El heraldo de Brownsville. [volume], May 12, 1935, Page SIX, Image 6

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What Our New Seaport Means to
the Lower Rio Grande Valley
and all Southern Texas and
Northern Mexico
This new seaport will help make
known, to enrich and to bring in contact with
the entire world the Lower Rio Grande Valley
and all Southern Texas and Northern Mexico,
from Brownsville to San Antonio, Austin, San
Angelo, Big Spring, El Paso, Chihuahua, Ma
zatlan, Durango, Torreon, Saltillo, Monterrey,
Victoria and back to Reynosa, Matamoros,
Port Isabel and the all year round balmy sea
coast of Padre Island, Del Mar, Boca Chica
and Washington Bathing Beaches.
The four counties known as the Lower
Rio Grande Valley of Southern Texas, all will
have the opportunity to soon become a part of
one great city which will help to develop and
advertise to the world the merits of all portions
of Southern Texas and Northern Mexico.
No other section in North, Central or
South America has a location so favorable for
properly building and suitably maintaining a
great and prosperous city and metropolitan
district as we have, and now that our deep wa
ter sea level seaport is nearing completion and
will soon be ready for use to connect us with all
seaport markets of the world.
Location for properly building, devel
oping and maintaining in a prosperous and
suitable condition for the citizens and inves
tors of a great city and its trade territory is
fully as important as location for any other big
business, for so building, developing and main
taining a great city and its trade territory can
and should be made the biggest of all big busi
ness.
All other lines of legitimate big busi
ness either are, or it seems should be in their
ultimate effect, only subsidiary parts of the
work which goes to help build and to suitably
maintain the citizens and investors in great
cities and their trade territory.
The location of our new seaport on the
Gulf Coast Section of the border line and fron
tier of the wonderful industrial and commer
cial races to the north of us and of the marve
lous artistic and romantic races to the south of
ut makes this the natural, permanent and most
important meeting place and metropolis of all
these growing and potentially great races of
people.
Our health sustaining climate in win
ter, summer, spring and fall, and other natural
advantages makes for us one of the rare all
year round locations suitable for permanent
residences, business and investments, for a
great manufacturing and distributing metro
politan district, and also for visitors and tour
ists every day of the year.
Because of the merits of its location and
the foresight and enterprise of its citizens,
New York has become and will continue to be
the largest city and metropolitan district of
the northeastern portion of North America.
Because of the still more and greater
merits of our location and by the use of still
more and greater foresight and enterprise,
combined with wisdom taught by experience,
we now have the opportunity to soon become
and to continue to be the largest city and met
ropolitan district of all of North, Central and
South America.
Our location and opportunities for a
great city and metropolitan district are far
superior to those of New York City.
We can produce, manufacture and dis
tribute from this section more economically
than can the New York City metropolitan dis
trict, and can therefore properly develop and
suitably support a much larger population.
As a place to visit, to build a new busi
ness, to live, to make a living and to invest for
both safety and profits our location is many
times better than that of New York City and
vicinity.
The four counties now known as the
Lower Rio Grande Valley of Southern Texas,
have grown more in population, wealth and
progressiveness in the first thirty years since
they were open to settlement than what is
‘ now known as the five counties, which make
up the present corporate limits of N*w York
City, grew in the first one hundred and fifty
years after they were opened to settlement.
With proper, suitable and sufficient
teamwork, foresight, enterprise and wisdom of
both its citizens and investors these four coun
ties of the Lower Rio Grande Valley can be
made to continue to grow more in population,
wealth and beneficial progressiveness in the
next thirty years than those five counties of
New York City have grown in the last one
hundred and fifty years.
Our location, opportunities and advan
tages are more than five times as good as those
of New York for building and maintaining a
great city, and a large and prosperous metro
politan district.
All that we need to do to thus continue
to grow more than five times as rapidly as New
York and vicinity have grown is to be worthy
of our opportunities and loyal to the many ad
vantages of properly and suitably helping to
develop and enrich, as a natural part of our
metropolitan district, all portions of Southern
Texas and Northern Mexico.
It is now up to each citizen and inves
tor to do their part of the needed teamwork
in order to most rapidly realize in the best way
on this marvelous and unusual opportunity
For wonderful growth and for great wealth and
honor sufficient for all.
h is now time for all citizens and inves
tors who are loyal to both the opportunities
made possible by our new seaport and our
other advantages, to begin to enlist for need
ed teamwork, and to train ourselves to be
come and to continue to be the world's best,
fairest, most enterprising and most beneficial
city builders.
I therefore cordially invite every loyal
present, future and prospective citizen of any
portion or investor in any and all portions of
Southern Texas and Northern Mexico to
teamwork with me in this great work.
Will you teamwork with me to help to properly build and
suitably develop and maintain for all its citizens and invest
ors the world’s largest, most beautiful, most practical and
most beneficially progressive and prosperous city and met
ropolitan district? It will give me great pleasure to have you
write me, 1502 Jefferso n street, Brownsville, Texas, and
to have you answer, I WILL.
Yours Truly,
I. M. PUTNAM
Seaport Investments