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LAST BROTHER
NOW HAS 101
2 Owners of Famous
Ranch Killed By
Automobiles
rONCA CITY. Old*.. Feb. 16.—(/F,‘
Oklahoma’s 101 ranch, sole surviv
mg show place of the southwest
cattle country, has passed into the
hands of the last of three Miller
brothers who made it famous.
Within a year two of the trio,
Joseph C. and George L., have been
killed. The automobile, which suc
ceeded cow ponies as their mode of
travel, caused both deaths. Joseph
died from gas fumes and George met
death when his car upset.
Zack T., the third hrothe r. now
will manage the 110,000 acre tract,
known as America’s only big ranch
to be kept intact.
From a cattle rar.rre the 101 ranch
was developed into what was called
the wrold’s largest diversified
farm. Simultaneously the Miller
brothers kept the spirit of cow
boy days with their “wild west”
► hows, yet transformed the estate
into a modern experiment farm.
New types of cattle have been
raised on the ranch by cross-breed
ing. “Cattilo” were produced by
bereding cattle and buffalo. At one
time the Milless claimed the larg
est herd of purebred Duroc-Jersey
hogs in the world.
Their apple orchard is considered
the largest in Oklahoma. Oil flows
daily from numerous well* on th©
ranch. Thousands of acres are de
voted to grains and experimental
crop-raising.
For years the Millers’ annual
round-up has attracted thousands to
the ranch. Their “wild west” show,
which makes annual tours through
out the country, includes genuine
“broncho-husters” riding outlaw
horses. Native Indians, always be
friended by the Millers, travel with
the troupe.
Herds of “catalo,” buffalo and
ostriches still roam the range.
There are cages of monkeys, coy
otes, elk and bear.
Since the three brothers inherit
ed the ranch from their father, Col.
George W. Miller, their sons have
been trained to manage the farm.
Assisting Zack Miller will be his two
nephews, George W., Jr., and Joe
C„ Jr.
ISSUE REPORT
(Continued from Pag® One.)
lege of Industrial Arts, was in Cam
eron county. Mr. Westcourt discuss
ed problems of yard beautification
at the meetings held at Mrs. P. M.
Sherer’s Thursday, Feb. 14; at Mrs.
I*. S. Tarwater's on Friday, Feb. 16;
and attended the council meeting on
February 15.
Mr. Crockett reporta that all of
the plans for the twelve demonstra
tion yards have been delivered to
the club members, and the agent
/hopes that the members will plant
at their earliest convenience so that
some showing will be evident at the
February and March meetings.
During the month of January the
agent visited the living rooms of
.Mrs. J. P. Peek and Mrs. L. A. Car
renter. Mrs. Carpenter is removing
the varnish from two pieces of fur
niture and has completed plans for
her living room.
During the month of January the
agent visited all of the wardrobe
demonstrators except two. who were
ill with the flu. Soring clothes
were disrused and planned. Not
able achievement in renovation
problems has been made by Miss
Flora Stookey and Mrs. C. E. Miller,
who have renovated two winter
coats.
Demonstrations in clothing and
yard improvement have been givtn
to all of the girls clubs this month.
Seven demonstrations in yard im
provement were given, one to each
girls' club. Fifty-two out of sev
enty-two girls enrolled in club
work brought sketches of their
yards to the club meeting and made
plans for improvement. Twenty
three girls reported cleaned yards
and fifteen reported planting flow
ers and shrubs.
OTRUSCOTS
(Continued from page one.)
! only a few thousand bales out of from
tio,000 to 180,000 bales.
Mr. Boyd did say that the early
I prospects are encouraging, and that
! if the present cotton year is up to
or above the average that it should
I bring the Valley its usual flood of
I money, the gross return to the Val
j ley from cotton annually running
1 from $8,000,000 to as high as $l?,0u0,
j 00».
As an indication of the probable
j reduced acreage there has been prac
| tically no building of cotton gins m
| the Valley for the past few months,
| with no announcement of plans to
! erect gins for the 1020 cotton crop.
The Luilding of gins during the past
three years has been rapid and gen
eral over the Valley.
If there is no rainfall between
! now and the time of the heavy plant
! ing. farmers over the Valley will
, have to irrigate rather generally, *
unless they have taken special meas
ures to preserve the moisture in the
; soil. Plenty of moisture is necessary
1 to secure good germination of the
I seed, and a satisfactory stand in the
i fields
| Mr. Boyd based his belief that the
i crop will be a good one partially on
, the results of the stalk eradication
campaign which was launched in the
i Valley last fall, and carried on by
| the county agents, ginners and others.
