Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 135, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 5, 1908 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. XVII. NO. 135.
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS SATURDAY DECEMBER 5 1908
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
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IRRIGATED LANDS
FOR
Soome weeks ago we published as on adTortisement an
estimate on onions grown on 107 acres of land In the win-
ter of 1007 and 1008 land adjoining La Iiomlta Ranch by
W. P. Stltes Ed Pnlllan W. E. Nlckerson and Ed O. Dustln
Secretary of tho South Texas Onion Growers Association
rjhfs estimate was made in May while the Onions were In
transit. Since then W. P. Stltes and W. E. Nlckerson have
received return on their shipments from tho 43 acres which
they cultivated. Mr JDustln and Mr. Pollian have not yet re-
ported results of their 04 acres.
The 48 acres reported on
n show the result's in a year when the markets were un-
favorable of careful cultivation good and careful pocking -and
early marketing of Bermuda Onions.. The 43 acres pro-
duced to 34 car loads containing 17001 crates netting the
growers $15394.04; the commission men $1320.00; the
erate men $2900.37 and tho railroads $8291.70. Reduced to
one acre each acre paid $358.01 net to the growerS30.70 to
the cornmission men.$68.8'I to the crate men and $192.83 to
the railroads.
The net results of the above work ore 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 $5000 and for tho one
year's work put In the bank something over $10000.
CONWAY HOIT
Rubber Hose Reels Lawn Sprink-
lers Lawn Mowers Garbage Cans
Washing Machines and Ice Cream Freezers
ArNic Line Of Crockery
:
Free Delivery
City Hardware Store
P. J. VIVIERj Proprietor
Phone 49. BROWNSVILLE TEXAS. P. 0. Box 375
fin rt
OF QUALITY
Largest and Most Complete (Stock in SouthTexas
g. Refrigerators. Gasolin? Oil end Wood Cook 'Stoves
OFFICE FURNITURE ETC ETC.
HANCOCK-LAMB FURNITURE CO. Brownsville
STHE PUBLISHER OF
The Brownsville Weekly Herald
GUARANTEES THE CLAIM THAT IT
CIRCULATES IN THIRTY0NE STATES
By Far the Best Advertising Medium
for Land Propositions in South Texas
Subscription Lists Open to Inspection Bv (Advertisers
Apply to Any Real Estate-Dealer.
The Standard
Hill is 8 to It
per cent hear
ier than other
Mills of the
same type yet
all parts are
interchangeable
with such Mills.
FOR QUICK DE-
LIVERY aad
RIGHT PRICES.
ITA-
SALE
by Messrs. Stltes and Nicker-
go
exas
AND STYLE
BRYAN AT
Given Great Reception and Delivers Speech to Immense Throng
-Vierfe. FamniK Kentrlv and Kino Panrhpe" i
l eft for
To The Herald: going on along this road the con-
Kingsville Texas Dec 4. After J version of the ranch into the farm
leaving Brownsville on Wednesday "In the Rio Grande country we saw
morning Mr. and Mrs. Bryan went to : what water would do when applied
Sarita near which place they visited to the rich soil of that Valley. Ifi
the gerat La Parra ranch.being enter- j fact we were so interested and so im-
tained with elegant hospitality by the j pressed by the possibilities of your
owner Mr. John G. Kenedy. From country that we we're extravagant
Sarita they came to Kingsville. Ar- enough to select a little bit of land
riving here they were met at the j down there with the hope of mak-
station by a throng of 1500 persons ' ing a winter home with the expecta-
lncluding the school children and a
Mexican band. Among those who
met Mr. Bryan was Congressman Ru-
dolph Kleberg of Cuero who is vis- climate more enticing and the pros-
iting his brother R. J. Kleberg at the pects down here more charming and
King Ranch Santa Gertrudis accom- 1 if you find that our coming becomes a
panied by the latter and other prom- burden to you you want to accept it
inent citizens the distinguished as one of the misfortunes of fate to
visitor was escorted fo King's Inn. i counteract the blessings which you
where a public reception was tender- otherwise have.
ed him. He afterwards addressed
the crowd from the front gallery of
the hotel being introduced by Con-
gressman Kleberg.
This afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Bryan
went to visit Santa Gertrduis the
famous ranch home of Mrs. Henrietta
M. King noted as the largest ranch
owner in Texas and will be Mrs.
King's guests until tomorrow. A quail
hunt provided diversion for Mr. Bry
an this afternoon during which forty
quail wore killed fifteen being
bagged by air. Bryan.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan leave tomor-
row morning going first to Corpus
and from there to Austin.
iilr. Bryan's Speech.
