Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-03-27
TRINITY FARMS
COMPANY ALSO
TAKES BONDS
North Texas Firm Is
Successful Bidder
On Project Which
Is to Drain Tract

The board Of directors of Cameron
county water Improvement district
No. Fl Jardin) Saturday let q con
tract for their drainage project 10
the Trinity Farms Construction Com
pany for S559.322.62 The contractors
also Obligated themselves 10 take the
present issue Of 100000 IN bonds.
voted under the old law. AZ 80 and
accrued interest. or To take an equal
amount Of bonds voted under the wa
ter control and Improvement district
law az the same price and terms.
This leaves the matter strictly up
TO the voters of the district in an
election TO be called fer that pur-
pose.
IF they prefer that the district
change 70 water control and inn
provemont district and issue cf $780,
600 Of BONDS under Section 3. Article
10, which does not affect the bonding
capacity Of the county, il is their
privilege 10 do so. says II. l.. Yates.
att crney for the district.
The board Of directors have been
working for weeks on cooperative
scheme whereby they could give the
people Of the district this ortion.
The arrangement was made much
easier by the fact that the present
attorney general approves bonds is-
sued under the water control and i'm
provement district law while the
former attorney general refused 20
do so. The supreme court has re-
Gently approved the new law.
Sew law Will Help
III II the voters Of Fl Jardin carry 4
bond issue under the new law. there
viii be left outstanding only S554. 900
of bonds of the district under real
estate valuation Of S6,795.000 which
consumes percentage Of only So
leaving the county percentage cf
l6-2 per cent on the lands in the dis
trict, against which, however, drain
age district No. ? will consume about
DIT per cent. leaving the county a
total percentage of approximately
1912 which On real estate valua-
tiun of S25. 5.0ne. 900 would permit the
county ~ issue more than $4,000. 600
without any increase in valuations. II
the other lands in the county are left
IN as good condition as to bonding
capacity as the lands in FL Jardin
district. In any event 10 will permit
the county 20 issue nearly 81 100000
more than il would otherwise be able
20 10 III the bends voted under the
old law were issued and sold AZ this
time and 20 double its road program
for the current year.
" The board Of directors feels that
1t has secured an exceptionally low
contract on the work. The contract
on the dirt work is 1873 cents per
cubic yard cheaper than tha engi-
nccr's estimate and the contract for
the tile and structures is about 15
pcr cent less than the engineers es-
innate.
Start Right Away
The work proceeds AT once pend
ing the proposed election which will
occasion no delay whatever and will
be completed IA less than two
years.
over 100000 cubic yards # dirt
work already has been done hy n
large drcdEe formerly belonging III
Callahan 4 Crawford M San Benito
This work was done on " cooperative
basis and almost eight miles W one
canal emptying into the lake north
east of the tract has been completed
The dredge was purchased by the dis
trict frcm Callahan & Crawford and
then sold % the Trinity Farms Con-
struction Company which will begin
using II on Monday in constructing
the dryinage project.
Callahan Il Crawford were second
lowest bidders for the project. An
lcontinUed on page two.)