Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1918 — LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY [ARTICLE]

LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY

Very Favorably; Impresses Mr. andMrs. D. S. Makeever. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Davisson returned Saturday from a trip to the lower Rio Grande valley, Texas, where, in company with County Commissioner D. 8. Makeever and wife, they ..ad gone on an eight day land excursion. Mr. and Mrs. Makeever left them on the return trip at Fort Worth, and from there went to Sayre, Oklahoma, to see • the latter’s brother, John A. Randle, not having learned of his death the week before. From Sayre they intended to go to Alliance, Nebraska, to visit a few days and did not expect to reach home for a couple of weeks later. Mr. Davisson states that they hpd a special train from Kansas City, made up of land excursionists, and that it was a very pleasant trip and Mr. and Mrs. Makeever were so favorably impressed’ with the country that the former bought sixty-one acres of improved land lying on a fine boulevard in the corporation of McAllen, Texas, for which he paid S4OO an acre, and expects to spend the winters there. This is an irrigated section and they have a most delightful climate there the year around, it is said, the gulf breeze making the temperature more even than in almost any other section of the country. They raise alfalfa, corn, grapefruit, oranges, lemons, tangarines, figs, etc., and Mr. Davisson- brought home with him some corn, also oranges, lemons and grapefruit picked from trees there. From Houston, Texas, they took a traction line to Galveston and took a plunge in the gulf waters. All enjoyed the trip immensely and were very favorably Impressed by the possibilities of that section of the Lone Star state.