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THE MERCEDES NEWS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1928
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SEMI-WEEKLY
Published each Tuesday and Friday morning at Mer-
cedes, Texas, in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, by the
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postoffice at Mercedes, Hidalgo County, Texas.
REPUBLICANS TALK ABOUT HOOVER.
Senator Borah, who is now speaking in sup-
port of the Republican ticket, said in a speech
made some time before Mr. Hoover became a
candidate:
“Whatever may be the great ability of Mr.
Hoover, there is one individual who he does not
know exists in this country, and that is the tax-
payer. He seems to think that money comes
like manna to the children of Israel from Heav-
en and not from the sweat and toil and sacrifice
of the people.”
.Gifford Pinchot, a prominent Republican
leader, in an article published in the New York
Times some time ago said that Mr. Hoover:
“Was opposed to the farmer and that he
(Pinchot) frequently heard him abuse the
farmers. His feeling toward them was so bit-
ter as to lead him to refuse to guarantee a
price for the production of pork, when such
guarantee was the only thing that could assure
the absolutely necessary supply of this indis-
pensable food for our allies and ourselves.”
Senator Nor beck, Republican Senator from
South Dakota, said in a speech in the Senate on
April 20, 1928:
“I listened to Senator Sackett’s speech (laud-
ing Hoover) trying to find something that
Hoover had done for the farmers of this land,
and I did not find it. I have been here seven
years, and he is the one man who has never
raised his voice against agricultural inequality.
This may be because he comes from a country
that has a different kind of national prosperity.
England depends on low wages and cheap food.
He was 43 years of age before he took any part
in this country. He should not be elected
President.”
William Allen White, Republican editor, who
recently made and then denied an attack on
Governor Smith, said in an editorial shortly
before the Kansas City convention: “Hoover
is a timorous, fat capon.”
Senator Curtis, now Mr. Hoover’s running
mate, said in June, 1928, speaking of Mr.
Hoover:
“The convention cannot afford to nominate,
as the head of the ticket, any one for whom
the party will be on the defensive from the day
he is named until the polls close on Election
Day.”
These statements were made before the
nomination, and now these Republicans have
to defend their candidate as best they can.
However, the campaign has already progressed
to the point where Mr. Hoover is not an issue.
Nobody is against him, and nobody is for him.
If the present tendency goes much further,
only those with a good memory or who look up
the record will know who is the Republican
candidate. The vital personality of Governor
Smith has swept the country, and everybody is
for or against Governor Smith. The platforms
and the issues have been merged in his strong
personality. Governor Smith IS the issue. No-
body cares about Mr. Hoover, one way or the
other.
-o—--
FARM PROBLEM RECOGNIZED.
Most of the leading journals of the country
have awakened to the fact that policy of our
government the past few years has been detri-
mental to the cause of agriculture. Perhaps
this policy has been one of good faith but
nevertheless positive injury has been done. The
department of the interior has been thoroughly
imbued with the idea of reclaiming all the
waste lands of the United States and turning
them over to intensive cultivation.
Every conceivable form of reclamation pro-
ject has been fostered by that department add-
ing more land to cultivation when there has
been more land farmed than was necessary to
supply the country with all the foodstuffs it
needed. This policy has created an overproduc-
tion and caused unnecessary hardship on farm-
ers who have been in the business all their
lives.
The department of agriculture has added
fuel to the fire by directing all its energies
toward increased production, and has paid very
little attention to whether farm commodities
could be sold. Better methods of agriculture,
increased efficiency on the farm, the use of
motive power and other modern appliances
have all increased production, but at the same
time our government has done nothing toward
solving the problems of the farmer or stabiliz-
ing the price for his surpluses.
Better days seem to be ahead for the farmer.
The press of the country taking it as a whole,
seems to be alive to the situation and disap-
proves any new reclamation scheme, such as
the Boulder Dam, Columbia River Basin and
Salt River projects, holding that these schemes
would bring more land in cultivation when it is
not needed. Both great political parties also
A FRONTIER SPYGLASS
By Ruth Alexander Shannon
A Lesson in English
“He was a palooka of the Humpty-Dumpty Fight
Circuit, a 10-round ham and egger.” It is a wonder
that the foreigner on our soil finds the English langu-
age difficult to grasp? The paragraph quoted above
was not taken from a crook story, but from a news
article in a current issue of one of our big dailies.