Following is a report in part of
the address of Mr. Bryan at Kings-
ville and also of Hon. Rudolph Kle-
berg who introduced him. Mr. Kle-
berg said:
"Mr. Bryan I am requested by the
good people of Kingsville to extend
on their behalf to you and Mrs. Bryan
a hearty welcome and genuine Tex-
as hospitality.
"The admiration and affection of
these people as elsewhere for you
has not been diminished by any tem-
porary defeat They still look upon
you as the apostle of pure govern-
ment as the greatest civic power in
our national life and as one of the
foremost citizens In private life.
They trust and hope that your stay
among them will be pleasant and
agreeable and that you and Mrs.
Bryan will take with you pleasing
recollections. You are sir. in the
nands of your friends.
"Fellow citizens. I have the pleas-
ure and honor of introducing to you
the great commoner; the leader stni
of the National Democratic party of
the United States one of the great
men of the world whose name will
ever be interwoven with the history
of our nation the Hon. William Jen-
nings Bryan."
As soon as the cheering died out
Mr. Bryan spoks as follows:
"Mr. Chairman Ladies and Gentle
men: We apreciate the very coroial
welcome which' you have extended
and I want to thank Ex-Congressman
Kleberg for the more than compli-
mentary terms that he has employed
in presenting me to you.
"In the short time that I shall oc-
cupy I want to say a word about
your country a word to the school
children and then I suppose I will
be pardoned if I say a word to Dem-
ocrats. I always remember the Dem-
ocrats when I think of Texas for Tex-
as has given me my largest majority
in three campaigns and my heart
out to the Democrats of Texas for ;
their fidelity and for their confidence
which has been great enough to stir-'
vive three defeats.
"First as to your country: I have J
known of Texas of course for a j
great many years. I had become ac- j
quainted with it through your rep-1
resentatives at Washington when I I
went there now about seventeen years j
ago and became acquainted with the
public men who represented the va-
rious states of the Union. About
thirteen years ago I visited Texas for
the first time and spoke in some of
the northern cities of the state. About
eleven years ago I visited South Tex- j
as Austin San Antonio and Galves- ;
ton. but this is the first time 1 have
had an opportunity to visit this sec- j
tion. Going to Mexico twice I went
from San Antonio to Laredo but on i
this trip we decided to visit Corpus !
Christi. and later decided to visit the
Valley of the Rio Grande and we are
very glad that we did for it has
given us an opportunity to see the
ranch life of Texr.i- for the first time.
We have visited factories; we have
visited farms; we have visited the for
ests of the mountains; we have visit-
the ranch lands of Southern Califor-
nia and the irrigated fields of the
Mountain States; we have been on
the sea-coast and we have been
where we could see all other kinds of
life except ranch life and this visit .-x know tnis audience would not
has given us an opportunity to visit be satisfied if I closed what I have to
two of the great ranches of the Unit- i say without some reference to poli-
ed States wo have been to -tho Ken- ' tipa niT T 1mvfi lRft the nolitical nart
edy ranch and are now going to the 1
King ranch and 1 think when we
have seen these two we can feel that
it is not necessary to see other
ranches and learn what ranch life is.
"We have also "seen the develop-
ment of your lands here. We are
witnessing this transformation that is
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K
INGSVILLE
Amfin
tion that it would bring us into this !
section of the country every year for i
as we grow older we find your genial 1
"Now a word to the children: We
are interested in children. It is not
so many years ago that I was a child
myself and even whenN I went into
politics I was so much a chlldd that
they called me the 'boy orator of the
politics L was so much a child that
up and I heard less and less of the !
title of the 'boy orator' and now that
1 my grand-children are growing up.
they don't call me the 'boy orator'
any more. My bald head has effect-
ually removed me from the period
of childhood and boyhood. I don't
complain of my bald head because
when I ran for president the first
time I was so young that the Consti-
tution and the bald spot on my head
wore all that I had to prove that I
was old enough.
