Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-06
TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE
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The Air Mail

Announcement that the Mexican air mail from Mex
leo City to Brownsville will be inaugurated February
rs, is received with great satisfaction not onls. BY res
idents Of Brownsville, but also BY all who have bust
ness or ether connections with the southern republic.
II signifies that the Mexican air mail will be placed
upon an efficient basis, and that in every respect 4
will compare with tho excellent service now offered
throughout the United States. While no definite an
nouncsment has been received from American postal
authorities, it is presumed that the American air mail
70 the Mexican interior will be insuguratcd the same
date.
Only . wear has elapsed since the movement TO Sc
cure a municipal airport was launched. On the night
OF January rs, 1928, a meeting Of Brownsville eitiIens'
hsld at the federal court room, launched the par
which resulted in the purchase of the airport site ana
DEVELOPMENT Of port facilities. Al that time tne most
optimistic deemed it very improbable that the airport
ronld come into general use within three years.
The city has expended approximately sloe'Ooo on tns
a,y,ort. and additional expenditures probably VIII
hy;r. N, total TO 100000. This is a huge sum, but
IN. business already developed indicates the venture
will proye highly profitable for the city in direct IL
n.rcisl returns. When the wide publicity tne Guy =
receiving and the volume Of transient busins<s that the
airrort generates is taken into confederation inc IN
vsstmsnt is today paying the city big dividends' aha
these vill increase as the years pass and ar uaii'o
between the United States and the Latin American
countries develops.
Rrour.ville citizens in voting for the airport bond
,,.us denoted their faith in the project. However II
!. ~dopbtful IL any Of them realized how quickly the
r,.v would begin to secure returns on the investment
rbsv figured they we're dealing in futures; that prob
.bly several years would elspse before the port woulo
r,cv. NJ material benefit to the city as = whole The
fact that the airport il now practically paying ITS own
nav. that each week en- increasing volume 81 business
a. -.,ord.d: and that the advent Of the air mail will
further stimulate this business End the essh returns
"a IN. city Of Brownsville indicates that before the
-~a,r.ior - 1929 II will he . prolific source OF
revenue.
In score, of cities which lack the geographical ad-
v.ntares Brownsville possesses, private interests are
amending millions Of dollars IN development q III
,o,t facilities. These investments are being made with
xs.v a future returns, and the type Of financiers
back OF the project prove they have faith in mos
returns being ample. Brownsville will have . Seeiocu
advantage, not only in the fact that rs geosraphisa'
location assures large volume OF business. but also in
the further fact that the airport is municipality owned
and operated, and that every taxpayer will participate
In the profits.
\, r.eent weeks q number Of leaders in development
=, r.tion.i and international air lines have inspected
the Brownsville airport. They have been unanimous
In commencing the arrangement and the manner w
rhieh 4 IA being developed. They note that the city
Ia, provided for future expansion BY securing tuffi-
Giant acreage TO meet all demands; that the structures
are erected with . view TO Permsncnee Is well as ell
cheney. and that in every detail the speeiiiea'ons Of
N, U. s. department OF commerce have been closely
followed. The result is an airport that compares favor
.hIv with the best in the East or North. q port that
r,,l attract the international business and place
Brown.ville on the air lines map IS the major inter
national port Of the southern border.