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AUSTIN, April 6.—Two students
from the Rio Grande Valley will
take part in the finals of the
H<^^«n Post-Dispatch extempore
sp^Bng contest at the University
of Texas this week. They are Miss
Gyneth Stugard of Alamo and Miss
Josephine Pollard of Harlingen.
They are among six women
speakers who will compete for $50
in prizes. An equal number ol
men will compete for another $50.
Miss Stugard is president of thp
Women’s Athletic association at
the University of Texas, and has
taken part in various women’s ath
letic events. She is also an offi
cer of Te-WAA-Hiss, hiking and j
camping organization. She is a
member of Delta Zeta sorority.
Miss Pollard is a prominent musi
cian of the campus as well as
speaker, and has made several trips
with the Longhorn band. She is
one of the editors of the yearbook
of the Scottish Rite dormitory at
the university, and is an officer of
Reagan Literary society, women s
forensic group.
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Several problems drawn by the
juniors and seniors of the depart
ment of architecture of the Univer
sity of Texas were judged last week
by members of the faculty of the
department. Among the problems
judged was “A Loggia at the End
of a Garden,” for which mention
was awarded to Joaquin Mora of
McAllen.
Mora is a junior in the depart
ment of architecture and his prob
lems have been consistent prize
winners for three years.
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Among the four women student
assistants for the spring term in
the department of physical educa
tion is Miss Essie Pauline Roots
of San Benito, who has been ap
pointed assistant in pool swimming.
She will also teach correctives.
Miss Roots is a senior in the
department of phyical education
and will receive her degree in June.
The assistants were selected on a
basis of previous experience, skill,
i taching ability, training, personal
k ity and professional attitude, the
^faculty members of the depart
■ment announced in making the
appointments.
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■■The Reagan Literary society held
K regular weekly meeting Wednes
afternoon, the program being
■^Kinged by Miss Salome McAllen
Hj^^Brownsville. chairman of the
HSgMkm committee.
l\^tf<'Wogram consisted of a re
HHBi pin;. Mr Monoypennv”
jH^^^Runu Pollack, the review
|HHnlB0x'n by Miss Martha Inger
Kll ot Brownsville. A musical
■umber was also included on the
Wrograrn.
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W Six girls and six boys were se
lected Monday to compete for the
■ twentieth annual Wilmot fresh
[man declamation contest finals to
I be held Monday. April 8.
I The students who will compete in
I the finals includes Miss Dalinda
[Rodriguez of Mission, whose decla
[mation was titled. “Americans of
■ Foreign Birth.”
■ Prizes totaling $80 will be
■ awarded the winners.
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■ Among the students at the uni
Bversity taking part in intramural
Rtennis doubles matches this week
[s Hale Schaleben of Edinburg.
F Schalen is a member of a pre
Plaw team.
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Among the students at the Uni
versity of Texas who are taking
[pre-law work are Humbert and
Osbaldo Garcia, of Brownsville.
Both are juniors in the college
©f arts and sciences and intend to
enter the school of law of the
uniyersity.
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Phi Kappa Psi entertained Fri
day night of last week with a for
mal dance at the Austin country
club.
The guests included Miss Salome
McAllen of Brownsville, who is a
member of Pi Beta Phi sorority,
and Preston Oliver of Dallas, for
merly of Edinburg, who is a for
mer student in the university and
a member of Phi Kappa Psi fra
ternity.
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Phi Sigma Delta fraternity en
tertained with an informal dance
Saturday night of last week.
Bernard Lebowitz of San Benito,
a member of the fraternity, as
sisted in the entertainment of
more than a hundred guests.
FAIR PRIZE CUP ON
DISPLAY AT MERCEDES
• Special to The Herald.)
MERCEDES, April 6.—The silver
loving cup. won by Mercedes at the
Harlingen mid-winter fair, is now
on display at the First National
bank here.
The cup has been won by Mer
cedes for two consecutive years, and
should Mercedes win again at the
’29 fair, she would hold the cup
permanently.
This cup which is given for the
most attractive community booth
was won in 1924 and 1925 by Stuart
Place, in 1926 by San Benito, and
in 1927 and 1928 by Mercedes.
TEACHING BY MAIL
MEETS FRENCH NEED
PARIS. Apil 6.—{/P>—Correspond
ence schools, once frowned upon in
Fr^JWe as a freakish by-product of
America’s machine age. have grown
until they serve 100.000 pupils.
