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BROWNSVILLE DAILY HERALD.
VOL. XV. NO. 189
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1907.
SINGLE COPIES, 5 CENTS
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THE RIO GRANDE COUNTRY IS ALL RIGHT
YOUR RESULTS depend on the RIGHT
IMPLEMENTS and TOOLS in the hands
of the RIGHT MEN.
WE HAVE THE RIGHT OUTFITS IN OUR LINE
- Birdsell andOld Hickory Wagons, Stand
ard All Steel S. C. Mattocks, Avery and
Hancock Disc Plows, Planet jr. Seeders,
Wheel Hoes and Cultivators, Tents, Wagon
Covers, Axes
E. H. C4LD WELL
AERMOTOR AND STANDARD WINDMILL
Our Catalog No. 10 gives net cash delivered prices,
tells all about our goods and is free for the asking.
Corpus Christi, Texas
I HALLAM COLONIZATION CO. 1
OFFICES OVER EAGLE DRUG STORE
Representing Lands Ftom Corpus
Christi to the Rio Grande
OUR GREAT
331 Per Cent
SALE
still continues. We have sold an unprecedented amount
of clothing and overcoats during the past 10 days, to
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me aiscerning ones, wno were
gam wnen iuey saw uue.
We Have a Few More
And if ou want to "get in" yon had better come
early for this chance may last "
Only a Few Days More H
We are expecting our excellent Spring lines very
soon, and Brownsville will
The Best Made Por The Least Money
"SPEROS
Combe Building, Next to Postoffice
COMPETENT
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otica del Leon
....You Want the Best
Your Physician aims to put all his knowledge, experi
ence and skiQ into the prescription he writes. It is an order
for a combination of remedies which your case requires. He
cannot rely on the result unless the ingredients are properly
compounded.
Be fair to your doctor and to yourself by bringing your
prescriptions here. They'll be compounded only by registered
pharmacists, who are aided by the largest stock of drues in this
part of the state. Everything of the finest auality that money can
buy or experience can select.
J. L Putesjnat & Bro,
ame w retogmze a uar-
of Those Bargains t
have the chance to obtain
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Elizabeth Street
PHARMACY
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W. 0. Coleman,
Real Estate
Farm Lands
Gity Property
Agent for
Bessie Land, Water and Town
Site Company
Fruit, Vegetable and Farm
Lands
TOWN LOTS AND BLOCKS
Mercantile and
Topographical Map
OF THE
CiTV OF BROWNSVILLE
For Sale by Louis Kowalski at
30 Cents Each.
BROWNSVILLE
UNDERTAKING
COMPANY
Rubber Tire Carriage on Call
, PHONE 123
LAND FOR SALE
Farms and Ranches
Tracts of 40 and 50 acres
and upward to suit pur
chasers. Situated near
Brownsville. Suitable for
Truck and Sugarcane, Cot
ton, Corn, Etc. Address,
BOX BROTHERS,
ISABEL, TEXAS,
or phone with instructions
to have message delivered.
JAMES B. WELLS
cAttorney
at Law
Successor to Powers & Maxan,
Powers & Wells, Wells & Reiitfro
Wells, Rentfro & Hicks, Wells &
Hicks, Wells. Stayton & Kleberg
I buy and sell Reai Estate and
investigate land titles . A complete
abstract t. all itles of record in
Cameron County, Texas.
Practice in all state and federal
courts, when especially employed.
Land Litigation and corporation
practice.
FRANK RABB
Real Estate Agent
Brownsville. Texas
Have for sale some choice
pieces of agricultural land
in large and small tracts.
Also have a number of
tracts pf grazing lands.
OFFICE:Slore of Juan H. Fernandez
A. GOLDAMMER
CONTRACTOR AND
BUILDER mft.
Plans and Specifications Fur
nished on Short Notice
CITY TIN SHOP
Fidel Arevalo, Prop.
All Kinds of Tin Work Done
Promptly aud Neatly,
Also Plumbing.
Patronage Respectfully Solicited
Office i Frat f CftktKc March
MOVE TO FORM
. A NEW COUNTY
From Starr, Hidalgo, Nueces and
Duval Counties.
Falfurrias to Be the County Seat To
Comprise 1600 Square Miles Names
'? of Chief Ranches Included. , in
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Falfurrias Facts of last week
contains a lengthy account of the
move which has been set on foot
by leading ranch owneis around
Falfurrias to form a new county
with that place as the county seat-
The movement is reported to be
now thoroughly under way.
