Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1920 Page: 4 of 8
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MERCEDES TRIBUNE
MERCEDES TRIBUNE «QQ TO THE VALLEY,” WOULD
BE GREELEY’S ADVICE TODAY
BY TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO.
J. F. RECTOR Jr.—Mg’r and Editor
Subscription 2.00 per Year in Advance.
Entered as second class mail matter at
the post office &t Mercedes Texas, Janu-
ary 23, 1914 under the act of March 3,
1879.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Tribune is authorized to an-
nounce the following candidates for
the respective offices subject to the
action of the Democratic primaries
July 24th:
For District Clerk:
. C. L. FORTSON
For County Judge:
V GEO. P. BROWN
Fok County Attorney:
\ J. C. EPPERSON
For (Sheriff:
V a. Y. BAKER
For County Assessor:
R. L. (BOB) JEFFREYS
For County Clerk:
R. J, KERWIN
For County Treasurer:
GEO. F. LINESETTER
For County Tax Collector:
S: M. HARGROVE
For County Superintendent Schools:
J. S. BUNN
For County Commiss ioner, Pre-
cinct 1:
W. D. CHADDICK
For City Marshal:
H.'W. PERKINS
FARMERS OF RIO
GRANDE VALLEY UNITE
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get-together meetings held at Harlin-
gen week before last.
While many benefits are expect-
ed to result from the Valley Farm-
ers’ Conference Committee, its full
value, say those who attended the
meeting, will not be manifest until
next year. The organization ~move-
ment was launched too late to en-
able the marketing of this season’s
cabbage crop through one selling
agency. The Hiaalgo farmers organ-
izations have contracted to dispose
of their cabbage through the Ozark
Fruit Growers association while
those in Cameron county have made
similar arrangements with the North
America Fruit Growers association.
The formation of the conference com-
mittee, will, however, be tne means
of bringing about more uniform
price quotations by those two sell-
ing organizations.
Many growers declare the increas-
ing market price for cabbage this
week is convincing proof of the val-
ue of co-operation. Much already
has been done, they declare, to elim-
inate the wide difference in quota-
tions on Valley cabbage.
E. C. Swann of Los Fresnos was
named chairman of the conference
Sold by Mercedes Drug Company.
Mercedes, Texas
Brownsville Sentinel Points Out the
Advantages of Farming in
This Section 4
The comic papers of twenty years
ago indulged in much alleged wit at
the expense of the farmer, picturing
him as a whiskered individual, with
hayseed in his hair, rising and going
to he with the chickens, and the
gullible victim of every shell game
operator and confidence man who
passed his way. The farmer of to-
day seldom gets into the comics. The
automobile, rural free delivery, tele-
phone, have helped to make him only
a dweller in the suburbs of the cities
and towns of the country. He is no
longer cut off from contact, mental
anld physical, the greater part of the
year with his fellow man.
Farming here is farming de luxe.
In the first place no irrigated land
can be termed far distant from some
town of considerable size. Next, tbe
holdings under irrigated tracts here
are small. One man on an irrigated
farm has his hands full in taking
care of 20 to 40 acres. Few men, even
of great resourcefulness and energy
can alone, handle more than 40 acres
A man farming a 20 or a 40 acre
farm is almost within sound of the
voice of his neighbors around him
on other twenties and forties.
Another feature of the farming in
the Valley is the amount of leisure
afforded the farmer. Vegetable crops
come in tbe winter and are off- in
three or four months. While# they
are on the land, or being cut is
really tbe only period in which the
farmer is pressed to bard work.
Gathering time sometimes brings
with it tbe rushing of tbe crop to
market, though, ordinarily, the crop
is marketed in orderly, unhurried
fashion.
The farmers planting crops after
the vegetable season have little of
the sunrise-to-sunset day, charac^
teristic of the farm life in the sum-
mers further north. A Valley farmer
except when he Is due for water
from the canal, can take off a day
go to the Point duck shooting* cross
the river, or attend a ball game. The
rapidity Of the growing season con-
centrates bis efforts over shorter
periods than other planters of the
country. No inclement weather gives
him any worry about his stock. His
hogs and cattle can run the year
round without shelter, in the Valley.
