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Advancing Another Step.... AMcElwrath highway is truly a permanent highway. Our suc cess has been achieved by carrying out the minutest details of every highway contract we have been awarded. The entire Valley has an extensive road pro gram either completed or under construction. Cameron, Willacy and Hidalgo counties alone have voted bonds totaling $17,000,000 for feed er roads and arterial highways. The feeder road project in Cameron, Hidalgo and Willacy counties is the most extensive ever undertaken in the United States. : 7 V BROWNSVILLE, Cameron county and the entire Lower Rio Grande Valley is advancing another step to ward the goal of progressiveness. The official opening and dedication of the Brownsville Muncipal Airport and inauguration of international air mail marks another mile stone of advancement toward twentieth cen tury methods of transportation. Mail and passenger movement, both in the United States and our sister republic, Mexico, will bring the two nations closer together by hours instead of days. v r WE also have been a part of the ad vancement of Cameron county.: Fourteen years ago we started a pav ing program and since then have con structed many miles of permanent highways in Cameron and Willacy counties. The concrete highway leading from Browns ville to Southmost and many other road pro jects in Cameron and Willacy counties were built by us. We have always endeavored to give the tax payers of these counties the most mileage for their dollars. BROWNSVILLE Payiag Contractor HARLINGEN RAYMONDVILLE h CORSICANA Our Motto: Honesty — Integrity — Permanency all I The citizenship of Cam* l ^ eron and Willacy coun- . ties will ever appreciate the fine business judg ment displayed by their commissioners’ courts in their achievement of building the finest sys tem of roads to be found in any of the corn 'j& in Texas with the lowest rates of tax