Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-31
I'm OUR
VALLEY

BROWNSVILLE can secure addi-
tional mail carrier service, if
Residents in the new sections to
be- served will see that their houses
are numbered.
Residents in the new territory
will put up receptacles in which
the carriers may deposit mail.
Postmaster G. w. bennett an
nounces that he can secure two addi-
tional carriers IL these things are
done Immediately.
Mail delivery, under this plan,
would be extended to all that terri
tory west Of Palm boulevard.
Also to all that territory in Vic
toria Heights.
Sidewalks are still lacking in
much Of this territory, but the
streets mostly have been paved.
ANOTHER CROWD of some 1900
visitors arrived in the Valley this
week on land company special
trains.
~ brings the total for January
"a almost 5000 for the land COM
panies alone.
Which probably breaks all prev
ious records in any one month in
the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
The figure does not include those
visitors who came con their own"
10 see the country.
Probably the figures will be
approached again during February,
possibly they may even be surpass-
eS-
- All OF it presages extraordinary
development during the next two
years.
CAPTAIN Z. A. STERLING re-
sides n couple Of doors from The
Herald office.
Captain Sterling is an ardent
booster for the Lower Rio Grande
Valley.
lie knows all of Texas. More par
tieularly, he knows this border
country. He ranched along the
border for many years. until his
retirement from active business n
few years ago.
In addition to ali that he knows
the oil men of Texas.
Was in Fort Worth a few days
r l1Ll,, ..f tho Worth
hotel.
Someone learned he was from
sRrownsville-from "the Valley"
They all wore overcoats, even in
the lobby.
ats too cold here-Pm going
home," Mr.. Sterling announced.
He was jeered. Certainly, they
declared, if it was cold in Fort
Worth il must be cold in Browns
vile.
So Captain Sterling picked up a
morning paper. Turned to the cot
ton region bulletin"
II showed Brownsville tempera-
ture we'll above 20.
"I'm going home" declared Cap
! tain Sterling. Home where it's
warm"
THE ANNUAL winter polo tour
namGt will open at Fort Brown
Frida1
There will be teams from Wichita
Falls, Houston, Fort Brown and
from Mexico.
Comparatively few points ever
1 have an opportunity to witness
i polo tournament.
/ Brownsville is 50 favored, among
a very few other cities in Texas.
There will be splendid, small,
wiry ponies, mounted by excellent
riders.
They will follow a large, wooden
4robe around the field.
Visitors to the Valley should not
fail to witness these games during
he season, which will end February
no.
Il will Be worth travelling miles
10 see.
Pool ponies are doing their share
If the work necessary to keep alive
interest in hosseflesh in an age
that thinks only of motors.
FRED l.. JOHNSTON of Pan
chita ranch, Hidalgo county. thinks
that a tour % Mexico by repre-
sentative crowd of residents of the
yalley should prove Of material
(henefit TO this section.
Johnston. a native of the border,
e always endeavoring to do some
ehing that will tend to promote and
rement the friendly relations exist
4;nr between the people Of this side
81 the border and the people Of
Mexico.
He is now investigating the cost
a such an undertaking.
Would travel by special train and
isit virtually all Of the important
sties Of the northern half Of Mex
BAce
s&a worthwhile undertaking.
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