Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1920 Page: 1 of 8
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'T.i
INE UP WITH MERCEDES
RODUCE CO. CARROTS, BEETS
NI) jSPINACH—PHONE 74
OLUMN VII
DISPOSE
F RY. BONDS
NEXT WEEK
eeting at Harlingen
Apportions to Vari-
ous Towns of the
Valley Amount that
Each Should Buy
Concrete steps to launch the cam-
aign throughout the Lower Rio
rande Valley for the sale of $190,
00 worth of second mortgage six
ir cent bonds of the Rio Grande
ilway for the purpose of building
e line to standard guage, were out-
ned at a meeting of some forty-
ve men from all sections of the
alley, held at Harlingen Tuesday
ternoon. County chairmen were
med to conduct the campaign in-
three counties of' the Lower Val-
y, Starr, Hidalgo and Cameron, and
ecision was made to outline what
is proposed to do through pam-
hlets which will be distributed
roughout the Valley.
E. Owen Scott of Rio Grande City
as appointed Chairman for Starr
unty, A. B. Jacobs of Donna was
pointed chairman for Hidalgo coun-
y, and C. L. Jessup of Brownsville
as named chairman for Cameron
unty. /
"he meetjing was described by those
ho attended as one full or pur-
se. with the determination to
rry the campaign through to a
te with all possible speed in order
factual construction of the line
be started without further delay,
akers who addressed the meeting
oke with a point, stressing the
.ortance of hewing right to the
e with a single purpose, that of
ilding this standard guage road
Point Isabel and thus openinng the
y to building of the harbor,” said
of the delegates to the meeting,
omplete unanimity existed, and
enthusiasm was described as the
t that accomplishes what it starts
t to do.
“hose who have been most active
connection with the project, ex •
ssed themselves as being highly
ised, by what happened at the
■lingen meeting as well as by the
eral representation from all sec-
ns of the Valley.
1. L. .Jessup, chairman .of the Val-
railro&d-harbor committee, was
airman of the meeting. Letters
m the United States engineer,
jor L. M. Adams at Galveston, in-
ming the Valley people that the
an for building the road to standard
uge has the full approval of the
ard of army engineers at Washing-
1, were read, together with a state-
nt that only the completion of this
ad would resul in the opening of
(Continued on page 4)
■RODUGE HOUSE ON
AS AVE. PLANNED
, Jones, & Saladino Will Erect
odern Office, Feedroom and
Warehouse at Once
, Jones & Saladino have pur -
from the Bank .of Commerce
ust Company the vacant lot
corner of First street and
avenue. The concern will at
ommence the construction of
iern 125x115 foot office and
m.
hew building will be of brick
.ction and will house the por-
ns of the company’s business that
demand constant attention and ob-
servation. The packing sheds and
eparate from the
red a number
for the winter
uilding has be-
ommodate their
ess.
M
SEED HILL BE READY FOR
PLANTING" CARROTS, BEETS
AND SPINACH.—
MERCEDES PRODUCE CO.
PHONE 74
MERCEDES. HIDALGO COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1920
NUMBER 29
To Organize Harding and Coolidge Club Monday Might
This is an appeal to all members
of the Republican Party to meet at
the Community House Monday, Sep-
tember 6, at S:3U p. m. for the pur-
WANT CO-OPERATION
OF WATER ANO L, USERS
Company Urges Compliance With
Water and Light Ordinance. Show
70,000 Gallons Wasted Daily s
Setting forth that between 60,000
and 70,000 gallons of water are being
wasted every night after 12 p. m.,
the Mercedes Water, Light and Pow-
er Company has written a circular
letter to its patrons urging their co-
operation. The letter calls attention
to the city ordinance making it a mis-
demeanor to use water for other
than domestic purposes between the
hours of 7 p. m. and 5 a. m.
In its letter the company further
sets forth that because of the ad-
vancing cost of materials it will be
necessary to advance the water rate
in teh very hear future.
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MINSTREL DRAWS A
CAPACITY AUDIENCE
High School is Crowded for Enter-
tainment Given by Former Mer-
cedes High School Pupils,.
A crowd that over-taxed the seat-
ing capacity of the high school au-
ditorium Monday night greeted the
performance given by the alumni as-
sociation of the Mercedes public
schools. The entertainers had chosen
a minstrel show as being the most
popular .form of entertainment and
that their choice was a good one
was proven by the applause that
greeted their offerings.
