Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-02
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JALLEY

sibly twenty tons TO the car. Which
means that the Valley vegetable and
fruit lands yielded some 10000 tons
of products more than il did last
\ year.
4 All Of which goes TO prove that
the Valley certainly can grow the
stuff.
And the limit of what it can do
Us just whatever the market can or
will pay for and consume.
Next year the Valley might in
crease its losdings to $4,000 cars.
But before it produces 10000 cars
II should find a market for it, TO
make that production yield a pro-
fit.
EARLY BALES Of cotton continue
to make their appearance through
out the Valley. from Brownsville to
Rio Grande City.
They are coming forward with
fFnore frequency.
In few days bales Of cotton will
begin TO be a novelty no longer.
Recordssof daily ginnings will be-
gin 70 show up.
Reports are coming through that
picking on a large scale will start
the latter part Of this week and
during next week.
Gins will incrase their daily runs.
More gins will begin to operate, and
within twenty days every cotton
gin in the Valley should be under
full schedule.
Watch things hum this month in
the Valley.
WILLACY COUNTY lets contract
for construction of 14.6 miles of
1 paved road west from Raymondville
20 a point near Hsrgill, which is
Just over the Hidalgo county line.
So many road contracts being
awarded in the Valley these Gays.
50 many bond issues for the pur-
pose, il is beginning to be almost
impossible to keep track Of IT,
VIII That Willacy contract will Sc
I rurely tie-in the Harding 50.000-acre
\ development west Of Raymondville.
Z with the city Of Raynondville.
There remains only the problem
Df the north road through Kennedy
county.
And reports are that this road
will yet be built.
THE TEXAS Bankers association
dead or alive" bandit reward has
been revised.
To get the reward the bandit
must be produced as the result Of
!. daylight robbery.
Tie association has come TO the
onclusion that a night robbery is
Ste that is provided for through
1t watchmen.
Sue association also should be
that newspaper photographers
there, also reporters, TO prop
sh record the hold-up. No reward
nnhld be paid without an absolute.
Fashionable record Of the per-
tPnee.
neslCUssING the tomato tariff
nnngs being held in Washington.
Pink" in the San Antonio Ex-
IS, says;
Slower Rio Grande Valley tomato
nEers. ably represented at Wash
on by J. z. Bell Of San Benito.
the only Texas producers Of this
~ directly interested in the re-
IT hearings on the question Of a
igher tariff. which Florida growers
seek. But all Texas growers Of win
ter vegetables and fruits are con-
lcerned with one phase Of the issue
that Of an adequate tariff 70 protect
american producers against foreign
competition.
"Arizona and Californis we're rep
resented by spokesmen who opposed
higher tariff on tomatoes. Cali
forniz's plea that raising the tariff
would make the cost of Mexican
omatoes TO housewives in winter
arohibitive, is all the more interest
ng as California housewives pay
xtra for many fruits and vegetables
hich can be grown N Texas. This
I not because Of any tariff, but be-
ause Of CALIFORNIA; own restrictive
n laws. Throwing down the bars 70
NJ welcome the Mexican tomatoes.
while shutting out Lower Rio Grande
VALLEY grapefruit. puts the Califor-
MIA argument for low tsriff on the
plea Of cost 70 housewives rather
.iE the discard.
"ARIZONA'S ARGUMENT for low
er tariff may have been predicated
on the desire for q lesser cost to
housewives; but there Is a lurking
possibility that Nogales business in
tomato-imports-the principal COM
merce IL has TO transact-mav have
something to do with Arizona's oppo-
sition. In the argument for denvinr
tariff-increase. that states smokes
mani. B. Bristol OF the Nogales
J Chamber of Commerce-asserted that
Y american farmers should not over
look the fact that Mexico buys more
from the United States than does
khe United States from Mexico This
tugrests that department of com
herce reports do not travel as far
< Nogales. or. if they do. are not
Tad For the tra' S.'rce between
Pc United State, .1AA s.u,Sc. has
fen in the istt.s h :
a several years -.
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