The system is found to be well
adapted to French education be
cause there are more than 30.000
towns and villages where there are
nothing but rather primitive grade
schools.
DISTRICT WILL
PUT IN LARGE
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Largest Plant In Tex
as Being Installed |
By Pharr-San Juan
Alamo System
SAN JUAN April 6.—The largest
concrete pipe plant in Texas is be
ing established here by the Pharr -
San Juan-A'lamo district, which last
year voted a $3,000,000 bond issue
to finance placing the entire sys
tem under concrete.
The district several months ago
concluded purchase of a 40-acre
tract adjoining the city on the
north,, including the old cotton
comDress. This huge structure, 400
by 200 feet in size, is being convert
ed into a concrete pipe factory, and
the first of four units has been in
stalled.
The plant will manufacture sizes
from 16- tq 42-inch, and a portable
mixing plant and steel forms have
been secured to manufacture the
larger sizes up to 6 feet in diameter,
the large sizes to be cast at the point
where they will be installed. A large
amount of 60- and 72-inch pipe will
be used, officials of the district
state.
Sizes from 16- to 24-inch will be
manufactured with the packer head
type machine, the larger sizes to 42
inch to be made with the tamper
type.
Installation of the first of the
four units is practically completed,
and is expected to be in operation
this week. Additional units will be
installed as rapidly as possible, all
four units to be operating in a few
months. Bins for the aggregate
havp been erected, and a “clam
shell’ will handle the gravel and
sand from the car or bin to the
mixing hoppers. The mixer is
equipped for water control, the ce
ment-water ratio system to be em
ployed.
Another feature of the plant is a
large laboratory adjoining the struc
ture on the north. Complete equip
ment for all tests is being installed
and the work will be under the di
rection of experts. Approximately
half the main plant has been flored
with concrete, the remainder cov
ered with rolled caliche and gravel.
The larger sizes will be cured on the
concrete floor, the smaller sizes to
be stored on the gravel section. •
A complete sprinkler svstem has
been installed to assure the proper
moisture in curing. The water lines
are installed in independent units,
the pipes being equipped with
nozzles which regulate the spray
evenly over the entire curing floor.
In addition to manufacturing the
pipe for its svstem the district also
has made a contract with the foun
dry adjoining the plant property
to manufacture water gates accord
ing to specifications provided bv the
‘Continued on page two.!
CITRUS MARKS
SAID BROKEN
Melden Estimates Valley
Crop Brought Approx
imately $3,000,000
MISSION. April 6.—Approximate
ly $3,000,000 was realized by citrus
growers of the Rio Grande Valley
on the 1928-29 crop, estimates T.
M. Melden. secretary of the Texas
Citrus Fruit Growers’ exchange,
which closed a record-breaking sea
son here this week. Melden pointed
out that this return is from only
slightly more than 10 per cent of
Valley citrus acreage, the remain
der not yet having come into bear
ing.
Carload shipments fell a little
short of the anticipated 2,500 mark
with the announcement of officials
of the Mksouri Pacific and South
ern Pacific railroads of the moviag
of 1700 carloads of citrus from /.ie
Valley. A check of truck ship
ments reveal that 140,000 boxes
have gone out of the Valley by
road; express shipments totaled
about 80.000 boxes, while it is esti
mated by officials of the exchange
that 7,520 were carried north in
automobiles. The aggregate ship
ments. other than freight, total in
j the neighborhood of f/20 carloads,
thus making the season's total about
2300 carloads.
The Texas Citrus Fruit Growers'
exchange, which handles the bulk
i of the fruit in ihe upper Valley and
large quantities at Mercedes and in
the San Benito sections, reports
that it has had the greatest season
since it was organized seven years
ago. The exchange shipments from
their Sharyland plant located near
Mission will total 275 cars this year
as compared to 170 last year, stated
Melden. Independent shippers of
Mission shipped nearly 100 cars
thus bringing the total for Mission
orchards to about 375 cars.
Federal agents report Mission cit
rus groves fin excellent shape, all
fruit having been removed to com
ply with the host season. Last
minute picking resulted in conges
ting the packing plants and much
citrus which the plants were unable
to accept was placed in cold stor
age.