The character of his products as-
sures him of cash-on-the-nail pay-
ments, as they move from the field
to the market.
The quality of the soil is another
reason why Valley farming puts less
physical strain upon the farmer than
soil handicaps him in other parts of
the country. All over the northern
United States farmers are battling
against barren; bill sides, rock-
strewn and unfertile which yield c
bare livelihood, only by tbe most ex-
acting toil. In the Valley a rock
is a rarity. The ' soil is fragile,
breaking rapidly under the plow.
The quickness of returns from a
Valley farm is remarkable. Thou-
sands of homeseekers, who located
here only this winter, have already
received income from their farms
and thousands more, who are now
clearing their land, will reap divi-
dends in a very substantial measure
before this yea ris out. iCtrus fruit
brought from tbe nursery when two
years old begin budding the next
year, and in three years after pur-
chase from tbe nursery are in full
production. A citrus fruit farmer
knows that five years after bis trees
are planted they will be bringing in
the maximum in money. The farmer
who plants an orchard of apples,
peaches or pears in the north waits
from ten to twenty years for returns.
Mild winter, twelve months in the
year which can be spent out of
doors, an increasing and varied com-
munity life, with a touch of the ro-
mance which goes with living on the
border of a foreign country, combine
to make the iRo Grande Valley a
pleasant place to live. Its climate
conditons and the fertility of its
soil assure money returns per acre,
at a rate never dreamed of in more
northern latitudes.
When the manager of the big
league club now training in -Browns-
ville advised his men to consider
seriously the purchase of aVlley
land he was giving advice which was
applicable, not only to his players
but to every man whose ambition is
to found a home. The Valley is pre-
eminently a home land. Its people,
drawn from all quarters of the Uni-
ted States, are an accurate cross-
section of American life. Its health
advantages are remrakable. If Hor-
ace Greeley were living today he
could properly advise not “young
men go west,” but “young men go
to the Rio Grande Valley.” It af-
fords one of the finest home lands
in tbe world for young men of am-
bition.
Fortunately enough young men
are aware of what the Valley is of-
fering to insure us a happy, healthy,
live enterprising citienship—Browns-
ville Sentinel.
committee, and O. O. Saffer, of Rio
Hondo, secretary. Following the
election of a chairman the meeting
was thrown open for discussion of
marketing conditions. The need of
absolute co-operation by the farm-
ers was urged by practically every
committeeman from tbe two coun-
ties. The necessity of trading thru
the one source, even though the
truck buyers tempted by offering a
few dollar more a ton for the pro-
duct was stressed, it being charged
that tbe truck buyer was merely
playing politics to disrupt the or-
ganiation and then place the mar-
ket where he wanted it.
The meeting however, went on
record as not being antagonistic to
tbe legitimate cash buyer of any pro-
duct but advised that he be sold to
Traffic Truck
The lowest priced 4000-lbs capacity truck in
the world
It takes 10 acres.tin grow the fged a team of horses
consumes in n year. Traffic Trucks feed on gasoline,
which is cheaper. It costs on an average of $1.20 a
day to feed a team—for $1.20 worth of gasoline a
Traffic will haul a 4,000-lb load 56 miles in 4 hours.
Figure it out for yourself, brother—and besides, the
Traffic is the lowest priced 4,000-lb. capacity. truck in
the world. It saves you hundreds of dollars in first
cost and cuts the cost of hauling with teams in half.
See it today.
TRAFFIC MOTOR TRUCK CORPORATION
St. Louis, Mo.
W. W. VANN, Valley Distributor
Mercedes, Texas
JACOB F0SSLER
CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
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Estimates Furnished
Free on Application
MERCEDES, TEXAS
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E. G. MASON
PUBLIC
AUCTIONEER
Sells anything, anyplace, anytime
Mercedes, Texas
through the agency authorized to
handle the output Instances were
cited where cabbage would vary from
five to ten dollars a ton in the, dif-
ferent communities and the need for
the farmers’ agencies keeping in
touch with each other to obviate
this condition was pointed out. A
motion to this effect was moved by
Wm. Lovelace, representative from
Leeland, and was unanimously en-
dorsed.
