The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 263, Ed. 1 Monday, April 13, 1931 Page: 2 of 10
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Fhe Daily Tribune, Monday, April 13, 1931
A.
•m
l
s
manly fig u( a
the intangible
magnetism of Richard Bart helmess
that requires action. The outflow of I
We
which »
changeu come to any locality
what will take
in to look back ovel
and tin county setled up with farm
A
4
rd i
of old California
dashixg vaquerc
Htates?
WM CASH
BUILDER
Matagorda County
of
original county
and
pre
PROGRESS
Ll
S’
long gulf and hay frontage
f
if
F-
i
e'rrEr
f
along the marshe
place
it saves
its
canal Im
■th More.
glovea
I had heard of the great Jetty sys-
lamber Phasmacal Co.
ran hope to get the canal complet
rd. but it la coming
LISTERINE
causing more damage than all the
TOOTH PASTE
surfaced mileage in
The
WELCOME
Staying Home is
Just One of the
A
Many Things
INTERSTATE PUBLIC
This New
SERVICE CO.
NELLY DON
Ooes in a
To
to take care of the outflow
Orand Manner
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we have in this mk
BAY CITY
1.95
t ion
l
mariners « hurt of fh«<
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n
the be
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it
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MATAGORDA COUNTY
You needn't be afraid to wear it
ve Ml in
w. bn the
I
We trust your coming to our city will be both pleas-
ant and profitable and that your enterprise will
Al
Jii.nl Irv One Un!
We assure vou that our entire force is at your
serv-
The Hurley Shoppe
ice in any and all undertakings looking to the de-
Al
velopment, progress and prosperity of the gulf
coast of Texas.
The Herder Rice Milling
Company
Wnds a hearty welcome to
interstate Public Service
Company
Courteous Service Always
ton of Texas
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CENTRAL POWER
AND
LIGHT COMPANY
10 states is 33 per cent and for Tex
as 11 In hut 13 per cent
H“
a
• sin
: ■ 11:
le way
of the |
does not ha
app ca! to *
would be io
ington they
r
r
fast
until j
and ।
South
Imi Ke
heavy
ship chant el
larger ships
needed
present.
the (
cotte
ill eXce
for the
w here
harbor
of her
world
duc ed
• a
the tow
on bloc •
other to
vast a'
I visualize a K
l*l* the most fea
my memo . but a visit
thowa a ‘ferent Gal
changed Gieston
the <
very
Matagorda, 20
City.
t hehn
nd arre
be i ill in twelve months that would
have taken terf years in a genera
ll may he de
a big overflow
ico o
depth
or le
I H. with 1
■ eaports
Galveston, ami
days I thought
vision of what
aau mm
we KO a
return, <
lo get these rights of way ami it is
greatly dlelaying the time when we
p
is-
4 M
pro Buy gloves with what
lann the mouth of the river
county, and a small villo or 400 1 future Mini
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their lands from the best and safest
I t h venins ii Im
and conghuates you upon your en-
try into tharivities of the coast ser
original municipality of Matagorda $20,000,000 more than in the
From various causes it seems hard
of Bay City and drilling is active in
1
< mii you
because at Wash-
hame depth at
Excellent grazing lands Oil is pro
*22
there toda »
vestor a •
Thirty th
at the most menial task, for its
large part of
peninsula to deep water tn the I ulf 1
With the greut dredging machinery
duc ed al (‘iem ville
bright youthful colors just love to
lx* tubbed . . . and its carefully
finished scams won’t let it come
.. i i . .sees him in “The Lash,"' the latest
un rich land8 8 the richest, and '
is300 miles nearer the markets, who ’ 5
is in the
Delfino
the great ship# of
will be at the Colonial theatre on.
next Tuesday and Wednesday for
of soils; black “hog wal
andy loam to sands. Live I
dentifvice I intr
haw II eleans, lx
• y the commerce of Ilie greatest
city of the South and Southwest.
Not having the vision I moved on;
and truck
have a fixed rule
in thone youthful layod until we have
I couid gel Nome
a deep water port
ive sufficient money. An
the federal government
that he han made.
ductive as soon
opened making <
Area 1 136 square miles Popula < eding
lion 1930 census 17,678 Wealth $84,- | —
of Ilie
for n few years
made pro-
* canai In
port We
10 miles west I
supply of sulphur in
g
“I
300 feet
worth al
that we see today,
re, he naw the gre
d tomorrow with
olsrrving th
e (Julf of Mrl
mikI by
mist lie opened I low
tem that was then being built at
the river I
t-is to lie
-
Y
avenger of his people’s wrongs
his living only excelled by his fight-
ing.
the watei
In almon
place where I could
growers, irrigating
Texas counties; distriet and mu '
Matagorda < ounty in gull coast ot | nicipalities voted and issued $88, !
Texas was created in 1836 ami is 199,002 in darious kind of im
• will see the
f the gulf in
that does the trick everybody who
Ti hou-e
Aga
J he k
fineut
yet to lie huilt lo < ar
setbreakwater that II w 11I be
the h land locked harbor on the
C0Aed Mime the closest fee deep
wate l the (3ult, eef any port on 1
gether delightful ik in
linget 3 it
completed? When it is a
waves, ane with the
hackberry, ash, along streams
or 500 people, with a bre court
house and bri« k jail, Mhd I rest of
Level coastal plain with
had found a ।
gee changes 1
edge where the land
worthless . and will be
drainage and add miles south of Ba
al (nif, near
UN the
right of way land Im worth before it
does come, but sooner or later if
, g, . . will he built in pile of obslrm
take place, but that Name youthul ion,
visior common to most of UN. ex
r pectd thol changes to take placei When the ",""1 I" bullI """
. in a day, ilot realizing how much wuat ’ 11 will have ll" tonnage, 10
? slower greht undertakings moved Ine rapid development, ot
1 30 or 40 years ago than they do rexas will require rient
now, and I witched the sail ships linea to bi lux 10 uh tIe
and steamahip come and go draw IflKhtH from the Ohio and MInMI
B inn 10 or 12 th of water over theIpPI river rezionn. and to cary out
I bar. and I ‘ athoring in the deep our l“,*" tonnage or HUlphUI. till.