3 AUTO BANDITS SHOT DEAD
ROME—Four detectives sent out
to run down robbers shot dead
three auto bandits who tried to
hold them up.
WORKING FOR INDUSTRIES
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H. M. Madison, agricultural agent. Southern Pacific Lines, and the
concrete evidence necessary to bring a milk condensery to Texas.
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S. P. BUILDING
WITH TEXAS
Railroad Made Survey For
Carnation Milk Company
Plant at Schulenburg
Giant corporations such as the
Carnation Company and the Borden
Corporation, the latter of which re
cently located a plant at Waco, do
not build first and inquire after
wards, and it took over two years of
the hardest work to convince these
companies that Texas afforded a
logical territory for the extension of
their already enormous business.
The above correspondence repre
sents individual replies received to
a questionnaire prepared by Mr.
Madison from 1980 farmers in
Southwest Texas. Similar and even
more extensive work was done;fca
fore Borden was induced to locate
in Waco.
In addition, special representa
tives were employed by Southern
Pacific Lines to check up on dairy
stock and milk production, soils,
grasses, climate, rainfall, markets,
etc., and the statistical data thus ob
tained, analyzed, digested and re
duced to a summarized statement
covering only three pages of written
matter, afforded conclusive evidence
on w’hieh the milk people based
their decision to locate in Schulen
burg, which was celebrated by thou
sands of people, brass bands, etc. at
Schulenburg on April 3rd, when
ground was broken by Governor
Dan Moody for this million dollar
plant of the Carnational Milk com
pany.
Southern Pacific Lines have been
working to this end for many years,
encouraging the importation of pure
bred dairy stock and improvement
of pasturage conditions. The num
ber of pure bred bulls, cows and
calves they have brought into Texas
and distributed in the way of prizes,
etc., would make a sizeable herd.
The beef cattle industry in the
meantime wras not neglected. South
ern Pacific Lines purchased the
champion steer at the International
Exposition & Live Stock show at
San Antonio last month, which was
bred by Craig M. Logan. Valley
Mills, Texas, and fed by Charles
Miles. Mosheim. Texas, who is a
member of the Bosque County Boys’
and Girls' Club: also five steers
from the Fort Worth show, includ
ing Agcie-Prince, owned by Texas
A. & M. College and winer of first
juniQr calf and champion Aberdeen
Angus steer.
Uniform Regulation
Of All Amateurs To
Be Sought By Dutch
PRAGUE, April 6.—(&)—A ques
tion to be considered at the Euro
pean broadcasting conference here
in which the United States is par
ticularly interested, is the proposed
adoption of a uniform inter.vtion
al license for amateur radio oper
ators.
The proposals are to be submit
ed to the conference by the Neth
erlands government. Under these
' amateur stations would be author
ized to operate exclusively within
the limits of these bands: 20.8 to
21.4 meters, 41 to 42.8 meters and
75 to 85 meters.
Amateur transmitting sets would
be limited in maximum power to
50 watts, “calculated according to
the product of the current of the
anode and the anodic tension of
the emitting tube or tubes which
transmit the energy to the antenna
without the insertion of other
tubes." An increase in the trans
mitting power could take place only
upon the approval of the govern
mental radio authority.
At the beginning and end of each
transmission, the call signal of the
amateur station would have to be
repeated at least three times. Dur
ing the transmissions the, call sig
nal would be repeated several times
at brief intervals, inserted in the
text of the message.
The arriteru would be required
to have ready for use near his
transmitter a frequency meter by
which the frequencies assigned may
be determined, a voltmeter to de
termine the anodic tension, an am
meter to measure the current of
the anode of the emitting tube and
a receiving set of which he is the
owner.
The use of damped waves, damp
ed-continuous waves and the so
called- working and resting waves
would be forbidden. For feeding
the current or of two-phase, recti
fied filtered current would be per
mitted.
MISSION CITY HEAD
MEET IS POSTPONED
MISSION, April 6— Postpone
ment of the regular bi-monthly
meeting of the city commission,
scheduled for Thursday, was an
nounced at the city hall following
the call of Mayor G. F. Dohnr to
San Antonio on business.
At the meeting, wrhich will be
held some time next week, the
naming of the personnel of the
new board of city development will
be made. This board supplants the
present officials of the chamber of
commerce, provided in the new city
charter.