At a public meeting at Falfurrias,
Capt. J. A. Brooks of the -ways and
means committee, appointed two
weeks before, reported that there
was no apparent obstacle to the
plau. He, with E. R. Rachal and
W. E. Caldwell, had made a trip
through parts of the territory af
fected by the move, and found a
majority of land owners favorable
to the scheme. Duval County does
not like to lose the land which it is
proposed to takefrom that county,
but the committee does not an
ticipate serious opposition from
that source. The Facts further
says:
"Capt. Brooks also reported, for
Mr. Lasater (who was not present)
that the Committee had been as
sured of the hearty co-operation of
Mr. Kleberg of Kingsville and Mr.
Kenedy of Sarita. Mr. Kleberg
acting for the King interests.
agreed to the line proposed by the
Committee, which puts a consider
able part of the King ranch now
in Nueces Co., into the new county.
Mr. Kenedy also agreed to the line
as far as it effects his interests in
Hidalgo County.
"On the whole, Capt. Brooks'
report was most satisfactory, and
left the impression that the Com
mittee has no doubt of the success
ful carrying out of the plans."
A committee was then appointed
to go to Austin to secure legislative
action on the subject, Messrs.
Brooks, Caldwell and Bogard con
stituting the committee.
The proposed new county is
designed to be practically 40 miles
square, thus comprising about 1600
square miles, and including parts
of Starr, Hidalgo, Nueces and Du
val counties. It will embrace a
large part of the Lasater and Jones
ranches in Starr County.the Seelig
son and Canales ranches in Duval
County, part of the King ranch in
Nueces County, and parts of the
Kenedy and Sullivan ranches in
Hidalgo County. Besides these
large tracts it includes a number
of smaller ranches, the towns of
Falfurrias, La Gloria, Paisano
Santa Cruz, Concepcion, and sev
eral smaller settlements.
Just Plain Rascals.
The man who violates the law is
neither a democrat nor a republi
can. He is a rascal. And as such
he ought to be prosecuted. Poli
ticians are beginning to realize
that honesty is the best policy. It
is now generally conceded that a
rascal is a rascal still, whether he
calls himself a republican or a
democrat. Partisanship is a good
thing sometimes, but patriotism is
a good thing all the time. There
was once a man who said to his
friends: "I wish I could die for
ray country. That man was sub
sequently brought to his knees
and confessed to his part in a plan
which showed he had bribed an
entire municipal assembly to pass
a franchise bill which he was at
the back of. Patriotism was on his
lips. Treason was in his heart.
The greatest impediment to good
government is the indifference of
citizens with regard to their duty
as such. Gov. Jos. V. Folk.
Subscribe to Thk Herkld.
FRUIT GROWING
AT BROWNSVILLE
Practical Nurseryman Tells of
His Experience.
Great Success of Fine Grapes, Walnuts,
figs and Bananas All Bear Ahead
of Same Fruit in Other Sections
of United States.
Editor-Herau): Being unable
to answer letters received from all
parts of the country in regard to
my experience in fruit growing in
the Rio Grande Valley, I resort to
your columns in the hope that a
brief statement may be satisfactory
to all seeking such information.
In October, 1904, I leased land
from P. E. Blalack for nursery and
orchard purposes, and in December
put out an acre each of apricots,
plums and figs, two acres of citrus
fruits, two of strawberries, thirty
banana plants, four acres of peaches
and a six-acre vineyard of the most
select varieties of grapes. I also
planted two bushels of black wal
nuts to be used for stocks on which
to bud English walunts, and six
bushels of peach seed. The latter
failed to come up.
In the spring of 1905 the straw-
'berries did remarkably well and I
sold a fine lot of fruit.
I sent to California, at a cost of
$25 per thousand, and secured
buds of Santa Barbara soft shell,
Mayette, Franquette, Abijo, rrae-
parturien and Parisienne walnuts,
which I budded into the black
walnut stock. In January, 1906,
I cut off the . black walunt trees
just above the bud at the ground.
The last of February the English
walnut buds opened and from the
first made the most remarkable
growth I ever saw or heard of in
my 22 years' experience in the
fruit and nursery business. By
September, 1906, some of them had
grown fifteen feet high and meas
ured three inches in diameter four
inches from the ground.
Thousands of people have looked
at these trees with perfect amaze
ment, and but for the fact that the
trees stood there as indisputable
evidence of their age, many would
not have accepted the statement as
true. I have watched these trees
with-great interest, watching each
day for insects or disease, but not
one sickly leaf or bud have I ever
found. Everyone remarks how
thrifty and healthy they are. I
believe as much as I do that I live
that the man who plants a walnut
grove will reap a golden harvest.
