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vfOL. XVII. NO. 317.
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1909
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JULY 10
FREE DELIVERY GOOD SERVICE
FLOOD SITUATIO
IN THE VALLEY
Lowlands for Miles Along River Now Under
Water
mwiuw
Main Canal 27 miles long,
250 feet wide and 20 feet
deep. 13,000 acre feet of
storage. 4 sections separat
ed by locks and dams. Wat
er stands 4 feet higher in
each section than in the one
next below. 50 miles of lat
erals, or branch canals now
completed and in operation.
Take our free automobile
trip to the heaagates and see
for yourself.
I
Water in any quantity de
sired flows naturally from
the bottom of the Rio Grande
into our main canal and
from there into the laterals
and outupon 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 BENITO
On Main Line ot Gulf Coast Railway 19 Miles 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 Needful
At San Benito You Will Find
The Only Gravity Canal in the Brownsville Country
The Only Canal in the Valley that has Navigation
We are Now irrigating thousands of acres Without Pumps
Get off the train at SAN BENITO or call at our Brownsville office, opposite Miller
Hotel. Write or ask for ticket giving you FREE AUTOMOBILE RIDE from Browns
ville to San Benito via our Headates. Write for Booklet
San Benito Land & Water Co.
SAN BENITO, TEXAS.
ALBA HEYW00D. President SAMA. ROBERTSON, Secretary and Engineer
Cane and other products
handled on barges (20 by 60
feet) through our series of
loeUs and dams.
The town of San Benito U
growing rapidly. Splendid
hotel, Runnins water In ev
ery room.
Two Splendid driven wells just brought in at San Benito.
Pure Sweet water at 180 feet
1
GOOD EATING
OUR SPECIALTY
I
Less
Running water in all rooms. Clean, cool and modern in
respects. cAmencan plan and oArnencan cooking.
Rates: $2 and $.2.50 per day. Special rates by week pr
month. Lr. J. I UJKiNliK, f ro
I.
WARREN & CROSS
Civil and Hydraulic
Engineering Architects
Maps, Plans and Estimates
Irrigation Engineering one of our Specialties
Rooms 4 and 6, Puente Building, Brownsville, Texas
jSEVERAL CANALS ARE BROKEN
Bridge at Mercedes Sagging and no Trains Cross Traffic on
Branch Suspended River Still Rising Slowly, and Heavy
Rain in San Juan Valley Indicate Further Rise
Levee Breaks at Brownsville
The flood situation in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley is bad. There's the back prairie is f,ning up. The
no denying it. From Roma in Starr Wee at thr Harmpn mnph i ctiii
county, opposite the mouth of the San tignt but the water has reached Villa
Juan river in northern Mexico, to Nueva five miIes above town and at
i
to
ft
m
Shipments from
23-
February 17 to May 21, 1909
Onions
Cabbage
Snap Beans ..
.128 cars
. 29 cars
. I car
Brownsville, the river is very badly t;hi i.ittpr nini hn filial tha.
swollen with the flood waters from wjjicn empties into the big Guerra
the San Juan. In many places the resaca.
Rtrpsim has overflowed. The resacas
and lakes all along the valley nave now nwnori w in,irc n,,,n -1 -ti
been filled to their utmost capacity tirely under water which h'as' run V
nnd are running over. and the water nil rn!ii-nfi nni wr.ri.-ino- i V
still continues to come. Heavy rams has filled the bar R of tn w 1 1 A Pnn Wfltr Wnif
are reported as still falling m the Ur0wnsville canal VU11W &y lOi .O.U11,
vnllpv of the San Juan, which may it ; nnr min. ;nn tw. ctn;
still further augment the flood, and Iey pasture and was rising around 1 f't
at least gives small prospect of its the water and lignt plantf whicllj i C
T-nnilll 1 n !' VArV fiflOn. hnyiTatmr. - f '..1 1. ..ill 1 M
- ----- . . . - nuugtci, UJ IU 1UUL U UlUL'K HUS &U11
v nar damage iius ueu uuu about six inches above
X3r
cTVIISSION Station was opened 'December 15, 8
1908, and the above vegetables billed to San
Antonio on a 28 cent rate netted the railroad
company between 7,000 and $8,000. This is
over and above express shipments.
cUfalfa shipments are just beginning.
