Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-01
TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE
Foreign Advertising Representatives
Mexico and the Valley Port

Hardly q day passes without some new phase Of
We wide influence the construction of n 3O-fOot har-
Dor At Poin. Isabel would exert in connection with the
development Of South Texas and northern Mexico COM
Ing TO notice. Industrialists, agricultural developers,
transportation companies, ars all watching the situa-
sicn closely. and there can be no question that when
. So-foot harbor Is definitely assured the announce
Msnt Will be followed by an era of unprecedented de-
velopment throughout the entire region tributary to
the port And the region tributary to the port is not
bound on the north by the sandhills and the Rio
Crande on the south. II extends throughout all Of
Sossh Texas. the Mexican states Of Tamaulipas. Nuevo
Leon and chihuahua south almost to the Mexican CAPT
tai
Interest in the port project throughout northeast
eFn Mexico is keen. Mexican economists are fully
aware that development Of the immense natural re-
suroees Of the states Of Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas and
CnihuahHa can never be effected unless cheap transport
tation Is provided. and they are also aware that a har-
Dor At Point Isabel would offer them the outlet de-
sired.
Last week an engineer Of the Mexican reclamation
service was in the Valley TO investigate irrigation sys-
tens and practices and also to ascertain the status Of
the Valleys port project. He was deeply interested
IN the port The development of the Don Martin pro-
1eet on the Rio Saldado south Of Nuevo Laredo, which
viii eventually irrigate 10000 acres. will depend to no
small extent upon the opening Of the Valley port,
which would assure the Mexican farmers a profitable
outlet for their production. Under present transporta-
tion conditions the farmers on the project could not
hope Ia reach profitable foreign markets. They would
be compelled to depend entirely upon the domestic
markets, ard the Mexican domestic market is too lin
tied TO assure the success Of the project.
Practically none Of the production from the Don
Martin project would come into competition with that
OF the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The Mexican farn-
es will devote most of their land to staples, and sucn
vegetables and fruit as they produce would practically
all come onto the market after the Valley crop has been
shipped. Their tonnage would merely serve to equalize
shipments through the port, and extend by two months
the season for heavy shipments of agricultural pro-
ducts.
However. the tonnage from the Don Martin pro-
jeet would be small in comparison with that winch
would come from the mining districts around Mon
tsTrey and the great agricultural regions Of northern
Tamaulipas. Business leaders of northern Mexico as
seFt that within five years after a 30-foot port is COM
pleted. a greater tonnage Of Mexican products and
minerals would be flowing through the Valley port
than through any port in the southern republic.
There is no port project in the United States with
greater personalities than the proposed Valley port at
Point Isabel. Serving n vast territory, now almost un-
developed. IL should eventually become the gateway for
n greater tonnage and a greater variety Of products
than any pert on the Gulf coast with the possible ex-
eeption Of Houston or Galveston.