Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 359, Ed. 1, Wednesday, April 29, 1903 Page: 1 of 4
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BcoumsmUe JUmlg Herald.
VOL. ELEVEN.
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS WEDNESDAY APRIL 29 1903.
NUMBER 359.
CONSOLIDATED IN JULY 1893 WITH THE DAILY COSMOPOLITAN WHICH WAS PUBLISHED HERE FOR SIXTEEN YEAH S
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
GEO L. CRUM
Engineer and Land Suiveyor.
I make La ml Boundaries a Spe-
cialty and desire to d a general
bnsiness in Cameron ai.d Hidalgo
counties. P- O- Box 35.
Office: S. W. Brooks residence.
Brownsville Texas.
rAMES B WELLS
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office cond Floor Rio Grande Railroad
Building
. H. GOODRICH. K. GOODRICH
E. H. GOODRICH & SON
Attorneys at Law.
Dealers in Real Estate.
Complete Abstracts of Cameron County
Vept in the office.
BROWKS J I LLE. TEXAB
H. TORN
m DKNTIST.
OFFICE NEAR MILLER HOTEL.
Elzabeth St. Brownsville Texas.
jj F. W. KIRKHAM
Physician and Surgeon
Special attention to the diseases of
the Eye. Ear Nose and Throat. -Office
inTilphman Building (up stairs
Thirteenth street. Brownsville Texas.
JUVAL WEST
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Wm. Kelly
President.
S. L. Dworvo."
Vice-President.
A. ASHHEIM
Cashier.
THE FIBST NATIONAL BANK
OF BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS.
CAPITAL $50000
Surplus 20 MO
A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED.
Bays and sells Mexican money
and Domestic Exchange.
Foreign Drafts issued on all
points in Europe.
DIRECTORS.
William Kelly C. H. Maris
Robert Dalzell A. Ashheim.
S. L. Dworman M. Alonso.
Health Airiinumtioii
San Antonio Texas
FRENCH BUILDING MAIS PLAZA.
Will practice in the federal and state
courts. Land titles examined.
W. F. DENTCETT
Staple & Fancy Groceries
Cigars smoking and chewing
tobacco Fancy candies
cakes and crackers
Full line tin ware crockery Etc.
Washington Street.
Beautify Yourome
BY BUYING eZ
Wall Paper
FROM
P. J. YIYIER.
He has jfulljjine samples
Decorative Wall Paper.
Prices ffroni 5 cents per
roll upwards.
J.
You Want the Best.
Your Physician aims to put
all his knowledge experience and
skill into the prescription be
wiiles. It is an order for a com-
bination of remedies which your
case requires. He cannot rely on
the result unless the ingredients
are properly compounded.
Bp fair to your doctor aod
to yourself by bringicg your
prescriptions here. They'll be
compounded only by registered
pharmacists who are aided by the
largest stock of drugs in this part
of the States everything of the
finest quality that money can buy
or experience select.
J. L PUTE6NAT& BRO.
BotiCxI del Leon.
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J.S.&M. H CROSS
Dry Goods Boots & Shoes
BBOWJTSVLLLE Texas and MATAMOBOS Msxico.
WINCHESTER ARMS AND AMMUNITION
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JU DEALER IN flf
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Jt Ji W W -Mt J-l J- JLU KJ JU
A MODEL PLANTATION.
Shelf and Heavy Hardware
r AORI CULTURAL IMPLEMENTSj
ili
JU Tin and Wooden Ware
tie Wupperraan Nou-Breakable
White Enameled Ware
iti Sheet Tin and Iron
i!i Round and Flat Bar Iron
White Lead Lubricating Oil
in Turpentine Paint Varnish
tet and Window Gass
Mixed and Dry Paints for JJ
Carriages and Buildings mi
'Jarriage Wagon and Build-
ing Material. in
Sash Doors and Blinds to st
order. g
Lime Cement and Bricks. jjj
Agt. for John Finnigan & Co.
JU Pays the Highest Prices for Hides Skins and all ConDtry Produce JU
'W Iff
Sheriff John Closner's Beautiful
San Juan Plantation Near
Hidalgo.
From the Advance.
Last Wednesday afternoon Mr.
John Closner invited the scribe to
take a ride down to his plantation
and if some of the mossback and
skeptic land owners of our county
had seen what we saw they would
either turn green with envy or at
once get a move on themselves.
When we arrived at the gate on the
left of the lane and west of where
the ditch crosses the road we enter-
ed the new sugar land and drove
all through it. The ditches were
running for the first time since
they were opened and so carefully
have the ditches been leveled and
graded that the flow of water to
all parts of the field is perfect.