W. L. Rockwell, Irrigation Engineer for the
Government, examined the red snil fhnr miles
north cf o7Wission, on June 24th, and pronounced
it equal to the finest in Texas.
If you want an irrigated farm under the most
favorable conditions, or a town lot in one of the
most prosperous new towns in Texas, address
valley cannot at this time be esti-. The house recently erected at the
mated, but it will be considerable. pumping site o the West Browns
Several of the canals m Hidalgo viUe canal is entirely surrounded by '
county are broken, and the water water
from these canals added to the flood Below town, the lowlands are
water from the river and resacas has flooded bnt as far as can be ascer.
flooded a large extent of land. The tained, no damage has been done
river is reported as being over three The bjg majn djtch Qf tfae Indiana '
miles wide at some points. The ex- Canal is flHed and the neadgates have
tent of damage to the canals can- been cIosed The cana, . f
not be ascertained until the water re- far
cedes, as the water covers the can-, '
als at those places. The Mercedes I'evce IJrcaks Near Urovvnsville. ,
canal, the largest in Hidalgo County, At six o'clock this morning the
and one of the largest in the entire , water which was confined in the area
valley, is safe, however. ; just west of town known as Preeport
tin (jameron county, uu uuiuage uueuiteu iue niuruuu i, iiuu uie
reported to any canals, the San Beni- ' levee running diagonally from the
ito and Harlingen, which are among railroad tracks opposite the ice fac-
the largest in the valley, being sate tory began to break. The alarm was
so -far. ' 'given and a force of men under the
; In many places, however, the river 1 supervision of Officer Victor Fernan
das spread over its banks, and the dez was at once sent to the scene
lowlands all along are overflowed, to repair the break, but by the time
1 At "Mercedes. I tevr reached there the water had
! . rT , "", .0t tr. ' broken through the levee in two or
I A Herald representative went toit. 0 mnra Jfnr. i.
1 1 Mercedes yesterday to investigate the. mn - p mpn wnrIl.ort J t
omission, Texas
Snyder-Mason Lumber & Manufacturing Co.
Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Doors, etc.
Give us a trial before you buy.
We can please you.
Phone 226 Office, Levee Street
Yard, West Brownsville
EXPERIMENTING
WITH COTTON
S. AG1 J I Cl'IiTl'! AXi DEPT.
MAKES IMl'OKTAXT TESTS.
siLuaLion. ne cuuiu ku iui mci,
owing to railroad traffic be ng in-, er Qne 'paired than
terrupted by the washout between ,
Mercedes and Donna. The towr t ot , Qr three other -
Mercedes was surrounded by water, ,-,- thmne-h thi
oLiowuauu "" "'""f- ,,;; of tlat section of Freeport between
I telephone reports tope Herald state ;the r-ver and the frej M wag
that the water had risen i slightlj under from two tQ six feet of water
i since yesterday, and was still rising; Many Mexicans residing in that
siuwij. it iiau uul,
Foreimi lands Hems' Tested at
Hrovvnsrillc. Effort to Secure
Weevil Itesistant Variety.
naa not, uuweiei, cii-i...t; ,. i,; i
i.i - , c . ... UU" UV()UU C LUClt 11UUOC
terea ine main part ui uuu, uwu6 ,,, t ,i,.f r,a,.a v.7i, . . ... - : - r
W ?n several liues of investigation affect-
iTeSt I- t or i, inm thP I hno in thoir homes Relieving that -the ing the great money crop, cotton. In
'rZ'JnZ which la ta realib an water woul1 be stopped- About fift' addition to studies of improved meth-
inw ritJr hp'd nn l which ha run to one h"ndred s mostly those ods of cultivation and of handling
hP'nrrnvn, t v"nai of JIexicans the flooded dis- the crop generally, which are demon-
?Tr,nfl- Fnisti 'eithlrlwe of ct The water is standing in those strated at th South Texas Garden
tas and B. Fuisti. , on either ' Side or that are-not raised off the ground. here t Brownsville, at the San An-
merceueB, wuicu iu tum au y.vi- . constan tstream of npnnl rnn ho tnni Pvni,nnt P, n.,rn An.
bank ooon wnilin t li vnii rrli t li !-i ivntnl.K.;n : 1 :-. i : ;.k
made to preserve and build up into
an ideal plant the good qualities
while eliminating the bad.
