Brownsville herald. [volume], February 17, 1929, Page FIVE, Image 5

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fPHEASANTS IN
VALLEY URGED
I Propagation As Game
I Bird Is Declared
I Feasible
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I Pheasants as a new game, bird for
if the Lower Rio Grande Valley, is an
entirely feasible in the opinion
harler G. Jones, state gam a
|HBicn, and one that will be tested
HJP shortly. The only important
point to be considered is that the
bird will have to be protected for a
certain length of time.
Mr. Jones says that he has broach
ed the subject to the game commis
sioner and he urged that Valley
sportsmen go ahead and develop the
plan, raising birds as a test to see
how they will thrive here.
*. “Our Texas game laws already
have a provision protecting the
pheasant with an indefinite closed
season. 1 am in hearty accord with
this idea of stocking tne Valley sec
tion with this game bird and see no
reason why the birds could not be
araised and propagated in such num
bers to become thoroughly estab
lished as one of our ranking game
birds.
“The unusual success attained in
the Dakotas, Iowa and Nebraska,
where these birds are now compara
tively plentiful, should at least be
’quailed here in the Valley, where
he ebachalaca or Mexican pheasant
ft a native. Of alt varieties 1 would
Suggest the Chinese as being the
l»est for this breed as it is outstand
ing for its hardiness and adaptabil
ity.
• “Breeding stock brought in from
the other states and placed upon
the farms throughout the Valley and
raised in pens is the best plan. After
the young are about grown they
should be gradually liberated on the
land where they are raised. In this
iway the birds would know their range
| and could be better protected by the
^people of the neighborhood.
“Under this plan 1 believe within
• very few years we would have
enough birds to consider an open
•enaon on them. My suggestion of
getting young birds as a beginning
is not made to discourage those who
might care to buy eggs, as this is
a good plan, also. 1 have in mind
hMll the advantage of adaptability,
y oung being already acclimated.
■J^Bptedatory animals are one of the
♦^Hwtest enemies to pheasants. To
avoid loss from this source 1 think
our cultivated sections the best
place to raise and liberate these
birds. Along canals and fence rows
should afford sufficient cover while
in the adjoining fields a food sup
ply can be found. An agreement
with farmers to help protect these
birds, along with signs stating there
i> a closed season for a period of
years, will take care of the situation
so far as propaganda is concerned.
“Several Valley people have already
experimented with pheasants and
find they do well here. Mr. Cox.
president of the First State Bank of
Alamo Mr. Billman, farmer of Don
na, P. P. Golie. farmer of Donna;
Mr. Quinn. Fred Guerin and Bill
Parks, of Mission; Dave Ferguson
of Harlingen and Ross Hoyt of Mc
Allen are men who now have pheas
ants or else very much interested
in seeing these birds placed in the
Valley.
“I have talked with a number of
Valley men who during the past
year have enjoyed that most royal
sport of shooting pheasants in states
where there is an open season, and
to hear them relate their experiences
should arouse in our minds a deter
mination to have this same sport in
the near future in the Valley. In
this undertaking, as in all others
wherein the sportsmen are to be
considered, I am at your service.”
Zapata Bridge
To Be Formally
Opened March 21
t ROMA, Feb. 16.—Announcement Is
made that the work on the Zapata
! bridge over the Rio Grande will
be completed early in March, but
the owners, in cooperation with the
people of Zapata, Texas and Guer
rero, Mexico, will not have a formal
opening until March 21st which is
the natal day of Benito Juarez, lib
erator of Mexico.
They plan to have monster free
barbecue at Guerro near the famous
falls on the beautiful Salado river
and a dance in the city.
Construction on the federal build
. Ings for bousing government offi
cers at the approaches, started this
week. Both buildings on the Mexi
can and United States ends of the
bridge are to be modern stucco.
• electrically lighted and furnished
with running water. The Mexican
quarters will contain six rooms
while those on the American side
will contain eight.
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women of America today.
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with the flower essence of
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This charming new line of
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CISNEROS
Drug Stores
AUTOS CRASH AS
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FARMER GOES TO
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SLEEP AT WHEEL’
(Special to The Herald)
i SAN BENITO, Feb. 16.—“Asleep
J at the switch” might be the label
i of a peculiar automobile accident
here early this morning when two
machines crashed. one being
hurtled into the plate glass win
dow of a mercantile store in the
business section.
