Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-28
hin OUR
VALLEY Y
\ FAhAULIPAS proposes to build a
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AhAULIPAS proposes TO build a
ID, nine meters in width, from
npico TO Victoria.
The road. as projected. will 60 on
the United States border.
robably The northern terminus
re az Mstamogos.
here it would meet state high
No. 12. also tins coast road that
ntually will extend through Will
y and Kennedy counties, and on to
Norprs Christi and Houston.
II IN the meantime Brownsville Is
&lso interested in a movement for
building 4 highway from Monterrey
&o the border at Roma, where a good
load will be found, leading all the
ay down the Valley and on to the
bast.
Also. in the meantime. Brownsville
I'D Matamoros are awaiting word
bat they have been selected as
rmini for New York TO Mexico City
mails.
kpon the land, the air and the sea
be used TO give this section
ections with Tampico.
During January, February and
rch, the first quarter Of 1928, 226
les born in Cameron county were
istered with officials under the
birth regulations.
he initial cost Of the modern baby
|ends very much on .he means Of
se most directly interested.
They may stand you anywhere
fom 500 to $1,000. At one time. it
said, the initial cost was s25.
rices have gone up, ir babies as
n most everything else.
But taking $500 per each, to strike
In average, Cameron county has an
#nvestment in babies. for one quar-
ter of year. totallIng $4,000.
For the next eighteen or twenty
years these babies are going to be
a source OF considerable expense.
Their upkeep is going to be much
more than the initial investment.
But after that will be source Of
income, to themselves and TO the
community.
A half million dollars worth Of
babies annually in the Valley is GER
tain to bring dividends in another
score of years.
THE WILLACY County Chronicle,
Lyford. says:
after the torrential rains Of the
last there weeks all that is needed
for bumper cotton and feed crop
Is lots Of warm, dry weather.
"A trip through the country. view
ing crops and talking TO farmers is
ff1ly inspirational."
Those crops up IN Willacy county,
at least those viewed by passengers
on trains, or motorists, speak even
louder than the farmers.
They tell story Of coming pros
perity. Fine, tall cotton plants ev-
erywhere. Not too tall. At the
height they should be. 70 produce
Lsquares. then blooms. then bolls. then
&nowy white flakes, and then jing-
pg pockets.
There's one thing about cotton
p: It creates general prosperity
much cash.
rhe cotton chopper gets his. 50
s the picker, the farmer. the cot
gin worker. the cotton buyer, the
roads, and others.
After which a portion Of the money
ds its way 10 the merchant, 20 the
gtomobile man, to the reduction Of
he mortgage, or other form Of
Enhancing.
II All that's needed now is the right
Tort of weather. The market seems
H. be taking care of itself.
HERE'S something else from the
Rfyford paper. Picked up from the
New York Times, which commented
on the Valley as follows, according
10 the Chronicle:
There seems to he one farming
country that can care for itself and
prosper. The cities Of the Valley are
enterrrising and thoroughly mod
ern, with fine roadways, expensive
schools and public buildings, and as
the prosperity or the region Is nl-
most wholly dependant on the pro-
ducts of the soil, it has to be said
that there seems to be one farm
ing country that can care for IT,
self"
BY which the Times means 10 in
fer. no doubt. that .he Lower Rio
Grande Valley OF Texas was not 80
terribly concerned over the fact that
President Coolidge vetoed the farm
relief bill.
STRANGE. those IDEAS that news
paper readers in Houston and San
Antonio get from reading about TIE
Rio Grande when it's "on ram
page"
Last week there was high water.
The river seems to have gone to
bank full. perhaps went over at a
few scattering places.
Yet in Houston and San Antonio.
after reading the papers. they seem
70 conclude that the whole country
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