There are over 150 acres of sugar
cane that was planted in January
and the stand is all that could be
desired. Beside cane there are
about 20 acres in alfalfa and it
was growing beautifully. Alfalfa
is one of the best if not the best
f jrage crops in America and after
it is once well rooted will stand
any drouth to which this section
is subject. The only difficulty is
gc it started but when you
can turn water on to itatyour will
you have a sure thing. In the
Northern states five or six crops of
alfalfa hay are cut each season
and there is no reason why six or
seven or eight crops can not be cut
in this climate. Only think of the
immense profit to say nothing of
the economy of a few hundred acras
of alfalfa irrigated.
Brick makers are hard at work
moulding and kilning the brick for
the new sugar mill which will at
once be constructed on the main
road and next fall San Juan will
be one of the most attractive points
between here and Brownsville. Neat
brick dwelling houses will also be
erected for the engineer and super-
intendents. We then passed on down to the
head of the ditch which is directly
on the river bank. Formerly Mr.
Closner met with much trouble and
delay caused by the eratic changes
in the river in frontof his pumping
station and this 'ear he conceived
the idea of placing his pump and
boilers on flat boats in the river
and the plan works to a charm.
Neither erosion nor acretion affects
the water supply. The only re
quisites are good guy ropes and
piping sufficient to lenghthen or
reduce as occasion demands. And
the further purpose is served of
being able to move the machinery
wherever it is needed.
The new centrifugal pump has a
capacity of 6000 gallons per min-
ute and starts a stream of water
which resembles a young river and
is amply sufficient to water all
the crops on the plantation and
they cover about 400 acres of
ground.
What attracts the attention 'on
this plantation is the cleanliness of
the fields. Weeds are not allowed
to grow between the rows and
everything has a thrifly appearance.
There are acres of fineonions pota-
toes beans cabbage and in fact
every known vegetable. Potatoes
planted in Junuary will be ready to
in May. Onions grow to enormous
size and cabbage heads weigh as
high as 35 lbs. Thero.are may
patches of corn that have receive
no water from the ditch and very
little if an' will it need to mature
it in six weeks more.
Last year Mr. Closner scattered
the seed of one single head of millet
over the ground and this year as a
result he has about two acres of
that most excellent forage.
From the pump we passed on
down through the banana grove.
The plants are all Gne and have
had no water this season except? the
rainfall.
A small but thrifty orchard of
fruit trees all in bloom or bearing
is evidence that our soil and climate
is adapted to horticulture. There
are several fine trees of mariano
plums which bore fruit last year
and this year they will be loaded.
A few orange trees loaded with green
fruit is proof that we can do as
well in that line as can Florida or
California. If a few trees grow and
flourish why can't a thousand?
The strangest thing is that
anyone after a visit to the San
Juan Plantation will doubt that
this Lower Rio grande is the finest -soil
on the American continent.
With water it will produce any-
thing plant r sugar it
cannot be surpassed and planters
have an advatage here tver any
other sugar country. There is
seldom rain enough to interfere
with any part of the work. Irriga-
tion is all that is needed and after
your land is cleared up your ditches
made and your pump at work you
have everything in your grasp.
HOW ARROW-HEADS
WERE MADE.
(Eldorado Republican.)
We did not know until to-day
how the Indians made the flint arrow-heads
that are often found all
over the country. They had no tools
toivork with and the question of
how they made them was not
answered. "Abe" Mathene' who
was ior many years a heap bier
chief of the Wahoo tribe says the
squaws broke Hint rock into small
pieces by putting it into the fire.
They then selected a suitable piece
for an arrowhead held it it the fire
until it got hot then put a droo of
water on it which "chinned off" a
small particle of the fint and by
this slow and tedious process the
squaws shaped the arrowheads. A
look at an arrow-head will convince
ono that this was the process adopt-
ed to make them as they all have
rough surfaces.
BEYOND A DOUBT.
"It's a burning shame' said the
man who occasionally thinks aloud.
"What's a burning shame?" ask-
ed the youth with the shallow
brainbox.
"That cigarette of yours" replied
the audible thinker. .
LAND BOOM
Caused by Railroad Development
in Cuba.
Havana April 22. Recent pur-
chases of land by Americans in the
Province of Puerto Principe have
caused a rush for the registration
of land titles.
The purchase of a large block of
property in the city of Puerto Prin-
cipe by Sir William Van Home's
Railroad Company has resulted in
a decided rush in real eslate value3
there.
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