A physician called at a home to attend a sick child.
She told him to show her his tongue. The kid paid no
attention to the request. She asked him repeatedly.
No response. She asked him to open his mouth, and
the child seemed dazed. Finally when the mother
returned to the bedside the doctor asked if she could
not induce her offspring to present his tongue for
examination. The mother then turned to the patient
and commanded—“N]ow open your gobbler and stick
out your lolliper”—and the desired result was forth-
coming. No wonder the world needs Esperanto.
Wichita, Kansas, has apparently quit manufacturing
hooch and has gone in for airplanes. Thus may the
famous Kansas town be redeemed.
TSo Sister Aimee found Paris not so wicked after
all. And Aimee must have been terribly disappointed.
Accounts of the Byrd Expedition to the South Pole
stand out in cool relief among the rest of the hot stuff
occupying our columns.
There was a man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise.
Whene’re a flapper passed his way,
He covered up his eyes.
“To look at Ben Turpin is to laugh,” we are told.
Personally when I look at Ben closely, the tears begin
to gather in my astigmatic eyes. I can’t find a laugh
in an eye full.
And someone had the audacity to ask me if I se-
lected my husband in a blind-fold test.
We are told that the complexion of ladies living in
foggy states are the most beautiful of all. The same
effect can be obtained by wearing veils.
Save Your Pennies Gals
A new invention is a slot machine where a lighted
fag can be delivered for a copper cent.
Either the movie queens who portray the underworld
ladies are rattling good actresses, or else they have a
bit of devil in their makeup.
I snatched a Sunday paper with avidity, thinking
I saw my mug staring at me from the corner. But the
caption read—“I am now able to do my own house-
work.”
“Aunt Het” looks so much like an old friend of mine
back home that I know the words Robert Quillen has
put into her mouth before I read them.
New Kind of Fodder
We also read in the papers that the Denver Zoo
family is being “fed on budget.”
Did it ever favor anything else?
Prominent Woman’s Club favors Gas program.
I just realize what a comparative stranger Jack
Frost is in the Valley since a small boy asked me
what he looked like and where he lived.
In reading of so many accidents and tragedies both
by plane and auto, we are prone to forget* that once
upon a time old Dobbin shook a wicked leg. I myself
can recount numerous incidents of killed and maimed
and disfigured folk. Of little Annie Richmond with
the imprint of a horseshoe on her pale forehead. A dim
recollection of the spreading branches of a tree along
a country lane and men working frantically over the
broken body of Jim Whitworth. Of another farmer
who was dragged by the foot. And how staid, depend-
able old “Lucy” burst her traces and dumped the
occupants of the buggy in the dust of the road to
suffer long-mending injuries. And we all have known
instances of people falling from their own good props
for no accountable reason. So why stay at home to
escape danger?
A little dog
With a little flea
Is barred from good
Sas-si-i-tee.
Handwriting analysis seems to be the principal in-
door sport at the present time, and while I cannot
qualify as an expert, I would say that the man who
signs my weekly check is honest, dependable, and
appreciative. That he is very prompt in reciprocating
favors. That he is, take it by and far, a rattlin’ good
bozo.
A Little Mixed
Robert came home from Sunday school and told his
mother that he learned a war song. Very much puzzled
she began to question him. He could not be mistaken;
it was about General Pershing, and Red Cross work,
and about taking up the bodies of soldiers, he sup-
posed, in his four-year old logic, to bring back home as
he had heard discussed so often. Finally his mother
asked him if he could remember just a little bit of
that wonderful war song, so different from the usual
Oh-be-Joyful effusions. Robert thought a moment,
then began to sing—
Rescue the “Pershing”
Care fer the dying,
Snatch them in pity
From sin and the grave.”
This morning particularly, my column has been
punctuated with pushing and pulling. And now the
sun bursts forth.
are making farm relief one of the major issues
of the campaign.
Undoubtedly the next congress will pay more
attention to the needs of farmers in the way
of helping them establish more orderly avenues
of marketing, and giving them financial aid by
way of commercial credits to help them store
and carry surpluses. The government, in our
opinion, should pay more attention to these
vital matters and less attention to high sound-
ing and grandiose development schemes.
