Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-12
i'm OUR
VALLEY


near Combes TO the Willacy county
line. to a connection with the Will
lacy county pavement.
Also wants assistance from the
state on the construction Of highway
No. 100 from the end Of the pave
ment ore mile east Of Los Fresnos
to Point Isabel.
And would like help in the widen
ing of the pavement connecting San
Benito and Harlingen, or else in
the construction Of a parallel road
two miles east Of the present high
way.
In either case there would be re-
lief from the dense traffic that is
becoming more and more dense.
IN THE MEANTIME Cameron
county commissioners are laying
plans for the issuance Of an addi-
tional $1,5O0,0O0 in bonds out Of
the $6,000.0OO voted in January, 1927
Two million dollars have been cx-
pended on the construction OF high
ways in the county, and contracts
awarded under the third million are
now being carried out.
Point is being reached where the
results or the $4,000, 900 are becom-
ing easily visible all over the coun-
~.
II may be three years before the
entire amount Of S6.000.000 is ex-
pended. and by that time the coun-
tvs valuations certainly will have
increased so largely that the addi-
tional taxes will not be sufficiently
burdensome on the average taxpayer
as to be noticed.
II may be somewhat different with
the large taxpayers. however.
LADIES WERE admitted free az
a bulifight at Reynosa the other
day. when accompanied BY one paid
admission.
Which sounds very much like an
artifice or some Years ago in the
baseball world in Texas.
In those days the ladies were not
inclined to attend baseball games.
The free admission plan was start
ed with the idea OF encouraging
their interest in the professional
game.
After few years the plan was
discarded. II had worked success
fully, and now a considerable per-
centage of the paid admissions are
accounted for through attendance Of
the ladies
Perhaps the plan will succeed a.
we'll in the matter Of bullfights.
And perhaps not.
SPEAKING Of bullfights, several
wears ago when the corrida was an
occasional event in Matamoros. a
movement was started on the Amer
lean side to secure legislative action
to stop advertising the events on
the American side.
The ring in Matamoros burned
down. bullfights necessarily stopped
and presumably the movement died
with them.
LEADERS in the movement for
development Of a harbor at Brazos
Santiago have virtually abandoned
the twO-county navigation district
plan.
On the basis that Hidalgo county,
with greater valuations than Cam
eron. would bear most Of the bur-
den Of taxes, which, they point out,
would be unfair.
But they now believe that il will
be possible to form Hidalgo county
into a separate district. should il
80 desire. and tax IL more in ac-
cordance with direct benefits to be
received through nearby water
transportation.
However Hidalgo county will be
sounded out on both ideas, in the
expectation that the coCnty favors
cooperation on some equable basis.
IT'S DIFFICULT, il not impos-
sible, to convince a dyed-in-the-wool
Valley-ite that California Is super
ior to the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
There's Robert Rhodes of Donna,
for example.
Rhodes has just returned to Donna
after a stay Of several months in
California.
The Donna News quotes him as
observing that:
~California is a beautiful coun-
try. We liked Santa Barbara espc-
cially. but in my opinion the Magic
Valley has southern California beat
en- in may ways"
FARM & RANCH. Dallas. discuss
ing the Valley potato campaign in
The Herald. says:
with 100 carloads Of potatoes Of
good quality stored in warehouse
in the Rio Grande Valley. Califor-
nin potatoes were in demand at a
prime premium by merchants and
consumers during the month Of July,
according TO The Brownsville Her
aid. These potatoes were offered
almost at cost OF production, and
vet they would not move In in
vestigating the situation. The Her
aid consulted one Of tire best chefs
st a leading hotel 70 learn IL the
California product was Of q super
lor quality. This chef answered that
with one exception. the Valley pro-
duct was the best, but that the Cali
fornia potato was better baker
"The Herald takes 70 task the
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