In two or three years from plant
ing, they will commence to bear
and will yield paying crops in three
to four years. There is scarcely
any limit to the deinad for the
nuts. I am now planting twenty
five acres in walnuts on land
bought at $50 per acre and when
the grove is set out will consider
it worth at least $800 an acre.
In California walnuts pay 20 per
cent interest on a valuation of
$1500 an acre.
GRAPES A SUCCESS
I have been very successful with
the grape also. My vines have
yielded about twenty younds to the
vine and some even more. Grapes
grown here will always sell at fancy
prices, because the same grape that
ripens in California in August, and
September ripens here in June and
July. Just about the time our
crop is sold, California is getting
ready to ship, and is satisfied with
2 1-3 cents a pound, while we can
easily get 8 cents for all of ours.
G?apes will bear a crop in this
valley one year sooner than in any
other part of the United States.
Figs here make a growth of 8 to
10 feet from a cutting in one sea-
sot: and bear fruit the same season.
My orchard yielded the first year
from the first of September to
January, during which time thers
was not a day that the trees were
without - ripe figs. The second
year they yielded a tremendous:
crop of fine fruits, more than rvro
bushels to the tree. This fruit IT
sold on the local market at 8" cents
per pound. This year I expect
still larger crop as the trees made
a growth of over eight feet last
season and have a twelve foot:
spread.
My bananas have also yielded
since last August. We. have had?
fruit every day in the grove anfi
the trees are still bearing as wt
have not had any frost to stop
them. The banana is the most,
profitable of all the products here.,
I believe. We are near the market
and there is no disease or insect o
any kind to trouble them. A ba
nana grove once set is there fox
all time. They, need little ensey
and will thrive in all parts of the -lower
Rio Grande valley and bear
large bunches of finely flavored
fruit. However, the importer
should be careful in his selection
of varieties, inasmuch as the im
porter of bananas grows the kind
producing the most, regardless off
quality, so that the finer bananas:
are never sold to the trade in North:
America. I will begin immediately
and ultimately set out 100-acres stb
the best varieties to be had1.
The peaches did fairly well1. baC
do not think the commercial peaefc
will succeed here on account of
blooming too early. Plums '&
very well but only a few varieties
are adapted, such as El Paso.
Roulet, Gonzales and Kelcy.
Strawberries planted in. ctbber
will bear in January, but plants
requre some protection through the
summer. By planting bananas she
by eight feet there is room to grow
strawberries between the rows
They require about the same
amount of water and get along:
finely together.
Parker R. Longworth, anothex
stockholder of the nursery com
pany, who is developing 500 acres
of land, is preparing ground" at:
present to put out groves of va
rious kinds, including oranges,
grape fruit, lemons, walnuts; per
simmons, figs, almonds and a vine
yard, which certainly shows, that
we are backing our experience ins
this valley with expensive develop
ment. H. G. StuxwEU-
DISTRICT COURT NOTES!
Special Venire in Hill Case, which is Set
for Feb. 19u
In the district court this morn
ing, the following petit jurors were,
sworn in for the week: Jose Gar
cia Anorga, Jose Cortez, Anasta
cio Treviiio, Wm. Volz; Walter:
Billingsley, Jesse Parsons, Anto--nio
Tamayo, Ed Vails, Chas. Br
Iey, Fred Delgado, Rodolfo Jasot.
Octavio Puig, W. H. Brady,, Thos
Turhliuson, Geronimo Lozanoy,
David Dean, and A. J. Uecx
There being no jury cases ready fox
trial, the jurors were excusetLuntEl
Wednesday.
The case of I,on C. HillhargeS
with th murder of Theodore- Bix
was set for Wednesday, the 19tb
inst, a special venire for 75 jurors;
being issued for that date. Ther
witnesses in this case were put
under recognizance bond uutiH
the said date.
The following bills were report
ed Saturday afternoon by the grancH
jury:
Francisco . Montes, robbery.
Manuel Cavallo, and Juan Villa
real, theft of neat cattle; Pablo
Sauceda and Luis Arizmendiz, jr
theft of neat cattle; and one for
murder in which no arrest has yefc
been made.
Dr" Taylor, eye specialist, at DxL
Thorn's office Brownsville, Tues
days, Wednesdays, Fridays anS
Saturdays. At Botica NuevaMata
moros. Mordas, and Thursdays
Glasses fitted. Permanently local
in Brownsville l-23-t
Idleness breaks more men tha
overwork break down.
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