The results were very satisfactory,
■ with these results expected to be
| come more apparent in the smaller
; infestation of boll weevils to the
coming cotton crop. This is the third
| year that intensive stalk cleanup
work has been carried on in the Val
! ley. and a decrease is noticed every
; year in the weevil infestation.
The ginners association of the Val
ley. which by direct mail and news
paper advertising carried on the
campaign for stalk eradication last
fall, is now conducting a campaign
i urging the growers to purchase a
good type of seed, U. F. graded, to
. insure long staple, superior quality
cotton.
(Continned from page one.t
hats, sitting down in the field pull
ing the carrots and tying them in
bunches with palm strands, ready
for the market. We were back
home in Brownsville at « p. m. hav
ing enjoyed a day long to be re
membered by us.
Monday evening we went to East
ern Star lodge. We had attended
two weeks before, so didn’t feel
entirely strangers. There were a
number of visitors all of whom they
made very welcome. Two weeks ago
wo went as guests with the W, M.
and her husband up to Pharr, and
attended O. E. S. there. They had
as their guests the Brownsville and
San Juan chapters. The ritualistic
work is the same of course in Texas,
but some of the floor work is quite
different. I’ll tell you about that
later.
Thia fins been a busy week in the
Valley. It is estimated that over a
thousand land seekers have been
down in the Valley thia week. One
company of 32 from Milwaukee came
in over the Missouri Pacific, and at
Mercedes we saw six Pullmans on
the side track marked “Progreso De
velopment Co.” This district is one
of the most wonderful we have seen
anywhere. Then we met three dif
ferent caravans of cars taking land
parties either up or down the Val
ley. They are either entertained at
the companies' club houses or at
hotels, and the trip always includes
one trip to Matamoros, over the line
in Mexico. Some abuse the privi
lege, of course, but the majority
continue to be gentlemen even in
Mexico.
This is from The Brownsville
, Herald of Jan. 22, 1929:
"Another tourist movement into
the Valley has broken all previous
! records.
“Nearly 1300 persons, from all sec
tions of the frozen north, arrived
in special trains and otherwise.
“If the movement continues, it la
| continuing at the rate of more than
6,000 visitors a month.
“Which is the largest in the hia
! tory of colonization in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley.
“There may have been, in the past,
criticism of the colonization methods
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
“But no one has arisen, as yet,
with any suggestion that would make
colonization possible under some
other plan.”
Preparations are under way for
the inauguration of the Brownsville
to Mexico City air mail service. The
Mexico Aviation Co. has signed a
contract with the Mexican govern
ment the past week for the service,
which is understood will start in a
short time. Before the summer is
over it is expected that there will
be direct air mail service from
New York via Houston, Galveston,
Corpus Christi, Brownsville to Mex
ico City. Prom inside information
we learn that Lindbergh will fly the
first mail plane over the border.
Brownsville is very enthusiastic
over their air port and justly so.
We have been out to the airport
several times. It is about five miles
from the heart of the city. No one
seems to pay any attention to mile
age down here,
I heard a woman comnlainng the
other day about the heat, and she
is from Ohio and is with some Iowa
people. I felt like saying “I thought
that was why you came down here,
because it was warm.” You couldn't
I please some people if you tried.
You had better see Mr. Yager and
find out what he has to offer in
the Valley, and take a trip down
here. I’m afraid the mail.will turn
:ne down if I make this too long, so
bjre-bye folks, we will expect to
I hear from you soon.
MARY WHITE CHASE.
FRESHWATER
(Continued from Page One.)
formerly a lake of brackish water.
A levee cut off connection with the
Laguna Madre, and the Laguna Atas
1 cosa, over two miles in width, now
receives the entire surface drainage
from practically all of central Cam
; eron county, drain waters from the
Fresnos resaca being directed into
; the laguna through the Arroyo Atas
cosa. Several thousand acres of the
fertil coastal lands are to be de
veloped under this project.
Following completion of the levee
at the north end of the Laguna
Atascosa last fall, the Laguna was
filled during the period of heavy
rains. Gates in the levea then
were opened, permitting the water
to discharge, the waters carrying in
solution the salt deposited by the
brackish waters which formerly en
tered from the Laguna Madre. Later
rains again filled the Laguna Atas
cosa. and have transformed it into
one of the largest fresh water lakes
m the southern part of the state.
Perform Useful Service
Irrigation district managers re
gard the storage rule promulgated
! by the water board as what might be
f termed compulsory insurance against
j possible water shortage. They point
out that the water carried in storage
will be sufficient for an average of
two waterings of the entire acreage,
an ample supply to carry over any
period when the flow of the stream
would not bo sufficient to meet the
demands of irrigators.