The Facts About Flood Control
In the Lower Rio Grande Valley
(Continued from P'age One)
The people who lived in Harlin-
gen at that time, and a large group
of men from San Benito who came
to their assistance, came up here
and took charge of that old canal
building it up by sandbags and
strengthening it in every way pos-
sible and watched it night and day
for almost two weeks. By holding
this canal they kept the water from
flowing east into the old Tio Cana
Lake and forced the water out north
into Willacy county. By this effort
they saved the north end of Cam
eron county from devastation and
kept the City of Harlingen from be-
ing inundated.
If any citizen of Harlingen has
any doubt about the correctness of
this we suggest that he consult with
Lon C. Hill, Sr., a resident of that
city, and Col. Sam Robinson, for-
merly sheriff of Cameron county,
and now a resident of San Benito,
Who were here at that time and
helped man the levees.
* * *
Willacy County Sues
a result of ,this action on the
part of Harlingen some two hun-
dred citizens of Willacy county
pressed claims, aggregating one-
half million dollars, against the
American Rio Grande Land & Irri-
gation Company who owns the canal
system and other properties in this
territory. Although this was a Val-
ley-wide flood and that canal served
to protect the north end of Cameron
county from devastation, and al-
though the American company in no
way participated in forcing the wat-
ers to the north, it resulted in some
one-half million dollars of claims
being pressed against it by citizens
of Willacy county, and if the hat
was ever passed around in Cameron
county or any assistance whatever
offered them in that unfortunate
situation we have not heard of it.
The American company was left
alone to get out of it the best way
they could.
After that 1922 flood it was clear
that if any progress was ever made
in the Valley it would have to have
complete flood protection for both
counties. Hidalgo and Cameron
counties both secured the permission
of their state taxes to be used for
the purpose of flood protection. Both
counties issued bonds with these
state taxes thus remitted as secur-
ity and the Hidalgo county adminis-
tration, together with all our people,
in good faith undertook jointly with
Cameron county to construct flood
works which would completely pro-
tect all localities. Because of the
stoppage of the resacas in Cameron
county, Hidalgo county was already
absorbing more than its proper
share of the flood waters but, not-
withstanding this fact, agreed to
waive that feature of the situation.
Although the 1922 flood, which
was probably the largest flood ever
to enter the Valley, only carried
110,000 second feet, as an additional
precaution and assistance to Cam-
eron county it was agreed that the
maximum flood waters would be es-
timated at 120,000 second feet, and
to construct flood ways in Hidalgo
county which would carry that much
water.
They further agreed that 7/12
of the water, or 70,000 second
feet, would be turned down the
Arroyo Colorado, and 5/12, or 50,-
000 second feet would be turned in-
to the north floodway. Cameron
county on its part agreed to take
7/12 of the water down the Arroyo
Colorado and construct levees or
other flood protection devices on the
Arroyo to take care of that much;
it further agreed to construct a
floodway in the north end of Cam-
eron county, connecting with the
north floodway of Hidalgo county,
so as to take 5/12, or up to 50,000
second feet of water.
The idea surrounding the whole
arrangement Was to so construct the
flood works on the Arroyo that it
would take the first 70,000 second
feet of water, as it offered a natural
floodway for that purpose, and
would endanger no locality. If there
should be an excess over 70,000 sec-
ond feet of water as much of such
excess as possible, up to 50,000
second feet, was to be turned to
the north, for the protection of the
north end of Cameron county and of
Harlingen. It was thought advisable
to have as little water as possible
running to the north, because the
water would have to be run between
possible way to run 50,000 second
feet of water to the north was
through the Tio Cana Lake.
At this juncture we want to re-
mind our Harlingen readers that the
only security which Harlingen could
have in the matter of flood protec-
tion is that the first 70,000 second
feet of water be turned down the
arroyo. Any time any great volume
of water goes to the north, running
over fiat ground, between parallel
levees, constructed of the local soil,
it menaces the entire north end of
Cameron county, and particularly
Harlingen which sets in a low place.
Therefore, if any large volume of
water ever goes to the north and
the levees don’t hold it will produce
a very serious situation.
Cameron county refused to con-
nect up with the levees proposed by
Hidalgo county at Tio Cana Lake,
giving as a reason, that these levees |
would split the territory north of La
Feria in two; that it would pass
through a country being heavily
farmed and where orchards had
been grown and homes built, and it
was not within the financial ability
of Cameron county to acquire the
right-of-way in that direction.