Water Transport
The Key to Wealth
Of Valley Resources
Bv HARRY L. SEXTON
That wat^r tra.isporlation is the
key that will unlock the great
wealth of Lower Rio Grande Valley
resources is becoming more and
more apparent as the years pass.
Despite liberal reductions in rail
rates and close co-operation between
Vd’cy growers shippers end carri
ers. :t is obvio.is that under the
most favorable conditions and rates
rail transportation alrt.e can never
s- the problem with vhich the
Valley is confior.rrd in placing its
production in tie' consuming
oer.ieifc of the Atlantic rtast.
It is true iha*. in recent years
there has been an immense tonnage
from the Valley sold on the New
York and other Atlantic coast mar
kets, markets which could be
reached at small cost with water
transportation, but the cost of
placing products in those markets
has left to growers and shippers a
very small margin of profit, and the
operation costs of the railroads have
not made the traffic highly remun
erative to ihe carriers.
Shipments from the Lower Rio
Grande Valley last season were ap
proximately 22.000 cars, and are ex
ceed 25.000 cars this season. This
is an immense tonnage for a com
paratively small area, much as the
truck and fruit sections of the Val
ley, to produce; but it represents
less than 25 per cent of the produc
tion figure that would be possible
to attain under maximum develop
ment of Valley resources. In fact
the combined truck and fruit ship
ments this year are less than the
totsl fruit shipments of five years
hence as estimated upon the basis
of three plantings.
Must Secure Markets
The theory that no markets exist
for Valley products, a theory based
upon the low prices received by
growers in recent years, is a fallacy.
The market does exist, and that
market can be expanded to consume
the entire production of the Valley
when water transportation rates are
available. Until such rates are se
cured and the great consuming
markets of the east coast thrown
open to Valley production, this sec
tion cannot develop its resources to
the maximum or secure maximum
pofriLs on its production.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley last
year produced less than 10 per cent
as great a volume of vegetables and
fruit as the city of New York alone
consumes. Shipments from the Val
ley into that great consuming cen
ter represented less than 2 per cent
(Continued on page two.)
CONTOUR MAP
OF COUNTY TO
PROVE AN AID
Cameron Third County
In U. S. to Secure
Map Showing One
Foot Contours
Cameron will be one of the three
counties in the United States to
have a topographic survey show- ,
ing one-foot contours, according to
Colonel C. H. Birdseye, chief or
the topographic engineers of the
U. S. geological survey, who spent
Wednesday and Thursday in the
county inspecting the work being
done by the government crews
now in the field.
Colonel Birdseye was accompan
ied by W. H. Griffin of Austin,
chief of the Texas division, who is
in direct charge of the survey in
Cameron county. The party was
accompanied by E. O. Messter of
Dresden, Germany, engineer and
head of a firm manufacturing a
recently patented machine which
prints topographic maps direct
from aerial photographs by means
of stereoptican control, a machine
which was pronounced by Colonel
Birdseye as “almost uncanny” in its
operation.
Work on the survey which start
ed last fall is expected to be com
pleted in thirty days. Aerial pho
tographs covering the 940 square
miles of Cameron county were
completed three w'eeks ago. and
the county map. which will show
all improvements and cultivated
and planted areas, will be made
direct from the photographs and
will be perfectly accurate in every
detail. The contour lines, showing
every change of elevation exceed
ing one foot are being prepared by
the surveying crews and will be
ready to apply to the aerial map
at an early date. It is probable the
completed map will be ready with
in a few months.
Map to Aid Development
The topographic map will be of
great value to irrigation and drain
age districts as well as to the
county engineers in connection
' with highway construction ana
flood control. The contours will
show distinctly the proper location
for drainage of all kinds, irriga
tion canals and where flood pro
tective works will prove most effi
cient. It will cover all of Cam
eron county with one-foot contour
lines with the exception of Padre
island.
An added use for the aerial map
was brought out by E. O. Messter,
German engineer, who demon
strated that under the stereoptican
the improvements on the various
farms could be brought out witn
amazing accuracy and even their
size and height measured. The
aerial map is expected to prove a
valuable adjunct to the office of
the county tax assessor, providing
what Messter termed a visual rec
ord of all improvements in the
county. The assessor’s office is
now using the soil survey map,
made by the department of agri
culture, as a basis for farm valua
tions, and this in conjunction with
the aerial map will provide a per
fect record.