Great interest is felt by the gov
ernment cotton experts, who are now
visiting the South Texas Garden here,
in the progress of their experiments
in hybridizing this foreign cotton
with the nativ? product. A number
of varieties of cotton from various
cotton countries of the earth which,
were planted last year at the Garden
are now in bloom and the process of
pollenating these blossoms with pol-
i f,,ii QtYii rising a nnmher of seen wad,nS through the water bring- tonio and in co-operation with a num
ifull and still rising. A numoer or. . ., , hnnsphoiti ofrontc o,i r , i.. s
: hUtf SirSi Puede i many wagon loads aVebetaghkuTeS ottte .tate. tUo dertot
and 2s?MmiSefoSthlHout- t?h"2ren, C,an be 0atinf makin investigation of a num-
sideof cuSy An S 'pfant ? Among these are the
'are sounded by the water. ancK LlLb0rnJ?ll Les.raLI27
n.X aiiaiua ui tuttun, liic uociuijiiicul ui
len from ordinary cotton is being
The United States Department of i conducted by the government cotton
One variety of cotton m particular
which it is hoped may be acclima
tized in this country is a Nicaragua
plant. One virtue of this species con
sists in the fact that its squares are
so formed and hang over in such 3
way as to prevent the weevil from
entering. i
f
flowed. These arroyos
..MV.n n.V - O - ""D" ' lUUIU clliU III LU-UUCiailUU li.ll. (4 H Hill" I
XO FLOOD DA.MAGI
AT SAXTA MAItlA.
Judge Walter A. MXeil of Santa
Maria was a business visitor in the
city todav. Judce MrXeil rennrts thnf
s - ... . . , 't i-uc ruuuuauun vuJiiuaui. at Lilt; ctrfiinc rtf rnt-nn- thp r pro nnmonf n 1 . " '
therf- occupants were ooiigea 10 aoan- sft f the internatlonal bridge is drsease resist. varieties- the dis- la'tnJ?usn the river is out of its banks
dtm their homes temporarily. undr from six to twel incifes f an0Uh flt at Santa Maria, no damage of any
Kailroad Uridge Sasgin;;. wate S. If ,5 . t VR? p, consequence has been suffered by the
The railroad bridge over the ar-.; Vatcr Xot From ISivcr. of the cotton plant, especially the . iSL t , 1 2.!?
have not been injured at all. With
the exception of the low lands, Judge
McNeil stated, all of the waste water
from the river has run into theArroyo
Colorado, and a serious overflow is
not anticipated in that section.
FIRS INSURANCE is an important question. Don't wait until
after the fire to INSURE. Select an Insurance Company whose
record and strength guarantee the liberal fulfillment of its obliga
tions, and "DO IT NOW!" We handle this class of Insurance.
VVREF0RD & BESTEllO, Agents: American Central of St. Louis. St Paul Fire and
Marine of St. Paul, Minn Office at Celford Theatre, Office hoars 9 to 12 a.tn. 2 to 5 p.m.
royo just east of Mercedes was sag-t This Vater however is not from bo11 weevil and boll worm; the in-
ging this morning, and tne tram am the rjvej. as the river at that pojnt troduction and acclimatization of cot
not cross it today. It is thought the still iacs about four to six inches tons from other parts of the world
bridge will go down before the flood , of being! out of its banks, but is the and the selection and adjustment of
recedes. This suspends all traffic back wa?ter from the resaca to the such of these as appear to possess
on the Hidalgo branch line and it is ; rear of ihe freight depot and wnich , valuable qualities,
probable that it may be several days wag flllid to overflowing by the back ' The office of Crop Acclimitization
or longer before it can be resumed. watersof the Rio Grande It is iniis especially concerned with the last
ine river ai nrowaavme vuu" : realitV from this resaca that all of! and is testing at the South Texas
tinues to rise slowly, having risen tQ ' t h, . . Freenort , Garden at Brownsvihe something
three inches last nignt it now mens and t he , over sixty varieties from Mexico,
only about two inches of reaching j not yfit overflowed er 'A ,evee Central and South America, the West
u,SI1 lalong the "Y" to the freight depot
vn me jiexicaii niue. bas been thrown up and so far the
1 dispatches received lnwsiat- water has been confined to that sec-
amoros irrmv 'ip rivrr i""Tlr last . uoa on ine wesc siae or tne tracks,
evening report the river equally as , and :t is not thought it will cross
bad on the Mexican side as on this.