The only other route was due
north from Mercedes, and where the
levees Would cross Mile 12 there is
a ridge and the channel passes be-
tween hills or high points, and it
would be impossible for this channel
to carry more than 40,000 second
feet, unless an excavation was cut
through this ridge and the ground
worked back towards Llano Grande
Lake, the cost of which would be
beyond the ability of either or both
counties to stand.
In view of the fact that Cameron
county would not permit the water
to go the only route that would
carry 50,000 second feet, it did the
only thing it could do, namely, con-
struct the levees the north route to
carry all the Water it is possible to
take in that direction. Cameron
county, on its part, agreed to clear,
and did clear, the space between
the levees north of 12. Hidalgo
county agreed to clear the space
south of 12, thus giving this channel
all possible capacity and undertook,
by a previous agreement, to keep
the flood channel* on the Arroyo
Colorado clear of brush as far as
the Cameron county line.
It might be well to say in passing
that to aid and facilitate the com-
pletion of this flood channel to the
north, the American Rio Grande
Land & Irrigation Company of Mer-
cedes gave jointly to Hidalgo and
Cameron counties, without any cost
or charge, an easement on over 2,000
acres of land.
THE WELCOME TENANT
and in case of a major flood, if any
large quantity of water happened to
go to the north, there would be dan-
ger of the levees breaking, and thus
inundating the whole north end of
Cameron county.
* * *
To Protect Cameron County
rp,HUS this whole scheme was de-
vised for the full protection of the
north end of Cameron county.
Hidalgo county, in conformity with
his agreement, constructed its levees
from the Granjeno west of Mission
down to the Arroyo Colorado so that
they will carry 120,000 second feet
of water. The engineers found that
the only possible way of carrying
50,000 second feet of water to the
north of Mercedes would be to turn
the channel east at Mile 12 and
empty same in the old bed of the
Tio Cana lake where the water for-
merly went under natural condi-
tions.
There is a ridge at Mile 12, so
that it is impossible to force more
than 40,000 second feet of water
over it, in the event the floodway
should run due north, and the only
Country Club a Benefit
JpRIOR to the construction of the
flood works the space now occu-
pied by the Llano Grande Country
club was a jungle of mesquite and
cactus and. obstructed the flow of
water. The golf club cleared the
property and removed all obstruc-
tion and gave the water freedom of
movement, and its work in this con-
nection was approved by the County
Engineer of Hidalgo county. In fact,
it is impossible to conceive of a bet-
ter arrangement because the land
occupied by the golf course is free
from any obstruction whatever and
maintenance of the golf course is
the best possible maintenance for a
flood channel.
Now it is apparent that whatever
agreement Hidalgo and Cameron
counties had in reference to the divi-
sion of waters here at Mercedes, the
action of Cameron county in refus-
ing to take 50,000 second feet of
water north of Mercedes through
Tio Cana nullified that arrangement.
As the matter now stands there is
no agreement and no understanding
about that. After the Arroyo takes
all the water it can, then the bal-
ance will have to go up there up to
40,000 second feet, and after that
there is not any room for any more,
and if endeavor is made to force
more water up there it will flood
Harlingen and the north end of
Cameron county.
If a flood in excess of 110,00 sec-
ond feet ever comes', unless pro-
vision is made on the Arroyo Colo-
rado, there is either going to be a
flood along its banks or in the north
end of Cameron county. On the
other hand Cameron county has not
completed its flood works on the
twin levees and over flat ground, Arroyo to take 70,000 second feet
of water. It has built a line of
levees from the Hidalgo county line
to the Missouri-Pacific bridge.
The Arroyo will take 70,000 sec-
ond feet of water now from the
Hidalgo county line to the Missouri-
Pacific bridge, but from the Mis-
souri Pacific bridge to the mouth of
the Arroyo nothing has been done.
If 70,000 second feet of water is run
down the Arroyo it will flood every-
thing in the basin from the Mis-
souri-Pacific bridge on east. This
is simply due to the fact that Cam-
eron county has not made any at-
tempt to levee the Arroyo from the
bridge on east, so as to take care of
these flood waters.
Irrespective of what they did in
reference to the channel to the north
of Mercedes, what position are they
in to complain of Hidalgo county’s
attitude toward directing water into
the Arroyo? Cameron county has
made no provision to take the water
previously agreed to, in the arroyo.