In negotiating with the U. S.
geological survey, Cameron county
engineers pointed out that due to
the fact the terrain is practically
level, any map not showing at
least one foot contours would
prove of questionable value in con
nection with irrigation, drainage
and highway .work. The depart
ment has mapped hundreds of
counties on three to ten foot con
tours, but previous to this the only
maps showing one foot contours
are Galveston county. Texas, and a
county in the flat area of Louis
iana. In both counties the drain
age problem is very similar to that
in Cameron county, Colonel Birds
eye stated.
Lauds Valley Section
“This is my first trip to the
Lower Rio Grande Valley, and I
have been impressed with the won
derful possibilities of this section,”
Colonel Birdseye said. “The soil
is extrerm y fertile, the climate de
lightful, :,nd I am confident that it
is destined to become one of the
greatest producing areas in the
world. The map now being pre
pared should prove of great value
in connection with future develop
ment of the county's resources.”
Colonel Birdseye commended
wTith considerable enthusiasm the
w'ork of the Southwest Aerial Sur
veys of Austin, which made the
photographs for the aerial map.
The work was done by John Miller
and Robert Coltharp. who used the
Brownsville airport as their base,
taking over a thousand photo
graphs. Their flights were made
only during clear weather, with the
result that all photographs are re
markably distinct, and were pro
nounced by Colonel Birdseye as the
best his department ever secured.
A number of Valley engineers are
advocating similar maps for Hi
dalgo and Willacy counties, point
ing out that if these are secured
the entire irrigable area can be
joined in one map showing one
foot contours, which would prove
of great value in connection with
irrigation extensions, highway con
struction, drainage or other im
provements. Also, they state, these
maps would be absolutely accurate
in every detail.
In Cameron county the parties
of government engineers handling
the ground surveys started their
work at the Willacy county line
and have secured the contours on
practically all of the county with
the exception of the lower section
and part of the coastal areas.
New Method May
Determine Worth
Of Improvements
A community that wants a new
street in the future may have to do
more than present the bill to the
tax payers, says the National asso
ciation of Real Estate Boards in an
article on special assessments in its
weekly series on subjects having
to do with the land.
Methods of raising funds for
highways, sewers, sea-walls, and
subways, by levy against property
owners, are being revised in many
parts of the country to meet chang
ing property conditions, points out
the association.
Scientific methods of determining
the exact pro rata benefit in dollars
and cents of public improvements
to property owners, before the im
provements are made, are replacing
the old systems of opening the
street first and sending out the bills
later.
The greatest change is in the new
practice of ascertaining “benefit
zones” within an area and taxing
these zones on the basis of the
benefit received. This differs from
the old plan of spreading assess
ments over an area in proportion to
its size, regardless of particular
benefit. For the new systems take
into consideration all the fine shad
RABIES MENACE
CONTROL URGED
Immunization of Valuable
Dogs and Destruction of
Others Suggested
Control of rabies in San Antonio
has proved very effective in that
city, according to Captain Black of
Brownsville, veterinarian in the
medical reserve, who returned re
cently from that city where he put
in 15 days of actual service as vet
erinarian of the Second Division.
In checking up the results ob
tained in the army camp and in
the city of San Antonio, the local
veterinarian found that systematic
vaccination and tagging of all dogs
within the city has completely
eliminated the rabies menace.
The veterinarian recommended
as an emergency measure the de
struction of stray dogs, and the
immunization by vaccination of all
valuable dogs.
“Dogs do not have to be bitten
by a rabid animal to contract the
disease,” Captain Black said. “It
can be picked up from the saliva
or through the fever. Cases have
been known where puppies have
contracted the disease in suckling a
rabid mother before she showed any
signs of rabies.
"The potential danger to persons
and to livestock at this season of
the year is alarming. Coyotes and
skunks often contract the disease
and spread it among valuable herds.
Such source of infection is always
difficult to locate and destroy.
“I believe it is the duty of every
citizen to aid the authorities in the
present emergency by destroying all
worthless dogs and immunizing all
others against this menace to pub
lic health and safety.”
