest by
getting up tonnage for sixteen feet
OF waite, before the engineers will
show any interest in thirty feet OF
water.
That's a natural stand for the
engineers.
It's up to the Valley TO complete
and use what II has.
Red snapper industry itself would
make sixteen feet Of water worth
while.
THE OCTOBER number Of Monty's
Monthly, of which Mrs. ]. c. Mont
gomery OF Brownsville is the pub
Usher. Is noteworthy in two ways.
1t is enlarged rs to page size. and
has a changed front cover design.
Also, il IL the "Sehool Number" Of
Monty's. and not only carries num-
srous photographs Of Valley schools,
but n great deal Of information con-
cerning the schools.
IL impresses one more than ever
that there is, possibly. no agrieul-
tural section anywhere in the United
States, or the world for that matter,
that surpasses the Valley in the
matter Of school buildings. grounds
and facilities.
NOT A CIRCUS on the horizon
for the Valley this falll
Not o circus has made It's appear
ance anywhere south Of Houston and
San Antonio. IL the highways and
the newspapers are to be depended
upon.
The Valley 10 normally kind and
liberal with eireuses.
IL hopes some day TO grow import
ant enough to attract the bigges, on
the road.
BROWNSVILLE two fire pump
ers scheduled 90 visit Edinburg to-
day to take part in fire preven-
tion parade.
These new bumpers are the last
word in motored fire equipment.
And they put to shame the pump
or that was bought in 1915 but which
Il still doing business at the same
old stand, and 10 likely 70 continue
30 for some time to come. Because
it's, efficient.
UAc0 MAN III ECsTEn