The performance was for the pur-
pose of providing a library for the
high school and a liberal sum was
secured for this purpose.
The cast of characters follows:
Misses Anna Mary Sewell, Florence
Settles, Lorine Morrow, Helen By-
ars, Ruth Byars, Marion Riess, Rena
Freeman, Gertrude Carter, Meta Nutt,
Mrs. Douglas, Messrs Lester and Earl
Swaney, Caesar Bazar, Malcolm Riess
Lords Womack, and Gordon Potts.
r --o-
Is Elected Treasurer.
W. C. Eads has received a letter
from his father at Sinton telling him
of his. election to the office of County
Treasurer of San Patricio County.
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Mercedes public schools will open
Monday, Sept. 13. An unusually strong
force of teachers has been secured
in spite of the shortage.
pose of organizing a Harding and
Coolidge club.. Let every woman and
man interested in government for
Americans and by Americans be
present. As Republicans we should
show our true party affiliation. We
must and should show our utmost in-
tegrity and principal of our candi-
dates for the presidency and vice-
presidency. The success of this club
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Plan to Place Non-Riparian
Land Under Irrigation Is
Being Strongly Opposed
The United Irrigation Company of
Mission Seeks to Appropriate
Waters of the Rio Grande for
Watering of Lands Situated Out-
side the 18-Mile Limit. Compa-
nies Now Operating Oppose the
Project
depends on this meeting. Make it
your business and pleasure to be
there. Enroll on the first roll call
and do not be a slacker.
A R REPUBLICAN.
MERCEDES GIN HAS
PASSED 1000 MARX
Two-Thirds of Local Crop Has Been
Gathered and Baled to Dale;
Quality up to Standard
Two-thirds of the estimated cotton
crop in the Mercedes district has
been gathered and ginned, according
to W. D. Chadick, manager of the
Mercedes gin. At the time of going
to press the gin had turned out 1000
bales. This output would have been
exceeded had not the gin had a num-
ber of small fires and accidents the
past two weeks.
The quality of the utput continues
to be very much up to standard. The
cotton is now worth, according to
Mr. Chadick, 27%c.
BOY SCOUTS RETURN
FROM Y. M. C. A. CAMP
Canal companies and water dis-
tricts throughout the entire Valley
have joined in a protest to the Wa-
ter Commission against granting a
request for appropriation of Rio
Grande waters made in July by the
United Irrigation Company, ,the Mis-
sion project. The request calls for
the appropriation of water to t!he
lands lying to the northwest of Edin
burg and wholly outside of the pres-
ent irrigation system. A hearing of
the petition was held at Austin last
Saturday and was attended by J. J.
Elliott and W. F. Shaw of,the Amer-
ican Land and Irrigation Company
and by representatives of other ca-
nal systems.
The interests opposing the grant
based their protest upon the grounds
that these lands were non-riparian
and did not possess the Spanish
water right, that the ordinary flow
of the Rio Grande was already ful-
ly appropriated to the systems now
m existence and that Mexico has an
equal claim to one half of the waters
of the Rio Grande and thar this claim
might be asserted at any time. The
protest was submitted without argu-
ment and the board bus premised to
hand down a decision on Sept. 13.
Among the systems represente in
the protest are the Louisiana Com-
pany, the Donna, the Santa Maria.
La 1'eria and San Benito irrigation
cbstiicts, the Amend. a Rio Grande
Land and Irrigation Company, Cam-
eron County Water Imp 'ement di;
tried No. 5 and the districts surround-
ing Brownsville.
Irrigation men pom1- out mat
granting of the petition lor this ap-
propriation of water would border
on the ruinous for the systems below
Mission. In the event the board
grants the petition the systems will
fight the decision in the courts, both
state and federal, the federal for
the reason that appropriations by
the state board of the Rio Grand.i
waters,' it being an international
stream, are always made contigent
upon the will of the federal govern-
ment.
It is pointed out that the pumping
capacity .of the pumps now on the
Rio Grande amount to nearly 5000
cubic feet per second. When all the
lands under the present projects are
in cultivation, according to W. F.
Shaw, and are irrigated all the pumps
will be pushed to their capacity and
on some projects it will be necessary
to install additional pumps.
