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VOL. XVII. NO. 128. BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1908 SINGLE COPIES, 5 CENTS STANDARD WIND MILL The Material that goes into Standard Mills, the thorough workmanship and careful as sembling, make tfceni the favo ite DIRECT STROKE Mill on the Market. E. H. CALDW! i Corpus Chris ti, Texasjj The Standard Mill is 8 to 10 per cent heav ier than other Mills of the same type, yet all parts are interchangeable with such Mills. FOR QUICK DE LIVERY and RIGHT PRICES. IRRIGATED LANDS FOR SALE- Soome weeks ago we published as an advertisement, an estimate on onions grown on 107 acres of land In the win ter of 1907 and 1908, land adjoining La Iiomita Ranch, by Vy P. Stltes, Ed PolUan, W. E. Nlckerson and Ed C. D us tin, Secretary of tho South Texas Onion Growers Association. This estimate was made In May while the Onions were in transit. Since then TV. P. Stltes and W. E. Nickerson have received return on their shipments from the 43 acres which they cultivated. Mr Bus tin and Mr. Pnllian have not yet re ported results of their 64 acres. The 43 acres reported on by Messrs. Stltes and Nicker sn vnenv the results In a year when the markets were un favorable, of careful cultivation, good and careful packing and early marketing of Bermuda Onions.. The 43 acres pro duced to 34 car loads, containing 17,001 crates, netting the growers 15,394.64; the commission men 1,320.00; the crate men 2,900.37 and the railroads 8,291:70. Reduced to one acre, each acre paid S35S.01 net to the grower,$30.70 to the conunlssion men,SGS.S-t to the crate men, and 5ia2.o to the railroads. The net results of the above work are as follows: These two men came here Kss than a year ago with two teams and a few hundred dollars in money, rented 43 acres of irrigated land at $20 per acre, paid their total living expense labor bills, rent cost of crates, freight and all other incidental expenses, amounting to a little over $5,000 and for the one year's wort:, put in the bank something over $10,000. CONWAY a HOLT Rubber Hose, Reels, Lawn Sprink lers, Lawn Mowers, Garbage Cans, Washing Machines and Ice Cream Freezers fee Line Of Crockery IpCN City Hardware Store Phone 49. P. J. VIVIER-, Proprietor BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. P. 0. Box 375 g OF QUALITY AND STYLE Largest and Most Complete Stock in South'Texas Refrigerators, Gasoline, Oil and Wood Cook?Stows 4 OFFICE FURNITURE, ETC., ETC. MANUULifv-iAivitt KJVdHi i uiui, w., urownsvme Sthe publisher of (The Brownsville Weekly Herald GUARANTEES THE CLAIM THAT IT CIRCULATES IN THIRTYONE STATES gBy Far the Best Advertising Medium for Land Propositions in South Texas Subscription Lists Open to Inspection Bv Advertisers MR. BRYAN IN CAMP IS HAVING A GREAT TIME SHOOT ING DUCKS. His First Camping-Out Hunt in Ten Years Adapts Himself to Condi tions and Is a Boon Companion Bagged Seventeen Bucks First Day. (Howard S. Willatos in Monterey News ) Camp Bryan, Near Los Aldamas, Nuevo Leon, Nov. 25. Out in the open, with a jolly lot of sportsmen for camp comrades, Mr. Bryan is enjoy ing a life free from care, worry, or work. He has thrown himself into the duck hunt in the characteristic manner in which he does all things, with his heart and soul. If around the camp Are one tells a story Bryan is sure to follow it with a better one, and he tells his jokes and stories in an easy, quiet tone, all his own. He is.a good listener and no matter how bewhiskered a joke told by any man In the camp, Mr. Bryan is all at tention, and the first to laugh. That courtesy for which he is fa mous, just as in a drawing room, he shows in camp. The difference lies only in the setting. He adapts him self to camp food, camp life, as a duck takes to water. Last night he slept in a tent for the first time in ten years. He said this morning that this was his first hunt, in ten years, that he had been on where he had slept out in the open. He has been to Galveston, Texas, and other points on hunting trips but always had a com fortable bed in a comfortable hotel or private dwelling. And does Bryan enjoy this life, out In the woods, on the banks of a duck pond? The answer is read in his face. That face almost seems to say "joy." Everyone in camp respects the wishes of the distinguished American to say absolutely notmng aoout pon tics. Only subjects such as are dis cussed around any old camp come up, and in that Mr. Bryan joins. Mr. Bryan had his first hunt and secured his first duck shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and a few minutes after reaching the "blind" especially prepared out of mesquite boughs, for hlra. by his hunting companions. Mr. Bryan remained at the duck pond until after 5 o'clock, and his gun brought down seventeen big. fat ducks. This- number equals previous records of Mr. Bryan's. After killing the seventeen he waited some time longer, hoping to bag just one more to break his record, but the ducks were on to him and so took flight to numerous ponds in the vicinity. Mr. Bryan has a complete hunting outfit with him, including, rubber boots, with hip