SLEEPER AND POE TO
AID AGGIE CEREMONY
COLLEGE STATION. Tex.. April
6.—l/P*—Judge W. M. Sleeper of
Waco, will deliver the commence
ment sermon, and the Rev. Floyd
Poe, pastor of the City Temple
Presbyterian Church of Dallas, will
preach the baccalaureate sermon at
the fifty-third commencement exer
ment exercises of the A. & M. Col
lege in June. Dr. E. P. Humbert,
chairman of the commencement
committee, announced.
The sermon will be delivered on
June 2 and the baccalaureate ad
dress on June 4.
ings and gradings of benefit, from
the site of an improvement to the
land next door, and on to the
farthest reached of the city, even
out into the country where some
slight throb in the pulse of a remote
community may show that some in
fluence of the improvement has
been felt there.
Assessments Are Not Taxes
Assessments for local improve- j
ments are not taxes in the ordinary
sense of the word. An assessment I
for the cost of laying a sidewalk, for
example, is neither a general nor
a special tax. The idea that under
lies special assessments for local
improvements is that the property
upon which the improvements are
constructed will be specially bene
fited over and beyond the benefits
to the public at large. Assessments
are made on the basis that property
enhanced by a neighborhood Im
provement (which may include new
streets, public buildings, subways,
etc.) should bear the cost of the im
provement. The expense of laying
sidewalks may be constitutionally
charged to abutting land owners,
for although assessments are not
taxes, they are in the nature of
the taxing power. The right to
make assessments lies in the same
sovereign power of the state that is
exercised in the levy of taxes.
Special assessments may become
due at anv time during the year
and are first payable to the city or
village collector. After a certain
date each year, special assessments
must be paid to the county collector.
And. as with taxes, an opportunity
is given all property owners to be
heard if they do not think the sums
imposed on them are fair. Of course
special assessments do not occur as
regularly as general taxes, nor are
buildings considered in apportioning
j an assessment .it being assumed
(hat the land receives all the bene
! fit.
It has been said that special as
(Continued from page two.)
Traditions Make
French Province
Lose Population
AUVILLAR. France, April 6.—(JP)
Buildings may be had rent free here,
although there is a housing crisis
in the rest of France. This is al
most a deserted town. The popula
tion has diminshed by three-fourths
in a few generations. It now to
tals only 500 an dvacant houses and
business blocks are falling into ruin.
All through this department of
Tarn-et-Garonne, one of the rich
est in France, there are fewer peo
ple each year. In less than a cen
tury the population has shrunk from
250,000 to 160,000. The whole re
gion is prosperous, but there are
few children.
Sociological investigators say there
is a settled family policy of birth
control. Every property owner
an heir, but most of them dread
the division of property that nearly
always occurs in France when there
is more than one child. It is this
love of a big estate to go down in
tact from generation to generation
that is blamed for the fewmess of
children.
Along with that stubborn worship
of property, say the sociologists,
there is a similar stubborn adher
ence to old traditions, making it
difficult for new ideas of hygiene to
spread. Consequently there also is
more than normal mortality among
young and old, accentuating the
depopulation that follows the severe
birth control.
A remedy, distasteful to the
French, is in sight. Italian families,
young, vigorous and prolific, are
coming in, renting or farming on
shares the land that many owners
are unable to work. Eventually
these Italian immigrants buy some
. of the smaller farms when there is
; a division or when the lack of chil
dren leads aged owners to sell. Sev
i eral thousand Italians have estab
lished themselves in the department
i since the war.
Canal’s Status is
Told by Miller as
U. S. Gives Fund
<Special to The Herald) i
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., April
6.—Following advice from Wash
ington a few days ago that the
secretary of wrar had authorized
construction work on the intra*
coastal canal, Roy Miller, active
vice president of the Intracoastal
Canal association today issued a
statement reviewing theK present
status of the project in the various
sections from New Orleans to Cor
pus Christi.
“In view of the announcement
from Washington that the secre
tary of war has authorized the
commencement of construction
work on the section of the Intra
coastal canal in Louisiana from
the Mermentau river to the Cal
casieu river, a distance of approxi
mately 37 miles, it has occurred to
me that a brief summary respect
ing the existing status of other
sections of the waterway may be of
interest to the general public.” Mr.
Miller said.
