Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-05-15
FINAL
I'm OUR
VALLEY

ANOTHER STEP UPWARD in the
proposed development of Brazos San
tiago harbor.
The house committee on rivers and
harbors approves the recommendation
of the engineers for appropriation Of
s1,o0o,0oo for jetty and other con-
struction.
The amount will be included in
the present rivers and harbors bill
This bill will come up for vote oe-
fore the close Of the present ses-
sion. unless something happens To
prevent.
All of which shows how, with ma
chine-like precision, everything mas
been moving forward in behalf OF
the harbor project.
Now those in charge OF the eiti-
zens' efforts are laying plans Tor a
further campaign. A campaign %
bring about new appropriations that
will carry the depth of the proposed
harbor to thirty fee. of water.
The late Commodore Louis Coho-
lini always contended that thirty feet
of water was the correct depth for
Brazos Santiago harbor.
IL will come.
THE BOARD OF county commits
sioners calls for bids for something
like thirty miles Of paved roads.
This paving TO 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
20 Santa Maria.
This road is along the old Military
road. Will connect near Santa
Y Maria with a Hidalgo county road.
One day II will be a major road.
extending from Brownsville on to
Mercedes. It probably will bear a
large amount Of traffic in the not
distant future. II should be paved
10 width Of eighteen feet.
THE RIO GRANDE is swollen and
swelling.
Comes from three, four, five and
even seven inch rains along its GEN.
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 f1oodway
construction its first opportunity to
"do its stuff"
The Rio Grande has been going
through these periodic floods for
ages on ages.
Its silt bearing waters spread out
over the coast country, at the mouth
In that way, through the ages, II
developed the Lower Rio Grande
Valley. This silt Is many hundreds
of feet deep.
which is the reason why II Is so
fertile.
ANOTHER BRIDGE is TO span the
Rio Grande.
This bridge is 20 span the river
south of weslaeo. at Progresso.
Not so many years ago, previous
TO 1910. there was no bridge across
the Rio Grande east Of Laredo.
The first bridge east OF Laredo
was erected at Brownsville-the in
ternational structure Jointly owned
by the National Lines Of Mexico and
the Missouri Pacific.
It was seventeen years before the
next bridge was built-that at Hi
dalro. A suspension bridge.
Then came a bridge at Roma. and
now one is TO 20 up few miles from
weslaco.
And a second bridge at Browns
willie is being completed. This is a
giant steel structure.
SAYS RUTH SHANNON in the
h Donna News:
"There's a century plant blooming
near McAllen. II is well worth see
ing. The century plant flourishes
IN the Valley. but they are seldom
seenHn blossom. In fact. il Is gen.
crafty believed that they bloom only
once in n 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 IL is strange and intense
" interesting"
II does seem like a century be-
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