Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-07-06
I'm OUR
VALLEY

WELCOME. TAX Collectors of
Texasi
Brownsville and the Lower Rio
Grande Valley of Texas are proud
that they are given the opportunity
to meet with you and to entertain
you.
Your immediate host is James J.
Fox, now serving his fourth term as
tax collector Of Cameron county.
And cooperating with HIM are all
the members of the official staff Of
Cameron county.
Also officials Of the adjoining
counties. like o. En- Jones, of Hi
dalgo county, Sheriff-Tax Collector
Snow Of Willacy county and Tax Col
lector Guerra of Starr county.
They all want you to feel at
home.
Ard IL there happens to be any
thing you want and don't see. ask
for IL. IL can be found-and will be-
A WILLACY COUNTY man, living
where some back waters from the
recent rise in the Rio Grande. are
causing some discomfort, went in
to his chicken coop as a relief COM
mittee, and instead of chickens
found two catfish.
At least. so declares a dispatch
from Willacy county.
Just another quirk in the make
up of cat family-feline or pisca-
toriai.
THE WESLACO NEWS announces
the result of a census of Weslaco,
taken under the direction OF Man
ager L. Z. Bailey of the Weslaco
Chamber of Commerce.
The result gives Weslaco a pop
ulation of 6207.
An increase of about li40., or
about twenty per cent, over the
figure of a year ago, says the news.
that where Weslaco now stands
was brush acreage as recently as
1919.
Nowhere else in the United States
today is there to be found spot
that is developing as rapidly as the
Valley, towns and farming sections.
c. w. VAN LAW, engineer re-
siding in Harlingen. who came TO the
Valley about a year ago after hav-
ing spent many years in mining in
Latin America, will prepare the
tonnage survey which will be pre-
scented to General G. W. GoethaIs.
General Goethals expects that this
work will be completed by October,
at which time he will personally
visit the Valley to check the sur
vey and to give the whole situation
the "once-over."
Facts and figures will determine
the matter of extending the intra-
coastal canal from Corpus Christi
TO Point Isabel and up the Arroyo
COLORADO to the Missouri Pacific
bridge at Harlingen.
THE BROWNSVILLE junior col
lge will enter its second year at the
beginning of the next school term.
Dean 6. A. Caldwell is now en-
deavoring to interest students who
are not familiar with the oppor
tunities offered by the local college.
IL will have both a freshman and
sophomore class the coming year.
The course of study will then be
enlarged.
And by the time another school
year arrives. the college and CEN
trail high school will be housed in
larger and better equipped build
ing.
Two years of college work ut
home should mean much in the mat
ter Of the cost Of securing n college
education. And after these two
years are completed. there Is less
time 10 spend away from home.
NEWS COMES that Mexico pro-
poses 10 develop and irrigste some
thing like 100000 acres lying west
and southwest Of Matamoros.
Recalls the il-fated Sautena pro-
ject Of fifteen years ago.
Canals were built in the vicinity
Of Rio Bravo. about fifty miles up
the river form Matameros.
Pumping nachinery-was purchased
Eighty thousand acres were to be
developed for farming.
The revolution came along. Rio
Bravo was for time an army camp
instead Of 4 camp of land develop
ment laborers.
The army moved on east. The irri-
cation machinery remained. And 50
far as we know. is there yet; but
doubtless obsolete.
II was 10 have been a great pro-
ject. Revolution ruined its future.
SMALL SECTIONS of Willaey
county report presence Of back wa
f-rS from the recent rise in the Rio
Grande.
A condition that viii not obtain
crce that great north floodway is
completed.
Az present the south levee IL be-
ing built The north lsvee will then
be started.
The comparatively small amount
Of water that passed through the
fioodway west Of Mercedes was in
cIined 70 pile up once Il left the
confinement Of the leves. There Is
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