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AUTO CANNOT REPLACE HORSE, PATROL SHOWSBROWNSVILLE — Newt from i automobiles. Men are stationed at Washington hat horses, and trailers Brownsville. San Benito, Harlingen,Weslaco, Rio Grande City and McAllen.Originally a part of the U. S. Immigration Service, the border patrol was established as a separate or-to carry the mounts, will be purchased for use by the border patrol was greeted Saturday by members of the organization as the attainment of a real “modern convenience.” Purchase of four saddle gamzation in 1924. horses and two trailers was author- _lzed.The patrolmen took a big step forward when the service was motorized, but found out later it couldn't get along without the horses.When the federal government motorized the border patrol some years ack. all horses, which had been used in the days when the border patrol was a “river guard for the immigration office, were taken out of service.Before long, the patrolmen found that automobiles, while helping them glt;.t around swifter on paved roads, were of no use whatever in the tangled brush, cactus and mosquito lands edging the R'o Gran e.Officers who had to make excursions into the brush country began borrowing farmers* horses. but Washington turned thumbs down on this practice.For some time the patrol has been seeking to get its horses back again.Now. with trailers, the mounts can ; i be towed around on paved roads ' and then used v ith their own power in the areas where roads have not , yet been cut. tValley sub-district headquarters j of the border patrol are located at McAllen. The Valley division has 221lt;
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Valley Sunday Star-Monitor-Herald
Brownsville, Texas, US
Sun, Feb 25, 1940
Page 9
Full Page
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Jessica M.
USA 26 Sep 2023
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