Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-12
I'M OUR
ALLEY

vegetables and fruits shipped from
he Lower Rio Crande Valley We'd
.lesday.
Mere than one-third Of the ship
ients cabbage. Some thirty cars of
sixed stuff. including cabbage.
Shows how a fairly good price for
'getables peps up the loading Of
a. cucks, the delivery to the loading
tations.
The Valley is off to a flying start
Tor the shipping season of 1928.
More than $500 carloads out so
far. and the season hardly begun.
Five or six years ago that was the
total for a whole year in the Valley.
Different now. The Valley should
dispose of about 10000 carloads Of
vegetables and fruits this season.
which will not end until the last
days of June.
Every branch of business in the
Valley is feeling the effect Of the
upward trend.
NOT the lesst important Of the
political events in the Lower Rio
Grsnde Valley every year is the wa
ter board election.
In one water district election Tues
day more than 600 votes we're cast,
indicating the interest that the farm
ers or landowners take in the con-
duct Of the affairs OF the districts.
Water improvement districts have
been electing biennially, which makes
possible a complete change Of man
agement every election.
A complete change is often dan
gerous.
The water conservation districts,
into which most of the water i'm
provement districts have be e n
changed. will elect annually, but
there will always be holdovers. That
means someone will always be on
the board more or less o-perienced
in the business OF the di-trict.
Tuesday elections returned virtual
" all the old boards. Which would
seem to reflect confidence in the
management of the various dis
tricts.
THOSE Valley motorists who
4 rarely venture from the state high
way in their trips up and down the
Valley, are largely ignorant of some
other really splendid development.
Try out a trip along the Southern
Pacific from Edinburg to Harlingen.
Beautiful citrus fruit groves.
Acres on acres of vegetable crops
on the road to maturity just now.
And some towns that are new but
having = splendid growth. Like Elsa,
Primera, and others.
When Hidalgo county has com
pleted highways in that section, ac-
CELEBRATED growth seems certain.
ONE of these days that highway
along the Rio Grande from the west
end Of the Valley to Laredo will be
a fact.
Gaps now mainly in Zapsta and
Webb counties and in the western
part Of Starr county.
There is now paved road be
tween San Antonio and Laredo, and
road along the river will afford
tourists one route into the Valley
and another out.
No one likes 70 double hack on
road if il may be avoided
The road from Rsymondville 70
Kingsville is another Of that kind.
Gap is all in Kennedy county.
Up in Zapats county they have
srroyos, normally dry. that must be
crossed. II the weather has been
wet. il is virtually impossible, One
day il will be different
A FIRE DEPARTMENT accident
Wednesday should be . warning 10
motorists 70 draw up - rne curb
Immediately when they hear alarms
or fire equipment sirens.
|. With two or three high speed
jumpers rushing around. hook and
ladder truck and hose wagons. not
70 mention the chiefs car. the city
electricians car. q police car and a
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