A telegram from Camargo announced
that the San Juan river at that point
still continued to rise, and that all
streams tributary to the San Juan
were badly swollen Incessant rains
have been falling there for several
days, and a further rise of the river
was anticipated.
the tracks unless there be another
rise in tne river tonignt.
Source of the Flood.
To properly understand this flood,
it is necessary to know the conditions
on the other side of the river. The
storm water from the recent heavy
rains in the northern part of the state
Reinosa, opposite Hidalgo reports of Nuevo Leon, augmented by the
meiung siiuws lruui iue oieiiita uuuve
Monterrey, flowing into the San Juan,
which empties into the Rio Grande
about twelve miles above Rio Grande
City in Starr county, filled that
stream to overflowing. Rushing down'
from its mountain sources, the water
runs madly down towards the Rio
Grande, which filled with this sud
den accession of water, in addition
to the already large body of water
contained by it, as a result of the
unusually heavy rains in the valley
of last week, became filled to over
flowing very quickly.
all lowlands and flats in that vicin
ity covered "with water, and the river
was still rising yesterday afternoon.
Across the river at Santa Cruz the
river is out of its banks, extending
about fifty or a hundred yards back.
The custom houses, both freight and
passenger, on the Mexican side are
entirely surrounded by water.
InVicinity of Urovvnsville.
Reports from the ranches along
the river adjacent to Brownsville in
dicate that a large area of the river
lowlands are now under water and
Indies, Asia, Africa and Australia.
Most of these varieties have never
been brought to this country before
and of the possibilities of many of
them obtained from the Indian tribes
in the American tropics almost noth
HARLING :A H PPEV1NGS
To The Herald:
Harlingen, Texas, July S. Dr. A.
M. Letzerich of La Grange, Tex., has
purchased the drug business of Will
Mrr and taken possession. Dr. Let
zerich who has been practicing his
ing is known. Investigation of the ! profession for three and one-half
agricultural methods of the Indians
of eastern Guatemala developed the
existence of cotton there and an early
short-season type of cotton. This
was planted in Texas and at first ap
peared very unpromising, the plants
growing tall and rank and at the
very end of the season bearing here
and there a boll of cotton. After a
few season's acclimatization and care
ful selection, the variety now appears
to be as early and productive as our
own varieties. This has shown the
necessity of giving these foreign cot
tons time to become adjusted to the
new and changed conditions, a long
and unprofitable process which the
Department of Agriculture can alone
afford to do.
Some of these new varieties pos
sess valuable qualities and at the
same time certain failings. By means
of hybridization attempts are being
years at Lagrange, heard so much of
the Rio Grande Valley and its won
derful advancement, that he came
down to see for himself. He imme
diately closed the deal for the drug
store. His brother, H. J. Letzerich,
an experienced druggist will take
charge of it. The doctor will give
his attention to the general practice
of medicine.
Mr. Alf Deickman is in town ar
ranging to have his store buildine
replaced on the blocks from which it
was blown in the recent storm.
Mount K. Wild, the son of Dr.
Mount C. Wild, our dentist, has re
turned here for the summer. Mount
K. got here just in time to celebrate
his 19th birthday, July 4th. He has
been attending Yale college and nas
the distinction of having passed his
first year in Yale, completing the
same in the honor grade, before he
was nineteen years of age.
I a Donna Canal Co., Hallam Colonization Co., Sales
'THB LANDS OF THE LA DONNA CANAIi CO., OF WHICH WE ARE EXCLSIVE SALES AGENTS LIKS BETWEEN DONNA
IT IS THE ONLY IiAND FOK SALE AT DONNA, UNDER THE CANALS NOW7 IN OPERATION" OF THE LA DONNA CANAL CO.
XI ON FOR THE NEXT CROP. WE WITfLAVE IN OPERATION TOO UB PHLR MILL AND TI7POUGH THE PROPRXTY. 4
Agents,
er Ac
V THE ST, I., IS. & M., TtT. AND THE OLD 3in.ITAHY ROAD NLAH THE RIVER.
WE ARE BUILDING OX OUR OVfS PROPERTY. A SUGAR 3HLL TO BE IN mERA.
ITLWAY. WRICH WTQL BRING KVERV PART WI'Hv FY UP'rn hj.
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