extensions, a hunting coat, with white broad brimmed felt hat The hat is highly prized by Mr. Bryan. Several years ago it was sent to him by his Texas admirers. On the the band, in silver letters appears "From Silver Dick, a lover of Bryan." When Mr. Bryan laid low his first duck, he called out: "That's number one, fellows." When the second hit the water fol lowing the report of the Commoner's gun Mr. Bryan . gleefully called. "There's the second." And so on until the last bird fell. This morning Mr. Bryan was out at the blind at C o'clock, and when he went to camp at 8 o'clock he car ried seven ducks with him. Bryan is one sportsman who tells the truth. He kept track yesterday afternoon of the number of ducks he had killed before the birds were re trieved ', and said that there were sev enteen on the water and in the bush es. Exactly that number was found. The Nebraskan has a hearty appe tite, and passed his tin plate for sev eral helpings of broiled venison last night. At noon today he devoured several fat, juicy, "butterball" ducks, and part of a fine mallard. Unselfishness certainly forms a mighty big part of this great Demo crat, of such huge frame. He is al ways asking if he can't do something for some one. Last night two men borrowed extra Bryan pants, while their own dried out by the camp fire. He loaned an under-garment to one man, a pair of shoes to another, and offered to pull wet, muddy boots from one fellow's pedal extremities this morning. Bryan knows the name of every man in camp, in fact he knew before he. reached here, and remembered them all. He calls every man's name without the formal "Mister." The "Boys" speak of him as the "Col onel." When it was known that he had stripped all of them everybody gave three cheers for the distin guished statesman, for the time he- J ing turned hunter. j Mr. Bryan says the duck hunt is 1 already a success. He hopes to get j a shot at a turkey before leaving to- j morrow afternoon for Monterey, but j so far no one has been able to locate ; a "turkey roost." If there is a man in camp who was not before an admirer of Bryan he is now. Every person here loves William Jennings Bryan. This man of such majestic personality has made every man here his friend for life. To see him camping out in the woods, away from all formality, dig nity cast aside, is to see a true sports man having a great time in an in nocent form of recreation. DRAINAGE To The Herald: Waring, the recognized authority on drainage, says: "In the cultivation or retentive soils, drainage is the key to all improvement." To suggest to the farmer unacquainted with irriga tion that tho dry arid land he Is put ting in shape for water, will ever re quire drainage, seems to him an ab surdity, yet few are the soils which under the ordinary methods employed in supplying moisture to the soil, that do not slowly but surely fill with water, rendering In time drainage to be an absolute necessity in order that the largest returns may be made pos sible. It is practically impossible to apply just the amount and no more moisture than is necessary to pro duce the required plant growth. In fact it is in many instances advisable that a little excess be applied that the poisonous salts may be carried downward, to be kept below the sur face by cultivation. Again, with a large number of crops, winter irriga tion is advisable, at which time a washing of the soil by a heavy appli caton of water is beneficial. This ex cess of water applied during cool weather when evaporation is less ac tive, carries the salts downward, and good drainage supplied, it passess on from beneath the land to the open streams, carrying the alkalies with It. However, if free drainaee is not j available the results are entirely dif ferent The water seeDinc from can als, from ponds by the railroad, made by slovenly irrigators, and from any and every excess of, water applied to field and garden, passes Into the soil going down until it reaches the water plain, If not intercepted by an Imper vious stratum of clay or rock. In most soils the lateral movement of water is comparatively slow so slow that the amount supplied gradually raises the surface of the subsoil wat er, until it comes so near the surface as to be Injurious to plant growth, hence the necessity of assisting this lateral flow by drains, either open or tile, or both. In planning a system of irrigation, the drainage should not be lost sight of at any time. In fact the supplying of the water to the land and the re moval of any excess from off or un derneath It, should be considerd as parts of our general plan. In the Lower Rio Grande Valley the drainage problem is today of more importance than that of irriga tion. This land will produce a partial crop without irrigation. If it is al lowed to become water logged it will produce nothing, not even saltbusji. A general system of protection against flood water and for drainage, should be at once planned and exec uted. It must necessarily be public property and retained as such, free from all private controlling interest. A public flood channel dammed and controlled by private interests would