Under such conditions it is unthink-
able that Hidalgo county would turn
these waters to the north and thus
menace the whole northern end of
Cameron county, or that the people
SOLID SOUTH PIVOT SPOT
By Alfred T. Newberry
Washington, D. C., Sept. 27.—Both presidential
candidates and their campaign strategists real-
ize the powerful influence wielded by the so-called
“solid south.”
Herbert Hoover, the Republican candidate, is the
first to attempt to obtain southern electoral votes by
appearing personally in Elizabethton, Tenn., on October
sixth. Governor Alfred E. Smith is being urged to
follow suit and accept invitations of the Smith-for-
President clubs organized below the Mason-Dixon line.
Ohio is generally recognized as the “state that makes
presidents” but records of the nation’s presidents show
the sunny Dixie state of Virginia has sent eight of its
native sons to the White House against Ohio’s seven.
North Carolina, birthplace of the Anti-Smith fac-
tion organized at Asheville, has produced three natives
as chief executives, Andrew Jackson, James Knox Polk,
and Andrew Johnson. This state ties with New York
which offered Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore and
Theodore Roosevelt. New York has 45 electoral votes
while North Carolina and Virginia each has twelve.
Ohio, Virginia’s runner-up in “president production,”
rates 24 electoral votes.
Led by Virginia and Supported by the solid south,
the nation elected such leaders as George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Woodrow Wilson. The
other Virginia natives who moved to the White House
were James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry
Harrison, John Tyler and Zachary Taylor. Two coun-
ties, Westmoreland and Charles City, each produced
two presidents. Washington and Monroe were born
and Tyler lived in Charles City county.
A little Massachusetts town, Braintree, now Quincy,
produced John Adams, the second president of the
United States, and John Quincy Adams, who was the
sixth commander of the country.
Iowa will have sent her first president to Washington
if Hoover is elected while if Governor Smith wins the
office he will be the second president to come from
New York City. Roosevelt was the first.
Only one president was a native of Pennsylvania.
He was James Buchanan. President Franklin Pierce,
came from New Hampshire; Abraham Lincoln, Ken-
tucky and Illinois; and Grover Cleveland from New
Jersey. Twb presidents were reared in Vermont, Ches-
ter A. Arthur and Calvin Coolidge, the incumbent.
The following presidents were Ohioans: Ulysees
S. Grant, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, James Abram
Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Wil-
liam Howard Taft (now chief justice of the Supreme
Court), and Warren G. Harding.
first person to be arrested in a raid. The department
is now being subjected to a thorough investigation and
Edwin B. Hesse, major superintendent, is expected to
submit his resignation.
Col. Ernest W. Gibson, head of Gibson committee
that will return here within two weeks to see the
police department is reorganized and given a favorable
rating, declai’ed a military officer should be given com-
mand of the police. Military discipline and morale will
be effective among the men, he says.
Apparently Butler, now in charge of marines in
Nicaragua, was in Gibson’s mind when he declared a
marine officer should be placed in command of the
department.
No direct complaints have been voiced against Hesse,
it is known he accepted the position reluctantly. His
friends say he will relinquish his office immediately but
he hopes to remain until the force is put on a par with
those of other cities.
As Washington is unlike any other city, its parks,
government reservations and buildings being policed
by federal guards, Gibson feels the government should
aid the city in eradicating wholesale violations.
FARMER’S BEST FRIEND.
Declaring that the farm problem is the chief issue of
the present campaign, Dr. Tait Butler, editor of “The
Progressive Farmer,” at Memphis, Tenn., and " Dallas,
Texas, declares that the Democratic platform and the
position of Governor Smith make them the standard
bearers of agriculture in this fight.
In an editorial in “The Progressive Farmer,” Mr.
Butler says that Herbert Hoover “is the enemy of
culture and the privileges of pro-agriculture whenever
a question arises between the rights of agriculture and
the privileges of protected industry and commerce.”
Dr. Butler points out that with Governor Smith in
the White House the genuine farmers and their leaders
would determine the farm policy of the government.
