Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-07

the Boca Chica road we are spending
S4.5o0 per mile, putting In concrete
structures and creosoted wood
bridges. We arc proceeding with n
work Just as fast as is consisteH
with efficien Engineering Our eZ
rineers advise Us this road shouA
settle from ten TO eighteen months
| will not be a party to wasting TIL
proceeds Of t~hirty-year bonds OF 8
unsettled dump. IL those who ard
seeking an injunction can get com1
petcnt engineers 10 advise otherwisey
Commissioner Bell and / would likey
20 hear il.
Should Pave Border Road.
at would be criminal negligence
on the part of the commissioners
court to delay paving the border
highway while waiting for this
grade to settle, especially in view of
the fact that we will have ample
money to pave both roads with sew
eral hundred th6S dollars addi-
tional.
THE resolution passed by the court
contained the following:
"'tbl From Brownsville to Point
Isabel by shortest practicable connec-
tion from Brownsville-Boca Chica
road. when completed
"We were advised at the time we
entered this order and before We
would enter it that the word 'prac-
ticable' meant what il said. and
that such road should be laid off by
the county engineers on a prac-
ticable route. IL was my view that
the preferred route. providing same
was practicable. was TO extend from
the north bend of the river below
the Drive ranch to Point Isabel. We
caused an investigation to be made
which disclosed that this route was
not practicable. IL was decided that
the Paroles Line road, being the
second road in Group ?. also onplied
with the second road in Group i, and
the Paroles Line was paved.
There seems TO be a great deal of
misunderstanding about the Paroles
Line road. To my mind il fully COM
plies with the designation of the sec
ond road in Group 1. I want TO state
X was not the road I preferred 10
pave first in the Brownsville pre-
cinct.
Injunction Threatened.
when we were getting
advertise for our lettiO1 ~ hem
Der s, there were No groups in
Brownsville who We not agreed.
Land owners on (military road. so
| am informed, employed attorneys to
enjoin US if we started 70 pave any
part Of the designations in Group ]
before the military road was paved.
The other group threatened to enjoin
US if " military road was paved
','i s.: A. g.: 81 q tim, ; zgies
would have resulted disastrously 10
the road program. This was done by
our agreeing to pave the Paroles
Line road first. which was done.
Commissioner Bell and myself made
a gentleman's agreement that the
military road sho:ld come next while
the grade on the 5oca Chica road was
settling.
Had all the water districts that
have not converted to reclamation
districts made the necessary change
and in the absence Of an injunction.
we would have let the contract for
having the military road on January
26. and the road would have been
completed before the potato crop
began TO move in volume. 1T is we'll
-nown that our flood control levees
re new and the pahlic interest. e.
eciallv in the Brownsville section.
'7mands that VIC he in position to
'eet any emergency. We need the
Military road paved in order that IL a
freak comes in the new levees men
and materials can be rushed immedi.
ctely to the scene. II Will now be i'm
possible TO pave this before the
spring floods.