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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1930
Page
53
A shipment of seed potatoes from the north is received and stored at S. A. Stores. The potatoes will be kept here until the planting season and then shipped to the Rio Grande Valley for distribution.
Engineers design cold storage for maximum flexibility and efficiency. York Tea Machinery of San Antonio installed compact knee tanks with ammonia float regulators, brine cooling, and high transfer coils. The system includes two condensate pumps, a central brine header, and 34 Tycos recording thermometers to chart temperatures 24 hours daily.
Harlingen Chamber of Commerce outlines plans for a new building near Branish Street, with an estimated cost around $10,000. The project aims to house chamber offices and foster local business activity in Harlingen.
Road construction in the Barreda tract in the Rio Grande Valley and dredging of two lakes are set to begin after contracts awarded to Joe Hallenger per A D Dickinson Jr. The James Dickinson company clubhouse project is planned at about forty to fifty thousand dollars with seventy five acres of land donated to become Barren State Park two and a half miles from Highway 12. Work on grading and dredging will commence immediately.
Brownsville will host the construction of two new business structures. One will house a Wiggly Wiesly store on Elizabeth Street near the highway junction. The second will be a service station for H. Pohl at Elizabeth and West Fifth streets.
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