He adds, “Who are best qualified to formulate a na-
tional policy for the future development of our agricul-
ture ? Should this policy be dictated as attempted dur-
ing the present national administration, by a mining
engineer, and a secretary of commerce; by a brewer,
a manufacturer, a capitalist and a secretary of the
treasury; and by a Vermont lawyer, a politician and
a president, or by the farmers, farm economists and
farm leaders ? Is this not an important question ? Who
are most capable to formulate our national policy for
agriculture? It has often happened to the writer to
wonder if the monumental egotism and brazen effrontry
of this trio of politician's presuming to dictate the
agricultural policy of this country has ever occurred to
them.”
The nation’s capital may experience some “marine
policing.” It will not be an innovation as Philadelphia
some years ago enjoyed the services of Brig.-Gen.
Smedley D. Butler as superintendent of public safety.
He accepted the office during leave from the Marine
Corps.
Butler took control of the force with one purpose—
to cleanup the city of gambling, vice and other law-
lessness. To the military officer who may be given
the reins of the capital department, will be given simi-
lar instructions.
The department is suffering from an epidemic of
misconduct among the policemen. Raids on gambling
places, vice centers, and bootleg havens have disclosed
police contact. In one instance a policeman was the
And Queen Marie is lonely and ready and willing
to marry an American multi-mullionaire. So we fall
back on Kipling again anent the Colonel’s Lady and
Judy O’Grady. Let’s all hope it won’t wind up in Reno.
The familiar sweeping brush of the Pulman porter
will soon be relegated to the museum since cars are
now being equipped with vacuum cleaners to remove
the morning’s shower of dandruff from your shoulders.
It is rumored that J. E. Pate of Hidalgo is going to
bring back a cargo of a hundred monkeys from the
interior to stock his Zoo. And now the recalcitrants
will claim they will be voted in the coming election.
What cross-word puzzles have taught
meaning of the words “ted” and “ret”.
The
of Cameron county would want them
to do so.
If there is anybody that has a
complaint about the flood control
program, it is not against the com-
missioners court of Hidalgo county,
but it is against the commissioners
court of Cameron county for not
completing same in accordance with
the program.
^ ^
County Has Authority
fN this connection it would be well
to remind interested parties in
Cameron county that the remission
law gave Hidalgo county the right
to construct these levees, and did
not vest any authority in the State
Reclamation Engineer. The func-
tion of that officer has been merely
advisory. He has no jurisdiction
over the flood system here, or the
right to exercise any control there-
on, but so far as the flood works
which have been constructed in Hi-
dalgo county they are completely
under the control and jurisdiction of
our commissioners court.
However, as a courtesy, and a
precaution, the plans for all work
done have been submitted to and
approved by the State Reclamation
Engineer. This includes the work
done at the point of division of the
waters at Mercedes.
According,, to the article in the
Brownsville Herald it is stated that
the Hidalgo county works at the
entrance to the Arroyo Colorado
will direct the flow in that direction.
These are built in strict accordance
with the plans approved by the
State Reclamation Engineer. In
times of major flood they will throw
all the water north that can possibly
be carried by the north channel.
There is only one solution to our
flood program in so far as both Hi-
dalgo and Cameron counties are
concerned and that is to let all the
water which the Arroyo can possibly
absorb, enter there and in this way
relieve the flood menace to the north
of Mercedes and in northern Cam-
eron county.
Cameron county will, of necessity,
have to levy the Arroyo east of the
Missouri-Pacific railroad if it ex-
pects to keep that area from being
flooded, irrespective of the quantity
of water flowing into the arroyo
at flood times. If they care to the
engineers are perfectly capable of
so constructing the levees that they
will take care of 70,000' second feet
of water, which will take care of
the situation comfortably and with-
out damage to any section of either
Hidalgo or Cameron county except,
of course, in cases of exceptional
rises.
The one sure cure for the ood
control problem of both counties is
the strengthening and deepening of
the Arroyo Colorado east of the
Missouri-Pacific bridge. The Ar-
royo Navigation District is prepar-
ing to cut a nine foot channel for
navigation purposes. This will aid
very materially, but if the bends in
the Arroyo were cut out, the chan-
nel strengthened, and sixteen feet of
water accomplished, it would solve
both their navigation problem and
Harlingen would have a port and
Would forever be relieved of any
menace of floods.
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The Mercedes News (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 88, Ed. 1 Friday, September 28, 1928, newspaper, September 28, 1928; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth651654/m1/4/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.