His statement continues:
“First, it should be stated that
the canal, from the Mississippi
river to Corpus Christi. is divided
into ten sections as follows:
“Section 1. Harvey route. New
Orleans to Morgan City; distance
107.2 miles; estimated cost. $4,610,
000. Plaquemine roufe. Plague
mine. La. (on the Mississippi river
112 miles north of New Orleans)
via Atchafalaya river to Morgan
City; distance 64 miles. Adequate
locks now exist at Plaquemine andi
little or no work is required t<;
make this route available to
gan City.
“Section 2. Atchafalaya
(Morgan City) to Vermillion
distance, 76.13 miles; estiil
cost, $2,110,000.
Section 3. Vermillion
Mermentau river; dist§
miles; estimated cost^
“Section 4. Merm^
Calcasieu river;
miles; estimated cos
“Section 5. Calcasi^
bine river (Texas
26.59 miles. No
since canal will fol
foot channel t Lalt?
deep water project.
“Section 6. Sabine i
veston bay; distance,
estimated cost, $2.86
Sabine river to Port
tance of 29.5 miles,
low existing Sabine-*
waterway, leaving onj
(Continued on
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BROWNSVILLE
j WITHPACIFIC
Daily Schedules Will
Be Maintained To
Monterrey, Torreon,
Durango to Coast
—
Through airmail and passenger
service from Brownsville to Mazat
| lan on the Mexican west coast will
be inaugurated Monday morning,
via Monterrey, Torreon and Duran
1 go. according to announcement Sat
urday in a telegram received hrre
I from Theodore T. Hull of Los An
geles, president of the Corporation
Aeronautica de Transportes, S. A.
Establishment of this service, I
which was scheduled for early ]
March, was delayed by revolution
ary activities in western Mexico.
The service opened on March 9 be- i
tween Brownsville and Monterrey,
and later extended to Durango and
Torreon. Complete defeat of the
rebel troops in the Mazatlan area
has opened the way for extension
of the line to the Mexican Pacific
coast.
The first plane to cover the new
route will leave Brownsville Monday
morning at 7 o'clock, arriving at
Mazatlan at 6 p. m. The line from
Mazatlan east will start operation
Tuesday morning, the piano leav- i
ing the Pacific coast city at 7 a. m.
arriving here with mail, express and
passengers at 6:10 p. m. Throng*
planes will operate every day wit*
the exception of Sundays.
In addition to the equipment novr
on hand at the Brownsville airport^
two of the latest type cabin planes
left Los Angeles Friday morning fonj
Brownsville and will go into servidea
to the Mexican coast. Two addi-J
tional pilots and one mechanic ar<
accompanying these planes, whicf
will give the company five machines
five pilots and two mechanics t<
take care of the business for th<
present:
A survey made by officials o
the company several weeks ago in
dicates that the route will be usee
extensively by the big business in
terests of the United States am
central Mexico. They report manj
eservations have been made fron
the interior stops for passage tt
Mazatlan, and it will be at leas
a week before this company will tx
able to accomodate all desiring fc<
make this flight. At present then
are at least 25 applications at Dur
ango for passage to Mazatlan, and
at Torreon and Monterrey the line
(Continued on page two.)
TRUSTCOMPANY
GROWING FAST
Raymondville Concern Chart
tered In 1916 Shows Re
sources of $75,965.53
/
(Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE, April 5.—The
Raymondville Trust Co. with a cap
ital stock of $50,000 and charters in
1916. has enjoyed a steady growth
until in a statement issued March
27. on a call of the Texas banking
commission, it shows resources of
$75,965.53.
S. L. Gill is president of the or
ganization and his wife. Mrs. S. K.
Gill, is secretary-treasurer. Other
directors are M. H. Dreyer. C. M.
Kenedy and Leon Gill.
The Trust company was the first
organization of the kind chartered
in the Valley. It is under the su
pervision of the banking depart
ment of Texas and has more lib
eral powers than are granted under
charters at the present time.
The charter permits the company
to act in any fiduciary capacity and
the principal business is handling
of vendor’s lien paper. The form
also acts as trustee in any trust
wrhere an individual could act and
as administrators of estates.
The trust company recently haj
been selected as trustee for the
Grande National Life Insut
company, and will hold and^
for this organization dividj
cruing from the foundejj
which at the expiratioi
will automatically pj
issued with the
The charter,
was granted
commissioner^
banking, bi
it was iss
was i
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