Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-21
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VALLEY

AeD - AieOI>, oCCIcIdTy OF Ln6
Brownsville school board and farm
er, takes issue with The Herald's
story Wednesday of the Valleys
first eggplant being shipped from
San Benito.
He points out that Burns and
Starck. a partnership composed Of
himself and his son-in-law, T. M.
Burns, operating a farm near Palm
Grove, have been marketing egg
plant during the entire w;nter-stilI
are, in fact. All of it has been sold
on the Brownsville market. how
ever, so to the extent of being the
first shipped, the San Benito lot
stands up.
BUT. BEING in practically
frost-free belt, the Burns and
Starck river bottom farm has been
yielding summer vegetables all dur
Ing the winter and the plants have
suffered absolutely no damage.
Not only has eggplant been mar
keted during the "off season." but
also green peppers. Peppers still
are being marketed.
And so, although San Benito
shipped the first eggplant, the
earliest of that vegetable was
grown in the Brownsville section.
And the earliest peppers, too.
Just to keep the record straight.
THE HERALD is indebted to
Edmund P. Williams, former pub
Usher Of the Weslaco News, for a
picture scoop" He had news
paper cut of G. E. Kelley, Weslaco
man slugged there Monday night.
He sent it to The Herald on the
bus and the picture appeared in
the final Monday afternoon edition.
SIX CONCRETE highways now
converge at Brownsville and the
seventh will be completed in a few
weeks. These include:
The Valley highway, extending
from Brownsville west to Roma.
distance of approximately 120 miles
and connecting with highway No.
96 at Harlingen and the north
highway at Pharr.
The military highway. which, it
Is believed, will be paved through
to q connection at the fndalgo
county line.
The Southmost highway, con-
Meeting with the lower river planta-
lions.
The Puente Guadalupe highway,
connecting the city with the
northern and eastern parts Of Ell
Jardin.
Ell Jardin boulevard. extending
through the agricultural area to
the east, and which will be extend
ed TO the coast
The ParedeS Line, extending to
Los Fresnos where it connects with
Highway No 100 to Point isabel,
and also extends as 9-foot high
way four miles north from Los
FreSnoS.
The seventh highway will be the
extension of Fourteenth street
diagonally through Ell Jardin to
the proposed site for the Browns
vile navigation district turning
basin.
AN EIGHTH HIGHWAY is 10
Gated on the Mexican side Of the
Rio Grande and connects the inter-
national bridge with the paved
street of Matamoros.
This is only a little over a mile
in length. but carries heavy
volume Of traffic, as attested by
the monthly reports of the bridge
management.
BUT BROWNSVILLE's highway
program is not completed. One Of
the greatest needs at present is a
belt highway around the city
which would connect all the nigh
ways
1t would serve a very useful pur-
pose. especially in equalizing vol
ume of traffic entering or leaving
the city during rush periods.
The city commission has pro-
vided paved connections with the
city's system of paved street All
of these connections have not been
completed, but they have been
authorized and will be completed
as fast as possible.
THE VALLEYS marketing prob
Ism appears no nearer solution
than it did ten years ago. despite
efforts of leaders to effect organi-
Zatioh
Since the opening of the season
efforts have been made by various
leaders to secure orderly marketing
of the crop, but without noticeable
results.
The cabbage market is fair
criterion of the result of haphazard
marketing. and it must be apparent
to all that the Valley growers will
continue to lose millions in annual
profits unless some form of organi-
zation is perfected.
The potato deal is starting under
less auspicious conditions than did
the cabbage deal.
To assure maximum profits the
potato crop must be marketed in an
orderly manner and without COM
petitive quotations.
LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY
growers cannot afford the annual
loss Of profits resulting from lack
of organized marketing. and there