"But I am interested in the child-
ren and more even than ever before
for I realize more even than when I
myself was young the opportunities
that the child has in the United States
When I was twenty-four I went back
to the college from which I graduat
ed to deliver the Master's oration and
I tool for my subject 'Citizenship' and
I presented what I thought was a
high ideal of American citizenship. 1
spoke of its blessings and responsi-
bilities but I learned more I think
of American citizenship or rather I
learned to appreciate it more in the
year that we traveled abroad than in
the years spent at home for one
finds the contrast sharply drawn when
he compares this country with other
countries and I want to say to these
school children that there is no other
country In the world like the United
States. There is no other country
that stands in the same class with the
United States. There is no other
country in the world where a child
has so much of hope and opportunity
as in the United States. The United
States is the world's teacher today in
all that goes to make up citizenship
and progress. The influence of this
country is felt today the world around
and it gratifies me to know that a
child born and brought up in the Un-
ited States has had the largest pros-
pect and the greatest opportunity of
any child In the world. I wonder
when I look In the faces of children
whether they appreciate now or ever
will appreciate the priceless blessings
of American citizenship. In this coun-
try we not only have educational op-
portunities superior to those of other
lands; we not only have government-
al opportunities superior to the peo
ple of other lands but we have relig-
ious opportunities superior to the peo-
ple of other lands and when you take
this triple bleslng of universal edu-
cation of popular government and
of religion that presents an ideal the
highest the world has ever seen you
can get some conception of what it j
means to be born and reared under
the American flag. With these op-1
portunitles and these blessings come
responsibilities and I am glad that in
this community which has developed
here so recently that you appreciate
responsibility for this school spring-
ing up here which gives your chil-
dren the chances which children have
in older communities is an evidence
that you understand the value of ed-
ucation. If you will go out into the
mesquite country and see a piece of
land that has never been brought
under irrigation and then if you will
' go into a country just like it where
I they have a great canal and where
the water has been brought out on
the land and where the land has
been cleared and crops are growing !
' you see a marvelous transformation.
! And the transformation that appears
j when water is .brought upon fertile
i land Is no greater than the transfor-
mation that takes place when the ad-
vantage of education are added
: to the natural resources and au
vantages of the country the crop that
j grows under the influence of educa-
' tion -is. my friends more valuable
and of greater worth than the crop
that springs from the soil under the
infinpnrp nf irrisntinn
of ' SI)eech to the last. I want to
say just a word to these people who
have been voting for men for 1
think most of these people did vote
for men if not they must feel
mighty lonesome in Texas for the
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Main Canal 27 miles long
250 feet wide and 20 feet
deep. 13000 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 headgates and see
for yourself.
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SAN B
On Main Line of 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 Growksg
San Benito is the Most Favored Spot
In the Rio Grande Delta Because We Havel
w
in Ab
ater
Which is the One Thing Needful
At San Benito You
The Only Gravity Canal
The Only Canal in the
We are Now irrigating'thousands ofjacres Without Pumps
Get off the train at SAN BENITO or call at our Brownsville office opposite Mifei
HoitL Write or ask for ticket giving you FREE AUTOMOBILE RIDE from Browns-
ville to San Btnilo via our Headgates. Write for Booklet.
San Benito Land & Water Co.
SAN BENITOTEXAS. '
ALBA HEYW0OD. President SAM'A.JROBERTSON Secretary and Engiattr
Cane and other products
handled on barges (20 by 60
feet) through our series of
locks and dams.
Two Splendid driven wells just brought in at San Benito.
Pure Sweet water at 180 feet
Spy vhere
AT
Water for Irrigation
W have for sale 12000
acres choice lands from 3
to 7 miles east of Browns-
ville on the
Indiana Co-operative Canal
in tracts of any ziza r stiffc
from ten acres up on eis'y
terras. It will pay you ip
investigate our proposition
E0 F. Rowsoii' & C6.
TSt White Front Office ' :"
Brownsville T xes
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A magnificent showing embracing all of (he old favorites and scores of the
new and popular novelties Vou will find it easy to make a selection here W
at any price you wish to pay. Come and bring the children. Buy early
and you will have no occasion to be in a bad humor. S3
Let us help you make your selections of Christmas Gifts. J
I HwVAR IF.TY STOR W. I
sepus college rw uoys
Special Primary and Preparatory Training Under Personal Care of the
MARIST BROTHERS
Excellent Discipline Enforced by Kindness. We refer you to patrons as to satis-
factory results attained in this school. Fall term opens Sept. 1. For catalogue or
particulars address ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE BrownsvHIe Texcsi
Water in any quantity de-
sired flows naturally from
the bottom of the Rie Grand
F into our main canal and
from there into the lateral
and out upon the fields. It
does this when the river is
low as well as when the river
is high. To fill the eaaal -v
simply lift one or more of
the eight sates Ja the Kg
concrete wall.
J
ENITO
unoance
Will Find
in the.Brownsville Country
Valley lhafhasNavigatioii
The town of San Benito la
growing rapidly. Splendid
hotel. Running water in ev-
ery room.
you get
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Wheeler, Mrs. Jesse O. Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 135, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 5, 1908, newspaper, December 5, 1908; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth147868/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .