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i i * * , i . a . a.n ■ <■■■ a , 3 ..■ mm ■ ; ' ' ' ' * ■ <5 rpHE completion of the new seaport now under construc X tion in Cameron county, Texas, will help to make this county and all other portions of the Rio Grande Valley and vicinity a great manufacturing and distributing metropoli tan district. 9 This seaport will provide markets to and through all the seaports of the world for all needed and useful products which can be prop erly manufactured and distributed from many portions of Southern Texas and Northern Mexico. The completion of this seaport will there fore mark the beginning of a pew era for Cam eron County, for all of this wonderful Valley, and for many other places in the vicinity for hundreds of miles in each direction. A great growth has already been made in this section by the development of orange and grapefruit groves and winter gardens, and other products grown because of its rich soil and unexcelled climate. The .continual expansion of the develop ment of products of its soil alone will add much new weaW» and growth to the entire Rio Grande Valley ar^vicinity. The completion this new seaport will open up many new maV^ets for the wonderful products rtf the soil fr<J m all of this rich sec tion, and tht^fore ^jjl make a larger demand and better prtev |^r t Aese products, and will naturally increasev\alue of all lands. In addition to tPe ne\&r era of better prices and larger markets for the products of the soil which the completion of this new seaport will make, there will be added the beginning of a new era of great wealth and prosperity creat ed by manufacturing and distributing many new products from various portions of Cam eron County and other sections of the Rio Grande Valley and vicinity. However great the wealth and growth can become by the use of its soil, the additional wealth and growth which can be added by the manufacturing in and distributing from this section can be made to become many hundreds of times greater than all the wealth it • will ever beposible to make from raising pro ducts from its soil, even though every acre should be cultivated or grazed to the best pos sible advantage and the prices for everything so produced should be the best obtainable in markets of the world. The completion of this new seaport will make, for every city, town and community, not only of Cameron County but also of all other parts of the Rio Grande Valley and vi cinity, an opportunity to become a prosperous and wealthy manufacturing and distributing center. Supplementing all the possible wealth which each place can make from the soil in its vicinity, every place in this whole secton of Southern Texas and Northern Mexico can now prepare to add still greater wealth by manu facturing many useful and needed products, and distributing large portions of such prod ucts through this new seaport to other mar kets of the world. Many large, and many small and medium sized manufacturing plants will naturally be located at and near this new seaport, and at and near other places in the Rio Grande Valley and vicinity of Southern Texas and Northern Mexico. Whole trains and truck loads of manufac tured products and also of products from the soil will in time be arriving almost constantly at this new seaport for shipment to the mar kets of the world. These trains and trucks will in turn take back to the place from which they came and to many other places other products made at or near this new seaport, or shipped from other parts of the world. m • This whole section, therefore, will be greatly enriched, not only by its own manu facturing plants, but also by the trade and business created with all places that ship through this seaport. % For spvecial opportunities and investments which this new seaportWnU help greatly to increase in value, and for further inform ati«» please see any of my associates, representatives or agents aH^ny place, or write me, 1502 Jefferson street, Brownsville! Texas. ] \ Yours Truly, \ I. irtyftJTNAM