Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-31
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SOME INCLINATION apparently

SOME INCLINATION apparently
4te question govern tent mems citrus
fruit tree census in .he Lower Rio
Grande Valley.
Which there should not be. The
the figures are lower than they were
supposed to be.
Estimates have always been made
on the number Of trees set out, or
sold, with no allowance for re-
placements.
Indications now are that replace
ments have been much larger than
they were supposed to be, leaving
an actual count by r. A. Hoidale, in
charge of government fruit fly war,
of 3,41s,157 trees.
The average planting is about
seventy trees to the ac@. Which
shows about 10000 acres of Valley
land devgted to this product. With
much Of it devoted to other crops
during the early stages Of the tree
growth.
GENERAL LANSING H. BEACH,
U. S. A., retired, former heel Of the
board Of army engineers, may be
employed by the Arroyo Colorado
navigation district 10 make a port
development survey.
General Beach is a. memtsr of the
international Water Commission. the
United States-Mexico joint body on
division of the waters of the Rio
Grande.
The Arroyo district wants a sur
~ey to determine what it will cost
TO develop a sixteen foot channel in
the Arroyo Colorado.
The former army officer is con-
sidering the situation.
THE RECENT primary election in
Cameron county was notable by
reason of the numerous tightly con-
tested races.
Over at Point Isabel, for example,
133 voters split between two candi-
dates for constable, giving one &C
and the other 81. The official count
will be necessary.
The official count, which comes
Saturday, will be the only definite
answer rs TO who will be in the run
off for sheriff with G. A. Manahan.
There are IL votes between S. NJ.
Jester and W. Frank Brown with
Brown having the larger figu-~
II required the final big box to
determine the situation between
Carlton and Kleiber, and Kleiber
gained the day.
EVEN so. the vote in Cameron
county seems n have been much
lighter than expected.
The total voting strength. includ-
ing exemptions, is around 1000. But
fifty per cent Of that number went
20 the polls.
Perhaps the folks interested in
cotton production just at this time
preferred to stay with theix picking
and their ginning rather than to
take time off to vote.
wILLACY COUNTY, banner onion
producing county Of the Lower Rio
Grsnde Valley, plans to put out
1900 acres Of the product for the
next season.
In the meantime interest of farm
srs in Cameron and Hids;go co.n-
Ties runs to cabbage. Seed bed time
has arrived for the early crop, ma
turing in November.
An ex-Canadisn farmer now liv-
ing in the Valley, has s complaint.
Back in Canada" he said. I'VE
plant one crop a year-vheat-and
things are easy for US in winter.
We don't have TO work, except to
look after the chores.
Down here, as soon as we get
finished with one crop. we have to
begin preparations for another.
Something to do in the field all the
year"
But he hasn't gone back 70 Canada.
KIWANIS CLUB Of Brownsville
has been campaigning among bus
iness hanses in Brownsville,
Urging them 10 consider erecting
electric signs. Point out that IL
will brighten the business district
and help business BY increasing
window shopping"
Point out thES the city is about
% give a three-cent rate for semi
public lighting. which means elec.
tric signs and display windows.
Just how that will be worked out.
BY separate meters or otherwise. has
not been determined.
HOUSTON CHRONICLE comments
rs follows On the race Of John n.
Garner:
aside from the victory for Dan
Moody. the most welcome verdict
rendered Saturday probably was that
by the Valley citizens and their
neighbors in voting confidence in
John Garner. He will be the demo-
cratic leader ~ the next congress.
whether as speaker or the house or
as chief of the minority.
"He has been opposed strongly BY
sut-of-state influences. but aprar-
emily these made little impression
on his home people. Texas as
whole certainly has reason TO COM
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