Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-27
FINAL
EDITION
I'm OUR
VALLEY :

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THE VALLEY harbor committee
learns that recommendations VIII pe
made soon for the permanent I'M
provement Of Brazos Santiago har-
hor.
Expenditure by the government
under such a plan, would amount 20
about $500 600. Which would be
in addition to the better than Q half
million already expended.
However. the Valley would have 70
put UP something like souo'VoV LOT
inner channel development.
Which the Valley certainly couid
well afford to do II II is given
harbor developed along standard
harbor engineering lines.
Probably means that the forma-
ton Of n navigation district. just a.
Houston, Corpus Christi and other
harbor developments have done.
IN the meantime the Valley y
jubilant over the prospects for early
harbor action.
Congressman John n. Garner has
been urging quick action IN submit
ting recommendation.
He has been quoted as saying:
"Get me q favorable recommendation
BY the engineers-I'll get the money.
WRITING about the Lower Rio
Grande Valley. the Odessa, Mo-,
Democrat says
Sixteen years ago John Blackwell
and Ike Robinson Of Odessa owned
land within three miles OF Harlin-
gen, and they thought so little Of
IL that they left IL ard came to
Missouri. The farm they left is now
quite valuable"
There are porbably many John
BlackweIIs and Ike Robinsons over
the country.
The Valley twenty years ago. fif-
teen years ago, even ten years ago,
was far from being the section that
IL is today.
Irrigation was handicapped. Trans
portation was terrible, there were no
good roads, few good schools. no
high power lines. no natural gas
and marketing the Valleys products
was an almost impossible job.
It's different story today, as one
can see.
lt'z. too bad about those who were
forred 70 give up the fight for
lack 6f capital or for other reasons
The Tandys stuck. 80 did the
Volzs, the Rustebergs. the Morrisons.
and scores Of others. And behind
them have come scores Of Others
who are making Valley soil and eli
mate and water and transportation
and power and other facilities pav
them returns.
THIS SEEMS to be convention
week with vim, in Brownsville.
Some two hundred women OF the
West Texas Presbvtery gathering
here for a meeting.
And later in the week something
like a thousand school teachers and
school executives from al over South
Texas.
And in addition twenty-five to fifty
railway executives. members Of the
Southwest Railway Development as
Eociation. an organization Of traffic
and passenger executives.
SAYS H. =. Stafford, executive
vice president of the Missouri Pa
cific Lines. IN a communication to
The Herald:
Please allow me 70 express my
personal appreciation 20 YOU for the
cooperation given the Missouri Pa
cific Lines and the Texas State De-
partment Of Health in helping TO
make the Texas Better Health Spe-
cial an outstanding success.
For the efforts put forth By You
and your friends I am indeed CRATE
ful. for without your assistance we
could never have obtained such
splendid results from this movement
which. we hope. will stimulate H.
creased interest in the 12O commun;
ties visited by the train in the i'm
rrovcment of local health eondi-
tons"
AN EXTRAORDINARY construc-
ticn event is taking place on Eliza
beth street. BrownsviIle's principal
business street.
IL is the razing of a thrse-story
building only Is years old to make
way for another three-story struc-
tare built along modern lines.
IL Is 70 he the Brownsville home
of $. H. kress & CO. Y viii cost
about 100000.
Further up the street. block.
seabury, George & Taylor. Browns
vile law firm. are razing the old
Presbyterian church structure pre-
paratory 70 erecting a modern two
story business building. with q foun-
dation to carry three more stories.
4 sS5o,o0o high school building 4