Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-15
I'm OUR
VALLEY
ANOTHER STEP UPWARD in the

ANOTHER STEP UPWARD in the
proposed development Of Brszos San
6ago harbor.
The house committee on rivers and
harbors approves the recommendation
Of the engineers for appropriation OF
81, 100000 for jetty and other con-
struetion.
The amount will be included in
the present rivers and harbors bill.
This bill will come up for vote be-
fore the close Of the present ses-
sion, unless something happens to
prevent.
All Of which shows how, with ms-
ehine-like precision, everything has
been moving forward IN behalf OF
the harbor project.
Now those in charge OF the eiti-
zens' efforts are laying plans for
further campaign. A campaign %
bring about new appropriations that
will carry the depth Of the proposed
harbor to thirty feet of water.
The late Commodore Louis Cooo-
lini always eontended that thirty feet
Of water was the correct depth TOT
BraEos Santiago harbor.
II will come.
THE BOARD of county commits
sioners calls for bids for something
like thirty miles Of paved roads.
This paving 10 be done under the
recent sale Of 100000 worth OF
bonds.
Bids call for construction IN three
precincts. Brownsville precinct paw
ing held up pending outcome OF iiti-
cation.
Different widths Of paving under
the new call. One to be nine-foot
feeder road. Goes north from Los
Fresnos along the old Alice road.
The San Benito precinct proposes
a sixteen foot road from Bluetown
10 Santa Maria.
This road is along the old Military
road. Will connect near Santa
Maria with a Hidalgo county road.
One day IL will be n major road.
extending from Brownsville on TO
Mercedes. II probably viii bear a
large amount OF traffic in the not
distant future. " should be paved
10 a width Of eighteen feet.
THE RIO GRANDE is swollen and
swelling.
Comes from three. four. five and
even seven inch rains along its CEN
eral and upper central water shed.
Waters rushing down from both
Mexican and American sides.
A bit early in the season for the
high river.
Nav give some OF the ficodway
construction Its first opportunity 20
do its stuff"
The Rio Grande has been going
through these periodic floods Tor
ages on ages.
It's silt bearing waters spread out
over the coast country, at the mouth
In that way, through the ages, Il
developed the Lower Rio Grande
Valley. This silt is many hundreds
Of feet deep.
Which is the reason why II - so
fertile.
ANOTHER BRIDGE is TO span the
Rio Grande.
This bridge is 20 span the river
south Of Weslaco, at Progresso.
Not so many years ago, previous
70 1910, there was no bridge across
the Rio Grande east Of Laredo.
The first bridge east Of Laredo
was erected at Brownsville-the in
ternstional structure jointly owned
hv the National Lines Of Mexico and
the Missouri Pacific.
II was seventeen years before the
-ext bridge was built-that at Hi
dalgo. A suspension bridge.
Then came n bridge at Roma, and
now one is to 20 up few miles from
weslaco.
And a second bridge at Browns
Vile Is being completed. This y
giant steel structure.
SAYS RUTH SHANNON in the
Donna News;
"There's a century plant blooming
,sar McAllen. II is we'll worth see
in~. The century plant flourishes
N the Valley. but they are seldom
seen in blossom. In fact. IL is gen
orally believed that they bloom only
once in a century.
"The stalk which bears the bloom
thrusts itself pole-like from the cen
ter Of the parent plant high into
the air and queer-looking flowers
are borne on the horizontal arms
IN conventional regularity.
at isn't a particularly beautiful
flower but II is strange and intense
~ interesting"
II does seem like a century be-
tween blooms OF the century plant.
but As a matter Of fact IL is usually
lust a few years.
Mrs. Ralph Warden Of Brownsville
has a century plant at her home
that blossomed about a year ago.
Something like seven years after its
previous bloom.
TIE FIRST SHIPMENT Of eanta-
,ounes out OF the Valley this year
j reported from Weslacc.
Grown by a japanese farmer.
Cantaloupes appeared on the city
market in Brownsville a few days
ago.
A little late for the first Of this de-
licious melon. Usually shows up
around the middle Of April.