Attention was called to the inves-
tigation started from Mission as to
why the farmer was getting about
two cents a pound for his cabbage in
tbe Valley and it was selling for ten
cents a pound in the Houston and
San Antonio markets and the meet-
ing moved a resolution endorsing the
investigation.
Next in importance to tbe organ-
ization and market price discussion
was the discussion of car shortages.
Several committeemen reported that
they had been unable to get cars
when they needed them and as a re-
sult, their cabbage had been forced
to remain on the wagons for two or
three days.
A motion to send Dr. H. H. Har-
rington to Houston to confer with
President J. S. Pyeatt of the Gulf
Coast Lines vras adopted and a fund
of $50 was raised among the dele-
gates to defray Dr. Harrington’s ex-
penses. It was also decided to re-
quest Dr. Harrington) to, if he
thought it necessary, take up the
matter with the U. S. Bureau of
Markets and with Sam H. DixSon,
state marketing agent. Delegates
present pointed out that it was not
so much of a question of a car short-
age as it was a shortage of loco-
motives to handle the cars.
It was decided to hold a second
meeting of the committeee at Mer-
cedes March 24 and to invite repre-
sentative of the authorized agencies
to meet with them. At the mercedes
meeting it is hoped that a plan of
organization will be ready for sub-
mission. A tentative plan for the
marketing system was presented by
T. C. Richardson, demonstration
agent for Cameron county.
Among the delegates at the meet-
ing were:
E. D. Clark, Weslaco; Mr. Hub-
bard, San Juan; M. T. Wiley, La
Fbria; ■ Mr. Baggs, Mercedes; Wm.
Lovelace, Wilson Tract and Lee-
land; B. T. Barton, Harlingen; C.
W. Boner, Raymondville; Mr. Mey-
ers, Pharr; O. O .Shaffer, Rio Hon-
do; Lee Prosser, Pharr; L. L. Dun-
can, San Benito ; E. C. Swann, Los
Fresnos; E. T. Hockaday, Browns-
ville and T. C. Richardson county
demonstration agent. Besides the
delegates there were a number of
interested growers in attendance.
The meeting convened at 8 o'clock in
the evening and did not adjourn
until 1 o’clock tbe following morn-
ing.
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New Idea in Transportation.
A “locotractor” has been developed
for use in Africa. Tbe weight of the
car and cargo is supported on metal
rails, but the vehicles are driven by
rubber-shod wheels running on pre-
pared strips of road metal on each
side of the tracks. This arrangemeni
is said to be very effective.
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Charming Materials for
Delightful Summer Frocks
With Summer almost here and
Dame Fashion and the weather
both demanding light weight and
attractive gowns, we are showing
this week a
BIG ASSORTMENT OF
VOILES
GINGHAMS
35, 45 and up to 85 cents a yard
IDEAL MATERIALS THAT MAKEUP PRETTILY
Also a Big Assortment of Plain and Fancy
Bordered Ruff lings for Trimming
SUMMER MILLINERY
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Just Received, many notable additions to our stock of
Stunning millinery, in the newest weaves and braids
and the most distinctive styles of trimming.
ALSO BIG VARIETY OF SPORT HATS.
Excelent Values at from $6. to $13.50
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High Cost of Living
until you trade with us. We have the
quality and prices
COFFEE
Our stock of Coffee is complete—nothing but
the best, consisting of such well known
brands as
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Sunset Folger’s Golden Gate
Hill Brothers Wamba
Don’t overlook our fine line of meats, sliced
in the most up-to-date way on the up-to-date sheer.
VEGETABLES
We always have as big a variety of fresh
vegetables as it is possible to obtain
Catholic Aid Society Bake Sale SATURDAY
The Mercedes Cash Grocery
Oscar Seibert, Proprietor
Mr. Farmer, Let Us Have Your Eggs.
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Rector, J. F., Jr. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1920, newspaper, March 19, 1920; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1018964/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.