Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-02
FINAL
EDITION
I'm OUR
VALLEY

1927.
Six thousand cars averaged pos
sibIy twenty tons to the car. Which
means that the Valley vegetable and
fruit lands yielded some 10000 tons
of products more than il did last
year.
All of which goes to prove that
the Valley certainly can grow the
stuff.
And the limit Of what i. can do
is just whatever the market can or
will pay for and consume.
Next year the Valley might in
crease its loadings to $4,000 cars.
But before il produces $4,000 cars
!. Il should find a market for it, TO
@1make that production yield a pro-
fit.
EARLY BALES of cotton continue
make their appearance through
% the Valley. from Brownsville to
~ o. Grande City.
hey are coming forward with
le frequency.
NOR ! few days bales of cotton will
in TO be novelty no longer.
D"Records Of daily ginnings will be-
gin to show up.
Reports are coming through that
picking on a large scale will start
the latter part of this week and
during next week.
Gins will incrase their daily runs.
More gins will begin to operate, and
within twenty days every cotton
gin in the Valley should be under
full schedule.
Watch things hum this month in
the Valley.
WILLACY COUNTY lets a contract
for construction Of 1916 miles of
paved road west from Raymondville
10 a point near Iargill, which is
just over the Hidalgo county line.
So many road contracts being
awarded in the Valley these days,
so many bond issues for the pur-
pose, it is beginning TO be almost
impossible to keep track Of il.
That Willacy contract will Sc
curely tie-in the Harding 50.O00-acre
development west Of Raymondville,
with the city OF Ray1nondville.
There remains only the problem
Of the north road through kennedy
county.
And reports are that this road
will yet be built.
:. THE TEXAS Bankers association
dead or alive" bandit reward has
been revised.
To get the reward the bandit
must be produced as the result of
q daylight robbery.
The association has come to the
conclusion that a night robbery is
one that is provided for through
night wstchmen.
The association also should be
sure that Newspaper photographers
are there, also reporters, to prop
erly record the hold-up. No reward
should be paid without an absolute,
y unquestionable record Of the per-
''rmanee.
DISCUSSING the tomato tariff
hearings being held in Washington,
"Think," in the san Antonio Ex-
press, says:
Lower Rio Grande Valley tomato
growers. ably represented at Wash
ington by J. r. Bell of San Benito,
are the only Texas producers Of this
crop directly interested in the re-
cent hearings on the question Of a
higher tariff. which Florida growers
seek But all Texas growers Of win
! ter vegetables and fruits are con
rerned with one phase Of the issue
N that az an adequate tariff to protect
American producers against foreign
competition.
ARIZONA and California we're rep
resented by spokesmen who opposed
4 higher tariff on tomatoes. Cali
fornia's plea that raising the tariff
\ would make the -ost of Mexican
/. tomatoes TO housewives in winter
prohibitive. is all the more interest
ing as California housewives pay
extra for many fruits and vegetables
which can be grown n Texas. This
Is not because az any tariff. but be-
cause of CALIFORNIA; ON restrictive
laws. Throwing down the bars 70
II welcome the Mexican tomatoes.
while shutting out Lower Rio Grande
Valley grapefruit. puts the Califor-
MIA argument for low tsriff on the
plea Of cost 10 housewives rather
in the discard.
"ARIZONA'S ARGUMENT for low
Il er tariff may have been predicated
On the desire for a lesser cost 70
II housewives: but there il 4 lurking
Fl possibility that Nogales' business in
II tomsto-imports-the principal COM
rsrce IL has to transact-nay have
something 70 do with Arizona's oppo-
IS sition. In the argument for denying
\ tariff-increase. that states spokes-
mani. B. Bristol Of the Nogales
VI Chamber of Commerce-asserted that
ia aAmerican farmers should not over
II look the fact that Mexico buys more
from the United States than does
-. United States from Mexico This
tContinued on page eight)