Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-08
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NEWS that General Jadwin pro-
poses to proceed with the improve
ment of Brazos Santiago harbor,
lends additional interest 70 the visit
in the Valley tomorrow Of officer
enoissers Of the harbor board.
Theyw POUR every sectiOn-u -uIs -
development, to get a first hand view
Of the source and destination Of
tonnage moving in and out Of this
section.
After which they will visit the
harbor sites at Point Isabel VIII
make a trip over TO Laguna Madre,
and view the improvements that
have been made at the ends of
Brazos and Padre Islands.
The purpose OF this visit IS TO lay
the ground work Tor an additional
depth for Il e harbOr. Harbor inter-
ests here are asking for thirty feet
Of water at this point.
There is this about il; At Gal
fifty feet Of water.
At Corpus Christi il is about
twenty-six miles to that depth.
At Brazos Santiago it is about
three miles to fifty feet OF water.
POSSIBILITIES Of organizing a
road district in the Brownsville COM
missioner's precinct in the event the
Harlingen ari San Benito water dis
tricts do not see fit to change to
water conservation districts, and
continue to be discussed.
Point out that il is possible for
Brownsville to vote about Sl.500,000
in bonds to carry out the road pre-
gram in the precinct.
OF course. such a plan should con-
template carrying the river road to
the Hidalgo county line. near Santa
Maria, to meet the Hidalgo road that
will terminate there.
That would be beyond the limits
OF the Brownsville precinct, but al
that river country should have 9
road. Il is among the best land to
be found IN the Valley.
AMERICAN LEGION posts Of the
Valley arranging for side trip to
the Valley from the national conven-
tion TO be held in San Antonio.
Hope to bring about 10000 to 15,-
900 Of the legionnaires to this Sec
tion.
Among the legion men are some
$4,000 men who saw service in this
section back IL 1916 and 1917. Ger.
tainly large portion of them will
welcome an opportunity to visit the
section where they had their first
field experience.
Mostly they didn't think much oi
the Valley IN those days. BY this
time they will have changed their
names.
Recall q "shirt tail" parade
through Brownsville streets By
boys from Iowa.
"We want to go home" they
chanted. as they marched. Mostly
they didn't, not just then. For il
q few months many of them were
on their ways overseas.
HARLINGEN didn't anticipate :
confusion OF dates when it invited
the Rotary clubs OF the forty-sev
enth district and the postmasters OF
Texas TO meet there.
But confusion developed and Har.
lingen found two conventions or
her hands scheduled for the same
days.
SO Brownsville comes TO the res.
cue and VIII handle the postmaster:
convention, in the latter part OF
April.
Postmaster r. L. CHM of Browns.
vile, vice president Of the state
association, advises that about three
hundred usually attended the meet
ings. Which can be easily handled
in Brownsville.
In addition to which, in March
Brownsville is TO have the South
Texas teachers, who will come here
some 700 10 500 strong.
The need for q city auditorium to
handle these and similar gatherings
seems to be growing.
THE UNITED STATES postal de.
partment air nail service has in
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