Illustrating his point Mr. Shaw
called attention to the government
ecords on the flow of the Rio Grande
From 1900 to 1913 the government
j maintained guages at Brownsville,
Roma and on the river’s tributaries
in the United States. During the
first six or seven years, before any
irrigation, was done along the river
the flow for long periods of time nev-
er went as high as 5000 cubic feet
The Mercedes Boy Scouts returned
Wednesday night from the Y. M. C.
A. encampment on the beach below
San Juan. The encampment was at-
tended by boys from every town in
the Valley and a most enjoyable out-
ins as well as a most beneficial rec-
reational and educational program
was rendered.
per second, as an example of this
the record shows that from the first
.of January 1904 to the 4th of April
of the same year the flow never ex-
ceeded 2300 cubic feet per second. The
records show that in the same year
from July 7, to September 7 the max-
imum flow was 6000 cubic feet per
second and this maximum was main-
tained for only a few days.
From these figures it can readily
be seen that the Rio Grande cannot
accommodate such a further appro-
priation of water as is planned by
the Mission concern. It is pointed
out while the present water shortage
is more a possibility than a fact the
further appropriation would make
the water shortage actual.
As a result of the activities .of the
systems petitions are being circu-
lated among the individual land own-
ers and they are being urged to ad-
ress letters and telegrams to the Wa-
terways Board at Austin protesting
gainst the appropriation.
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The average life of a man is 31
years and O, what a Lot of things he
can’t learn in that short time.
CHARTER IS
DRAWN FOR
MARKET AS’N
Executive Committee of
AnityCiub also Draws
Up Truck Gontraact.
Water Rights Are
Discussed
A charter that will meet with the
approval of the State Bureau of Mar-
kets and a truck marketing contract
that was also passed upon as being
legal during the recent visit of Judge
D. A. Gregg, were submitted at a
meeting of the executive committee
of the Valley Amity Club and of the
various farmers organizations, held
at the offices of the American Com-
pany Wednesday night.
The proposed charter sets forth
the name of the .organization shall
be “The Valley Marketing Associa-
tion.” Its purposes shall be to do a
general warehouse business, have the
right to erect and operate mills, gins,
grain elevators and storage ware-
houses for the purposes of handling
products of the farm. It shall have
the right to sell in the market on a
commission basis all the products of
the farm, ranch or orchard including
live stock. It may lease or pur-
chase cold storage plants, box and
crate factories, refrigerator ears and
plants.
It shall have the right to lend
money to its members upon chattel
mortgages for the purpose of en-
abling them to make mature their
crops. It shall have the right to
lend money on crop mortgages, pro-
vided however, that such mortgages
shall in all cases be a first lien, ex-
clusive of the landlord’s lien and
such crops to be grown. Such crop
mortgage shall be for only 50% of
the average yield of farm products
on the acreage to be grown under
.ordinary conditions.
The charter also provides for the
erection of an office building out of
the surplus earnings of the corpora-
tion, invest its funds in government,
state, municipal and road bonds.
The life of the organization is set
at fifty years. Its capital stock will
be $100,000, dicided into 20,000 shares
of $5.00 each.
The marketing contract is in con-
formity with the charter provisions
and is lenient and at the same time
iron-clad in the provisions regulating
both, the association and the grower.
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WESLACO FARMERS TO
FORM AN ASSOCIATION
A mass meeting of framers at the
Weslaco Community House Monday
night took the preliminary steps in
the formation of a farmers organiza-
tion, to later affiliate with the Val-
ley Amity Club. The meeting was
attended by about 100 farmers living
between Weslaco and mile 17.
The gathering went closely into the
plan of organization adopted by the
Mercedes Farmers Inc., and appoint-
ed a committee to work out a plan
of organization and to report back
at a meeting to he held next Wed-
nesday night.
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HOOD BOONE IS NEW JUDGE
OF THIS DISTRICT
Hood Boone, the well known Pharr
lawyer, is the new judge of this dis-'
trict by appointment of Gov. Hobby.
His appointment followed the resig-
nation of Judge Vol Taylor, who has
removed from Alice to Brownsville
and will enter the practice there as
a partner of Judge Seabury.
Hood Boone is one of the most
popular lawyers of South Texas, and
is learned in the law. His nomina-
tion for the judgship of this dis-
trict was a popular one, and Govern-
or Hobby’s appointment of Judge
Boone to fill the unexpired term of
Judge Taylor will meet with approval
on every hand.
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Hoyt, L. T. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1920, newspaper, September 3, 1920; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1060523/m1/1/?q=%22hood+boone%22: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.