Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-18
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THE LOWER Rio Grande Valley
last week shipped an even LAC
cars of vegetables and fruit.
Though that is record for
seven days, to the average Valley
resident, accustomed to talking and
thinking in carloads, il is not very
impressive.
If those 1,400 cars could be put
in one train that train would be
over eleven miles in length.
The total weight of commodities
contained in those cars was ap-
proximately 34,O00,O0O pounds.
The average shipments were 200
cars daily. including Sunday which
would make a train 16 miles in
length.
CABBAGE, of which 6t5 cars
were shipped, comprised nearly one
half the loadings for the week.
Translating those figures into
miles means that over five miles Of
cabbage was shipped out Of the
" III lllC SCNCll
Last Tuesday 152 cars of cabbage
went into the cars loaded in the
Valley that day, enough to pro-
vide 100000 persons with cab
bage dinner
If all the cabbage loaded that one
day were placed in a row that row
would extend from Brownsville to
Corpus Christi
THE VALLEY has shipped 1888
cars of fruit, not including express
shipments.
Those cars carried 215,320 boxes,
which if placed end to end would
make row 105 miles in length.
Twelve miles of refrigerator cars
have been used to market the
Valley crop, and over 100000
Valley grapefruit have been served
on American breakfast tables.
Beets and carrots are in greater
demand this year than ever before,
and have proved very profitable
crops.
Approximately IL miles of refrig-
orator cars was required to handle
the carrot loadings last week, and
beet loadings required three fourths
of a mile.
Large volumes of these COM
modities are shipped in mixed cars,
claS4ed as "beets and carrots" and
nearly a mile of cars were requiredq
for rho rrroolr,c 1OoIiy,nc
IF ALL the refrigerator cars that
have been used by the Valley since
the opening of the vegetable and
fruit season could be placed in one
train, that train would be over 88
miles in length.
Over 312,000,000 pounds of vege-
tables and fruit have been ship
ped, or an average of nearly three
pounds for every man, woman and
child in the United States.
Owing to the fact that the ma
tional distribution system is not
perfect, each did not receive his or
her proportionate share, which is
to be regretted.
SEVERAL Valley cities are con-
templating city plan programs, a
movement which would prove of in
calculable benefit to the entire
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
The Valley has every natural ad-
Satnage. Nature has been ex-
tremely generous with this section.
and if the cities of the Valley will
take advantage of this fact it will
not require many years before the
stream of tourists is diverted in this
direction.
Careful planning will enhance
the attractiveness of any city or
town, and here in the Valley where
opportunities for Identification are
unsurpassed, the well planned city
or town will be doubly attractive.
The cost of city planning is in
finitesimal in comparison with the
benefits which will accrue.
The ONION FETE staged FRIDAY
by Wiilacy county people at Ray
mondvllle was a novel and effective
method OF advertising that county
and its products.
Wlilacy county secured a large
volume OF very desirable publicity.
and as a result Willacy county
onions, pronounced the finest in the
world, Will be in general demand.
The crop promises to be the
largest ever produced in the Valley.
anu the opening prices indicate il
VIII prove very profitable for the
growers.