Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-27
I'm OUR
VALLEY

4 SOME 1000 LETTERS have accu-
mulated at the office of Postmaster
&c. w. bennett for dispatch on the
] first air mail plane to Mexico
1City.
q These letters have been accumu-
lating for nearly a year.
4 Early last summer, when it was
first intimated that an air mail
line would be established, the mail
began arriving.
| When the line finally was estab-
Ilished via Laredo. the incoming
mail volume Jagged. and picked up
again with the announcement of
the new line via Brownsville and
Matamoros.
II Brownsville and other Valley
citizens who want to send mail by
the first plane, should send them
to the Brownsville postoffice at
once, marking the mail to hold for
II gle first airplane. Proper postage
81 ~ envelopes should be used.
y DO YOU WANT to air mail a
letter to yourself?
It can be done by the first plane
Suppose your name is John Doe
and you live at La Feria.
Address your letter to yourself.
send 1t to the Brownsville postof-
flee for the first airplane south,
and mark 1t Via Vera Cruz and
Merida"
il 1t will make the circle. crossing
the Gulf Of Mexico to the West In
dies. thence 20 Miami, finally find
ing its way around by New Orleans.
and then on back 70 John Doe at
II la Feria.
THE VALLEY Is to have a $12,-
u OcG 900 corporation.
IL will be the largest development
Il capitalization yet assembled in this
II section where dollars are rarely
II spoken or except in millions.
The Delta Orchards company will
be the name OF the corporation.
And its president will be w. A.
4 Harding. the Raymondville country
ii developer.
The corporation will develop and
Il sell $4,000 acres OF land 1t owns In
Il the new willacy county water inn
81 provement district. which comprises
Z about 10000 acres of land.
THIS COLUMN mentioned few
! days ago that a dump ground in
: close proximity to the park now be-
ing developed by the city. was mar
= ring the vicinity.
Tremendous amounts Of trash
had been accumulated.
City Commissioner d. z. Hinkley
ipromptly accepted the suggestion
And the next day. being calm.
found a crew Of men on the scene
burning up the refuse
The condition viii. therefore. be
partially corrected.
But there still remains the prob
lem of disposing of a sizeable city's
accumulation Of trash
An incinerator seems to be the
only practical solution.
It Is a rather expensive improve
tnent, but Is necessary.
The city already is forced TO
sDend large amounts OF money Tor
various things.
Perhaps the cost Of an inciner-
Aator. somewhere around $55-000,
can be sandwiched in somewhere.
JAMES c. BOWIE OF San Benito
and A. L. Brooks Of Harlingen are
the leaders of their respective cities
IN tn. Harlingen-San Benito get
!, torefkerr movement
| zach has long been an inspira-
tion for good in his own city.
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC lines
ned model hen house on exhibit
tIon NJ the last Mid-Winter fair at
Z Hariingen-
The house. serving its purpose at
r the fair. was TO 60 TO some deserv-
,,y noultrvman in the Valley.
81 it has been awarded TO O. D.
JENNINGS. a farmer living near San
Benito.
Jennings has some 600 Ancona
hens on hand.
And had been planning to con-
st,7,ct adequate quarters for the
poultry.
Nov he will spend that money In
otherwise improving his poultry
operations.
Jennings also grows potatoes. And
sx said TO realize from 95 10 100
bushels on his 25 70 30-acre potato
acreage.
Also. he keeps a couple of cows.
4 There is a growing demand for
milk. cream. eggs and poultry. In
the Valley and for the Valleys
markets.
Tt's this sort OF diverSification
4 that will help 10 keen farming IN
\ the list Of profitable vocationS.
CAPTAIN EAKER is scheduled to
Aart his dawn -to-dusk flight from
/ .~ownsyille at 4.3o o'clock the
srorning OF Sunday. March 10.
That,s q rather unearthly hour.
"A <far As the general public Is con-
fEt us a good guess that. wea-
If nermitting. there win be-
XE,tv good crowd on hand to wish
raptain q quick and successful
-.r, over the 1o30-mile route.