Regardless of what action is taken
by the Mexican and American gov
ernments relative to negotiation of
a treaty and ultimate conservation
of the waters of the Rio Grande
through a series of impounding
dams, the storage reservoirs will
continue to serve a useful purpose,
irrigation leaders assert. They
point out that a large volume of tho
flood waters come from the San
Juan, which enters the Rio Grande
near Rio Grande City, and that im
pounding of these waters will be
difficult. At least part of this wa
ter, which otherwise would go to
waste, can be diverted into the
reservoirs of the Valley districts and
stored for future use. It is true
that the supply under conservation
may be sufficient to meet all re
quirements, but the storage reser
voirs will serve as insurance to meet
any possible contingency that may
arise and will give added security
to investments in Valley irrigated
lands, a factor that is deemed of
utmost importance.
Fresh Water Lakes
Another factor that should not be
ignored, is the beautification and
recreational possibilities of the nu
merous water storage reservoirs
which ar© beginning to dot the Low
er Rio Grande Valley. When the
present projects are completed prac
tically all resacas and many of the
natural depressions will have been
transformed into fresh water lakes,
each offering exceptional opportuni
ties for recreational purposes and
beautification. Several of the de
velopment companies have taken
cognizance of this factor, and plans
already have been formulated to
take full advantage of it, the lakes
and resacas to provide a water back
ground for homesitea and recrea
tional resorts.
Several leaders in Valley develop
ment are discussing coordination of
plans for Valley beautification, in
which the storage reservoirs will
play an important part, and they
predict that within five years every
section of the Valley will have its
fresh water lakes, lined with beau
tiful homes or recreational resorts,
all of which will add to tho fame of
the Valley and the attractions this
section offers tourists, sportsmen
and visitors.
VALLEY FINDS
(Continued from page one.)
freight rates, but this is not such as
to prevent competition from this sec
tion or bar Valley products. With
the present rates the jobbers can af
ford to supply the trade with Valley
vegetables at practically the sane
price as those grown in Florida.
Comments from southeastern job
bers indicate that Florida’s principal
idvantage is in packing and grad
ng, and they are practically unan
imous in demanding that Valley ship
pers adopt the Florida standards and
grades.
W. R MONTGOMERY
Atasrney at Law
President Hidalgo Guarantee
Abstract Company
Edinburg State Bank Bldg.,
Edinburg. Co„ Seat Hidalgo Ce.
ESCAPE DEATH IN MEXICO BOMBING
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A recent photo of Provisional President Emilio Portes Gil of Mex
ico. with his wife and baby daughter, who escaped death when their
presidential train was dynamited 150 miles from Mexico City. The
explosion derailed the locomotive and two coaches. The president and
his family were riding in their private car farther back in the train.
NEW DISTRICT
(Continued from page one.)
the developers to have the system
in operation in a few weeks to sup
ply this acreage. Construction of
the main canal tc a connection with
the Cuates has been completed and
pumps and other equipment will ar
rive this week, and will be installed
immediately.
Contract With Los Fresnoe
The district hes entered into a
contract with the Lot Fresnoa dis
trict, Ne. «, to supply irrigatleu
water, the new district paying $25
i per acre for the use of the Los
Fresnos system, and will pay its
| pro rata pert of the pumping coat
and maintenance of the Los Fres
nos main canal and the canal across
the Rutherford-Harding lands. The
district will pay to the Los Fres
nos district $106,325 under the
terms of this contract.
According to construction esti
mates, as contained in the bond
election call, the coat of concrete
lining will aggregate $113,317, and
the pipe installations $41,079. Struc
tures in connection with the canals
and drain ditches are estimated at
$12,050, and the earthwork on canala
and drains at $64,172. Clearing of
rights of way for canals and drains,
which has been practically complet
ed. is estimated at $5,928. and pumps
and motors which will be installed
along the Cuates resaca are listed at
$64,300. Metera will be installed
throughout at an estimated cost of
$10,800.
An Ideal Development
District No. 11 will be an ideal
development from every viewpoint,
the developers state. The Cuates
resaca, which winds throughout tha
district, and which will provide the
water storage for the system, is be*
ing transformed ihto a long lake,
with numerous arms projecting from
the main body. Work on the im
pounding dams is well under way,
and will be completed in a few
weeks. The resaca land, ideal for
citrus, will provide homesites with
a background of incomparable
beauty.
