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The Commoner.
VOLUME 10, NUMBER 8
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San Benito
has shipped
more truck in
carload lots
than any other
one point in
the Lower Rio
Grande Valley
this year
C. C. Powell
made $2,500
from 8 1-2
acres of winter
cabbage at
San Benito
last year $300
per acre; can
you beat that?
A DAILY SCI2M2 IN MARCH AT SAN BENITO, TEXAS
Farmers Here Have More Than Paid for Their Farms and
all Improvements With One Crop of Winter Truck
"Vlint ilo you pity for frcnli truck of
nny klnil during Februnry, March or
April That in when tho Sail' Bonlto
country marlcots Its truck products.
That 1b why wo got tho top prico, why
truck raisers horo aro enabled to male a
from $200 to $500 per ncro. We Hiipply
the innrkct tit n time when there urc
few competitor!.
San Benito Is tho whiter garden of
tho nudon. Cubbago, cauliflower, on
ions, beans, poppors, tomatoes, egg
plants, potatoes, okra, lettuce, and all
othor truck products ri-ow In tho open
flcliln during the winter inontliN. In
'tho north, oven as far south as Louisi
ana and Florida, hundreds of dollars
por aero aro spent in building hot
houses and covoiing plants with glass
in order to get them on tho market
early and got tho highest price! This
outlay is not neccNuiiry at San Bonlto.
These products grow horo tho samo
during tho winter months as thoy do
In tho north in tho summer.
Wo clto above tho case of Mr. C. C.
Powoll, who last year mado $300 por
aero not. Many plantors on tho tract
did as woll as ho, and many moro aro
doing tho samo this year. It is too
early, howevor, to givo returns from
this year's crop.
Sun Ilcnlto is an irrigated farming
proposition. It Is in tho oxtromo
southorn part of Toxas and of tho
United States. You "control the rnln
fU" at San Bonito, by irrigation.
ItH Irrigation Canal is tho largest
in tho Stato of Toxas; tho only
GRAVITY irrigation canal in tho
Lower Rio Grande Valloy. It is thirty
sovon mllos long, 250 foot wide and
twonty foot doop. Moro than seventy
mllos of main latorals or branch canals
havo already boon constructed. Tho
main canal is navigablo for its entlro
longth.
Onions have paid $350 an acre net; Cauliflower has
paid $300 an acre net; Tomatoes, Potatoes, and Beans
have paid $200 an acre net; Lettuce has paid $600
an acre net.
Wo do not wish to claim or promise that all can do this well. A great
deal depends upon the "know how." We have all the natural conditions
necessary and are able to market our products at a time when they com
mand the TOP PRICE. Tho rest is up to the grower himself.
CRYSTAL WniTE WAX ONIONS AT SAN BENITO
When your truck crop is harvested, cotton or corn
may be planted on the same ground and harvested be
fore September. The San Benito climate allows a full
twelve months of field activity each year.
Ita Climate is semi-arid and equable.
January is like June. Flowers bloom
all winter. No rainy season. Southern
most part of the United States. Sum
mers moro agreeable than those of
Chicago. No oppressive days. Con
stant and refreshing breeze from tho
Gulf, of Mexico. Best orange climate
in Texas.
Ideal location for a WINTER HOME.
You can combine pleasure and profit.
Good hunting, fishing and boating.
Only twenty miles from the Gulf and
a fine beach.
The Soil is an alluvial deposit. San
Benito is in tho heart of the Rio
Grande Delta. Many feet deep and as
rich as there is In America. Varies
from a rich chocolate loam to a black
sandy silt.
The Town of San Benito, two years
oiu, nas a population of 1,600. City
water and lights, cement walks, good
schools, business houses and churches
Settled by a splendid class of people.
Largest new town in tho Valley.
TranHpor tut Ion San Benito Is on tho
Mnln Line of tho St. Louis, Browns
ville and Mexico Railroad. Actual
work has been started on an interur
ban system to cover tho entlro tract
When completed no farm will be moro
than a mile and a half from transport
ation. Farmers will bo given the priv
ilege of constructing switches into
thelr own property at tholr own ex
pense enabling, them to load their pro
ducts in their fields and bill direct to
northern markets. Will handle freight
j uuuuiu HLuum locomotives
cars.
and
Range of ProductsNo section of tho
country offers a wider range of pro-
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coun
try in America.. In arirllHrm ...
alfalfa, cotton, corn, broom corn, citrus
fruits, grapes, melons and berries grow
..w i'dicuuun me year around.
SEND COUPON FOR ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET
Sun Benito Land & Water Co., Box B, Sun Bonito, Texnr.
Gentlemen : PJeaso send, without Incurring any obligation to me.
your illustrated booklet containing full information of your irrigated
land.
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Land may be had in this agricultural nugget
on reasonable terms. Investigate San Benito,
oend tor booklet.
San Benito Land & Water Co
Box B, San Benito, Texas, Alba Heywood, President
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