Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-26
IN OUR
VALLEY
, By CHARLES HALL

- By CHARLES HALL w
THANKSGIVING has come and
nv gone. and the Valley has OBJ
served 1t with reflections on the
many good things that have really
been enjoyed here. Christmas day
has passed but the holiday spirit
win remain with us until after the
new year has been ushered in.
That is the last holiday Of the year
now awaiting celebration in Browns
vile. AS it approaches we should
come 70 It's observance singing the
hymn and preaching the gospel Of
optimism. There are many things
Brownsville and Valley people can
look forward to during the year 1880.
In fact they are too numerous 70 de-
tail.
Bankers and men OF foresight arc
predicting q good business year. Sort
Of conservative kind where profits
and fruits OF honest endeavors can
be looked forward 70. Not any flood
OF prosperity is predicted, to be sure,
but good profits for good business
sanely conducted.
II all the readers can not forsee
this, IL still remains that optimism
should be the keynote. Optimism has
built more communities into sub
stantial national assets than pessi-
misn has ever torn down.
AN official report OF the Starr
~ county well. near Roma, has
been filed with the oil and gas
deputy at Laredo. This report made
recently shows the well flowing 45
barrels per day by heads 1t Is located
In porcion 81 Of Starr county. jurlS-
diction OF Mier. Casing has been SET
at $3.50 feet, with the bottom Of the
hole at $3.50.
Starr county is now placed per-
manently on the list Of oil producing
counties In Texas, and the new
Texas Roma field will some day be
the location OF a drilling campaign,
although 1t viii naturally be some
what slow in coming. All offset To-
cations OF this well are owned by the
Texas company. Forty-five barrels OF
oil per day at $3.50 feet is nothing
to 20 crazy about so far as produc-
ton profits are concerned, but IL will
lead TO a search for bigger pay. TO
some this field holds the promise Of
becoming a big one, in area.
Another well is being sunk In For-
cion II by Adam, Scanlon and
Wright, now standing at 80 feet.
Discovery Of oil at one end OF the
Valley may lead TO almost anything
for this section Of the country.
Amarillo idled along for two years
before believing that anything good
oil was TO be had there, and all
AZ once she opened up one OF the
largest fields of the world in area,
and cities sprang up over night.
~MHAN slugged and robbed victim OF
Injuries" reads a headline in
one Of esteemed contemporaries.
Now II we Just had TO be robbed that
Is the kind OF a robber we would
like, although we do not know nov
much we would enjoy the slugging.
GONE may feel today that they
may have eaten too much tur-
key yesterday. but everything
has its reward. The more turkey we
ate Yesterday the less hash we will
have to eat today.
But what We want to know h who
in the world ever got the idea that
home-cooked turkey hash Is not
good? II there ever was any single
thing ridiculed without cause it is
turkey hash. The engineer OF this
column wants TO take this time ard
place 10 say right now that he Is for
turkey hash strong-juSt so long as
it does not last over one day.
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THAT baby born at Donna under
such a halo OF 'elcvens" reminds
that while seven and eleven are
considered lucky numbers, with some
later-day evangels laboring 70
switch thirteen into the group
the number seven seems by nature
TO be the pivot number Of life.
So many things hinge on a cycle
OF seven or its multiple. they are
almost too numerous to mention.
For instance every seven years II
is said that the cell structure Of the
body is completely renewed by sub
stitution OF elements. At fourteen
years Of age several bones Of the
body, separted until then by cartil-
ages. knit. Children are started 10
school at the age Of seven, usually,
because 1t is then that they are sup
posed 10 be able TO really study. II
is about that age that the child can
reach over its head and grasp the
opposite ear with its hand, that be-
ing the sign in some countries by
which children are started TO school
We are supposed to die at ten times
seven. But who cares to die on
Christmas. 1t Is a time TO live.
And so we might go on celebrating
on the number seven, until we come
to the fact that in the United States
IL Is three times seven that men are
generally considered to have sense
enough TO vote, although both the
Republicans and the Democrats are
"a doubtful about each other on
Us matter.
TN the cotton countries where un-
educated negroes were credited