Highways have been cleared and
graded through part of the acreage,
and will be developed to place every
tract on a well graded road. Pav
ing plans are being formulated by
the developers, with the object of
connecting the district’s highway
system with the county pavement
on highway No. 100 which extends
from Barreda to Point Isabel.
It is believed the entire acreage
will be planted to citrus fruit with
in a year. A large acreage already
has been sold in the form of small
homesites planted to citrns fruit,
the developers to bring the trees to
bearing stage.
C1TRUSFRUHS
(Continued from page one.)
crant with respect to thickness of I
skin, roughness of texture and scars,
than in the Florida grades,” I^eigh
said. “Whether these can be cor
rected by cultural methods. I do not
know, but I have been advised they
can.”
Those connected with the citrus
fruit industry have evidenced great
interest in the investigations con
ducted by Leigh, and are confident j
that when the Valley grades are es
tablished they will be generally ac
cepted by Valley shippers. Accept
nnce of these grades is purely vol
untarily, but in Florida practically
all fruit is shipped under grades,
and the trade is familiar with the
Florida grades.
Jobbers Want Grades
During the recent Valley tour of
the Western Fruit Jobbers the pro
posed establishment of grades was
discussed, and it was the consensus
that there should be no variation
from the Florida grades other than
necessary to meet local conditions.
It was pointed out that Florida is
providing 92 per cent of the grape
fruit going into the markets; that
Florida grades are well established,
and that any marked variation from
those grades would result in endless
confusion in the marketing of Valley
fruit.
Grades have not been established
for California grapefruit, and it it
the objective of the department to
make a thorough investigation and
establish the grades for the three
sections upon as near the same basis
as possible.
This move by the department will
delay establishment of the Valley
grades several weeks, Mr. Leigh said.
It was the original intention to an
nounce the Valley grades the latter
part of February or early in March,
and utilize* them in the last few
weeks of shipping. However, the
delay will cause no serious incon
venience. it was said, as the Valley
can apply the grades with the open-j
ing of the next shipping season.
BLOOD TURNS TO WATER
WANDSWORTH. Eng.—Alexander
H. Durbridge, aged 24. died as a re
sult of his blood turning to water.
WALKS 3 MILFS AT 103
HULL, Eng. — Mrs. Elisabeth
Thomas took a 3-mile walk on her
105th birthday.
VAUEY BIRD 1
(Continued from Page Ona.)
quirements of tho sanctuary cnlet
prise: "... $730,000 for the fiscal
rear ending June 30, 1939; $200,000
for the year ending June 30, 1931; m
$600,000 for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1932; $1,000,000 for the year
ending June 30, 1933; $1,000,000 for
each fiscal year thereafter for at
period of six years; and $200,000 for
the fiscal year ending Juna 30, 1940,
and for each fiscal year thereafter.”
It is agreed by conservation
that in this manner the wild
life, especially of migratory hit.
may be preserved, building refugee
where they wil be taken care of
during the winter months, and ret
ting aside certain forest and other
sections to provide sanctuaries fo.
their protection.
Dr. Pammell, who Is recognised a*
one of the foremost conservationists
in the country, concurs in this and
further says: "To me personally
passage of the bill is a matter fo '
congratulation. It is gratifying be ;
cause. I, who have seen the passengei
pigeon disappear, now know that oth
er birds of the present time will be
saved for the future.”
KILLED BY WIFE’S SIDS
ELGIN, 111.—Walking beside hit
wife on a iountry road, Jame
Brooks was struck and killed by a:
automobile.
WANT SOME WHALE?
LIVERPOOL, Eng.—Edible whale
imported from New Zealand, ia be
ing sold hero at 12 cents a pound.
Ill Mount Vernon i
The home where Washington lived and died is now a shrine visit* . B
ed every year by thousands of patriotic Americans, who gather
there the inspiration that confirms them in their loyalty and their
citizenship. 3
1732 February 22 1929
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LOS II
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“Entirely
Different”
I Because it is not a lot sub-division, though it offers the
conveniences of the city. J
Homesites are two to six times as alrge as city lots, yet
they cost little more than the average good lot.
Los Ebanos can never be congested with small homes on
small lots that shut off the view, obstruct the breeze and take „ fl
privacy from the home.
Here, you get away from the many objectionable fea- I
tures of the city lot, yet you have city water, gas, paving,
electricity, etc., and you are just outside the city limits.
There is nothing in Brownsville, or its suburbs, as exclu
sive, convenient and well-planned for future development as |
L03 Ebanos, hence its exceptional value as an investment. |
I c The home building program in Los Ebanos, where homes ||
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It’s easy to own a /term Sewers
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