I water of the Gr to finisn their rice, cotton. et
loadw from lightts I watched for When I! Is built tne npecirit anoni"
Ch
A.
8 1o("
’ t
w
meant. I thought I
nnot realize how
bayou cat
com tin r< e
he saw ri
Houston
greater H
the benefit of the Debate club Rich-
ard Barthelmess vows that he has
never been so forceful and so alto-
done? The river board wil lventure to Nay
Il was organ-provement bonds in the fiscal year
mimed for theending August 31, 1930, nearly
I am 11 rout'here they had to build a seven
, work ontMle jetty With thene fait a befor |
Mat acres ork does B seem fur fel< hed to via I
li producinxNze a deep water port Mt Mata
itl kind of Mm in a very abort time after the.
grow greater as the years come and go.
2 hualize again if liouston I
1" Hleepw ater <3 miles from
“"vater of the Gulf and
Id ""zreat seuport, why not
Y " 1N uly one -third lip* dis |
* Ir"htagorda, that fouston ;
Ivom "uton likewise become
"M"a the (‘olorado river
* h for it can be dreds
” Ch S easily than couid
Ahud the shallow bay.
“er stream to kerp
* "reeh out after it is
pittie in the next 20 ye
Matagorda and Bay City
in I
serapers and Ereater ing value to the adjacent lands far
that will < arrv the
Tgs in mind, and I
a rapid develop .
5 "" under the new
"M vstem, into a I
ntowing county
r Valley, with.
ole of Don Francis
ads ‘•y
five years and ulthougl many provide for the outflow of all ol
changen took plat it seemed to/me streams with at.............
me that nothin- hr chanzed and Ih" kM droueinK "• 1 annei" etc and
the Gatveston of thalong azo stiliino one will have to *" to WashinK I
ton to get congress to take care of
the mouth of the Colorado river, tor
it will be adopted un part of the
co March Canal system, and the best of en-
2g. 1898, I landed in ly city 26 xineers skili will be used to meet
miles from the nearest silrond ijthe requirement
was the county seat of atagorda , Here In where we look into the
the shore
while II la
In delig
ousness of
portion and
ritory, fror
magnitude 1
topoK raphy I
ty of .soils|
natural res
length ot |
fered for 11
agriculturel
of their br
wisdom of
ami labor:
lure materi.
every line I
ami rapidit
now in pr
of time tha
I
mentum T
I
is not soil
the Soutl il
adequat 11
normal si ll
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mighty bm
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majesty am
Whether i t is the effect of the I
dark anil expresive optics the'
mellow and powerful voice the
Crops ure cotton, corn, rice Grea
cattle country having more cattle
than any other county in Ilie Unit
eil Stales
Oysters and fish industry at Iwo
points, Matagorda and Palacios.
Pine truek lands Concrete roads
throughout the county
Bay City, county seat, has a pupil-
lation of 1070 people.
I - J ha
to . ।
TI
not nee whai with
5 miles .way Itl l
' the ...... 1 the
divided up intoreat
en where one uid
ailen without sete a
Do The Barthelmess
Eyes Do It?
hl I had a visid, a I
hr vast ar tri oh,
dn in l hr stater
out of shape. It’s so very chic,
you'll wear it shopping, picnicking
and calling with equal assurance.
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What Does The Future Hold For
South Texas and Matagorda County
tem in the Unit
ontly box hou built river, M channel < III through Hl i
Matagoi da « unis Mar) bayou directi, ... the
tan, twenty or forty years and
compare it today with what we
knew ft t • be Ht that I ime
K^hiirtv-eight year« ago in the aid asked fot river and
, prime of y. un manhood, I stepped improve ment and that rule r
'from the trulli in rather a shack you Nhow tonnaze 11> juutiry the eX
of a depot or one of the great rail -penditure"" We could not meet the
wav xystems that linn entered reguirement
Houston a railway system planned There <• howeve ’ a way ......1Kh
by a man who saw changes -in ha the Ereu....... opportunity tnat evel
mao as the prophet of ......ad In ame to Matazorda < minty and,
mind when he raid, "Without vision many ol "« are sound anleeP 10 ine
men Perth.' How I wish I could opportunity just now knot kinK at
have had that vision in my youth o...... door, tnat we hardly : “
the long aau I found at Houston a thouzht I have rererence to the In
large -over grown village" with one tracoustal Canal he ’ nited tates
five-storv "aky scraper" .ml divid xovernment has made the appropri
ed near the .-met by a < rooked, ation of $16,000,..... toconatruct the
uninviting bayou, that for all i canal from the Loulslana line to1219,000
know might had had alligators norpus Christi The money h ready
«» water* al the foot of Main to be paic...... for d KinE ......
gtreat canal, anid hundiredB of men put LoloW
27. , work junut as «iniek As the coulties oak
The man who conceived and built ti........ wii h |t passes secure the
the railroad saw the Kreat "kyIrizlitof way. The canal will ......w
BcraperM of today alid Unit mmkiv
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 263, Ed. 1 Monday, April 13, 1931, newspaper, April 13, 1931; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1554378/m1/2/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.