The story goes that a farmer
who had been driving a tractor for
36 hours without sleep, decided to
cal) it a day, got into his auto
mobile and drove to town. While
driving on the main street, he
succumbed to “that tired feeling."
and fell asleep, the accident re
sulting. He escaped injury.
NEWINDUSTRY
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; Company Organizing
To Bottle Citrus
Fruit Juices
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—NEW INDUSTRY—6 Sunday _I
MISSION, Feb. 16.—“TexaSweet”
grapefruit juice may be offered to
the world in bottles it was learned
| here today as final papers of incor
poration were being drawn up by a
group of men interested in the bot
tling of grapefruit and orange juice.
The name of the new company, which
is reported to have ample capital,
cannot be given at this time, nor the
men who will be actively identified
with the organization. It has been
learned that several of the most
prominent men of south Texas are
identified in the new industry.
This new Valley industry, which
may rival in volume of sales Texa
Sweet grapefruit, is being developed
because of a constantly growing de
mand for grapefruit juice for health
purposes, and at the suggestion of
jobbers who recommended to the
Texas Citrus Fruit Growers’ Ex
change the development of such an
industry so that the pure grapefruit
juice could be sold to their trade
during the months of the year when
the consuming public was unable to
secure the fresh fruit.
No definite plans of the new or
ganization have been given out for
publication, hut it is understood that
the culls and second grades of fruit
would be suitable for a juice-preserv
ing plant, and that, aside from fur
nishing a profitable industry for the
Valley, it would furnish a stable
market for grapefruit that is now.
to a targe extent, either wasted or
sold at a very minimum price.
Officials of the Texas Fruit Grow
ers’ Exchange said that the plant
would undoubtedly be located at
Mission, where the rapidly increas
ing acreage o* grapefruit would in
sure an adequate supply of fruit to
maintain a plant in continuous opera
tion dhring the shipping season.
ROTARIANS TO
VISIT MEXICO
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Delegates T o Dallas
Session In May •
Coming Here
DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 18.—(>P>—Five
of the delegations expected at the
Rotary Convention here May 27-31,
numbering perhaps several hundreds,
have already made plans for post
convention tours of Mexico, visiting
the principal cities as a gesture of
goodwill.
The Rotarians from Germany, com
ing on the S. S. Cleveland, and the
special trainloads from Cleveland.
Buffalo, New England and “Dixie"
have made arangements to swing
through Mexico from Brownsville. El
Paso, Laredo and other border points,
to Mexico City and Vera Crux or
Yucatan, returning home via Havana
or New Orleans.
President f. R. “Tom” Sutton of
Rotary International is in the hard
ware business in Tampico, Mexico. In
the last three years he has visited 28
of the 44 countries in which there are
Rotary cluhs, and his friends have
stimulated interest in Mexico.
Dae largely to the enthusiasm he
aroused among the business and pro
fessional men of Mexico, forty-one
Rotary clubs have been established in
Mexico, in the last eight years, and
their activities have exerted a pro
found effect upon conditions in their
country.
An unusually larze delegation of
Rotarians from Mexico is expected at
the convention because of the prox
imity of Dallas to their country and
their interest in Rotary. The fact
that the Rotary president is known
to them, and that so many delega
tions plan to tour their country after
the convention, are added induce
ments.
As quasi-hosts to the Rotarians
from all over the world, forty-three
Texas Rotary' clubs have been ehosen
a* correspondents to the Rotarians
from the countries outside th» United
States. These cluhs provide informa
tion to the Rotarians in the country
they correspond with, and make per
sona! contacts with the Rotarians
planning to come from that country
so they can he of service to them
when they arrive in Dallas. The San
Antonin club is the correspondent
club of Mexico, which is expected to
send one of the largest delegations
from a country outside the United
States.
Work Continued
On Starr Roads
ROMA. Feb. 18.—The maintenance
crew on highway 12 which has been
engaged in resurfacing the highway
from the Hidalgo countv line to
Roma the nast eight months, has
completed the hard surfacing on
that part of the road and this week
moved to a point three miles west
of Roma and started regrading that
nsrt of the highway from Roma to
the Zapata countv line.
It is the intention of the state
highwav department to gravel this
oart of the ro»d as soon as bridge
funds are available for the con
struction of two bridges over Arro
yo El Mina and over a creek about
-oven miles from the 7spr*a confer
line
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