be doubly obstructed. All the low lying channels which have acted in their natural condition as drains and overflow channels, should be retained as such, cleaned and deepened when necessary, and kept clear of all ob stacles to stream flow. Channels in tended for drainage should never be used for irrigation canals. They can not be made to serve both purposes successfully. To use a drain for irri gation would necessarily require the use of stop gates to divert the water. The use of stop gates would cause the filling of the drain with silt and shortly there would be no drain. With Grande become flooded, you would be In worse condition than were the country still In the condition that na ture left it. Build permanent and well protected head-works at the intako of the flood channel on the- Rio Grande when necessary protect the river bank from overflow from the headworks to the Gulf open up to sufficient capac ity the main channel from the head works to the Arroyo Colorado, con nect all natural drainage with the main drain, enlarging when neces sary, locate other main lateral drains connecting all farms with the natural drainage, building these as necessary then with this aid make the Arroyo Colorado a large canal connecting with the Intercoastal canal-to-be. W. R. ROCKWELL, Irrigation Manager U. S. Dept. Agri culture. Main Canal 27 miles long, 250 feet wide and 20 feet deep. 13,000 acre feet of storage. 4 sections separat ed by Jocks and dams. Wat er stands 4 feet higher In ,each section than in the one 'riPYt hplnvr rift TnWo nF lnf erals, or branch canals now jcompleted and in operation. iTake our free aurnmnhilp trip to the headsates and see I jfor yourself. Water in any quantity de sired flows naturally from the bottom of the Bio Grande into our main canal and from there into the laterals and out upon the fields. It does this when the river is low as well as when the river is high. To fill the canal -we simply lift one or more of the eight gates in the big concrete wall. SAN B ENIT On Main Line of Gulf Coast Railway I9jMi!es North of Brownsville The Delta of the Rio Grande is the Most Favored Region on the Continent for Farming, Trucking and Fruit Growing San Benito is the Most Favored Spot In the Rio Grande Delta Because We Have) Water in Abundance Which is the One Thing NeedfuJ At?San Benito You Will Find) The Only Gravity Canal in the Brownsville Country The Only Canal irOhe Valley that has Navigation We are Now irrigating thousands ofacres Without'Pumps Get off the train at SAN BENITO or call at our Brownsville office, opposite HUkr Holel. Write or ask for ticket giving you FREE AUTOMOBILE RIDE froia Browns ville to San Benito via our Hcadgatcs. Write for Booklet San Benito Land & Water Co. SAN BENITO, TEXAS. ALBA HEYW00D. President SAMJA.J ROBERTSON, Secretary and Engineer Cane and other products handled on barges (20 by GO feet) through our series of locks and dams. .The town of San Benito is growing rapidly. Splendid hotel. Running water in eT ery room. I 1 Two Splendid driven wells just brought in at San Benito. 9 m Pure Sweet water at 180 feet H Sry vhere you gel. Water for Ir ligation AT COST V havf for sale 12.000 acres choice !ands from 3 to 7 raSes east of Browns ville on tbe ndiana Co-operative Canal i in tracts of any size f suit froia ten acres up or easy terras. It will pay you to investigate our proposition 'ft & O G.'Sw? vSSA Tae White Front. Office BrownsviHe, T"xas I Holiday Opening Sale I llcturned From the Xorth. Mr. G. W. Smith, a prominent bus iness man of Cleveland. Ohio, has ar rived in the city and will spend some time In this section with his famly. who have been here since the early part of the year, his son, Paul Smith, being interested in scientific re searches in the Valley and on the coast near Point Isabel. Mr. Smith was accompanied to Brownsville by his daughter. Miss Mabel, who went to Cleveland to visit him and whose return is highly gratifying to Browns ville society, with which she is very popular. They were met here by Mrs. Smith and her sister, Mrs Reid, who came up from Point Isabel, where they had been sojourning since Miss Smith's departure for Cleveland sev eral weeks ago. During their stay in Brownsville mey win ue guesis ai uie New Miller. Mr. Smith, the head of of the family, has visited this section on a former occasion and has un bounded faith in the future of Brownsvile and the Valley of the Lower Rio Grande. ! MoiciapNoyember 30 13 ill I 111 I g U1C11 UU1 OLUl wm cm xnLi. iomig, pauu for mother, father, sister, brother, the girl, the boy and j baby. Come, aod bring mother with you. -:- -:- gj I IE VARIETY STORE I a? No Trouble to Show Our Goods & iLcl St. Joseph's College For Boys Special Primary and Preparatory Training Under Personal Care of the MARIST BROTHERS Excellent Discipline Enforced bv Kindness. We refer you to patrons as to satis (aetory results attained in this school. Pall term opens Sept. 1. For catalogue or particulars address ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, BrownsvUIe, Texas. Lctncis Apply to Any Real Estate Dealer. Hal lam Co Ionization Company i J K i i