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I^HE building of the new deep water, sea level seaport . now under construe tion and nearing completion in the Southmost Gulf Coast section of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas creates many new and very special opportunities for every present and future citizen and investor of Southern Texas and Northern Mexico. The creation of these new opportunitiei can be made to add hugely to the early and permanent welfare and prosperity of every present and future man, woman and child who may reside or invest on either side of the Rio Grande for hundreds of miles In either direc tion. To insure for the present and for all time, and to continually enlarge such welfare and prosperity for every one living or investing in this favored portion of North America all that is needed is proper, suitable and sufficient teamwork. In order to hasten and to always maintain this proper, suitable and sufficient teamwork it is important that everyone learn to know well the special opportunities created by this new seaport, and also the many already ex isting advantages of the Rio Grande Valley and vicinity. Each and every citizen or investor can catalogue and help to point out and emphasize to themselves and to others many of the spe cial opportunities and advantages of this new seaport and of other portions of Southern Tex as and Northern Mexico which it will serve. In this way and in many other ways all can assist in doing their part of the needed teamwork which will benefit every one. Our many already existing advantages are made up, not only of our location, soil, climate, water, oranges, grapefruit, winter gardens, cotton, corn, cattle, oils and other wealth but also of our people. The richness, progressiveness and agree* ability of the minds, hearts and souls of the people of any section of the world can always be the means of adding greatly to the richness, demand for and market value of its soil, cli mate and other wealth. In this favored section of the Rio Grande Valley and vicinity we have a citizenship both in the Republic of the United States and in the Republc of Mexico which now adds and will continue to add great value to all its material advantages. We have here the blending of some of the best blood of many countries of the old world with great native races found in the Western Hemisphere when Columbus discovered it. This makes for the Rio Grande Valley and vicinity for hundreds of miles in all directions from our new seaport a citizenship which is unsurpassed in potential, ability, .merit and wealth by any other citizenship of any section of the world. The rapid growth and development of this citizenship, combined with our many spe* cial opportunities and advantages and large additions of citizens and investors from other sections which are now assured by the build* Ing of our new seaport will sdoil make tKi merits of the Rio Grande Valley and vicinity well known to the world. This will help to make our new seaport section and many other portions of Southern Texas and Northern Mexico parts of the choio* est places of the earth, in which to live in win* ter or summer or all year, to visit at any and all times and to invest for permanent safety, satisfaction and profits. Teamwork, and always more teamwork, in learning better to know and also in telling more and more others in a continually better and more productive way of the many exist ing advantages and of the many new special opportunities which will be created by this seaport, is one of the greatest and most effec tive kinds of service which all people of this favored section can render to themselves and to others. This is one of the kinds of teamwork which within recent years has made Los An geles and Southern California grow in popu lation and wealth faster than any other portion of North America. By the right kind of teamwork we can and will accomplish not only what Los An geles and Southern California have accomp lished in the way of growth in population and wealth, but can accomplish still more by mak ing improvements on what they have done* For special opportunities and investments which this new seaport will help greatly to increase in value, and for further information please see any of my associates, representatives or agents at any place, or write me, 1502 Jefferson street, Brownsville, Texas. Yours Truly, I. M. PUTNAM EAPORT