University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ScholarWorks @ UTRGV John H. Shary Collection Special Collections and Archives 1930 Points of interest in and around Brownsville Brownsville Chamber of Commerce Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnshary Recommended Citation John H. Shary Collection, UTRGV Digital Library, The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections and Archives at ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. It has been accepted for inclusion in John H. Shary Collection by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. Facts About Brownsville ': ·y: Valley Facts Established 1850. $127,000,000 assessed valuation of four Valley counties. Population, 1930 census, 22,050. $310,000,000 estimated real value. Points of Increase in paat ten years, 87 per cent. $7,000,000 gain for year in assessed valuations. Largest city in, and metropolis of rich Lower Rio Grande Valley. 176,097 populat,ion of four Valley counties. Bank resources approximately $12,000,000. Finan 550,000 acres urttler irrigation in 1930. interest cial and wholesale jobbing center of Lower Rio Grande New irrigatiqp' projects include approximately 280,000 Valley and Northern Mexico. Five banks. acres. .. Has nine paved highways radiating out of city in every direction. 570.000 acres re1ched by the present canal system. in and around Will have paved highway connections soon with Over 2,800 miles of' canals in the Valley systems. .. principal points in Mexico. Over. 100,Q~O ,acres planted to citrus.