The Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1988 Page: 3 of 10
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Bv GEORCE EDGERTON
The writer is no historian but has
accumulated a jumble of disorga-
nized material over the years
relating to the area and its
inhabitants.
The late Florence J Scott did
leave us a few books, well
researched and now out of print
which documented some of our
history. The book she wrote about
our porcions researched at
Queretaro, Mexico, is used as
required reading by the University
of Texas Law School.
She has been collecting data to
write a hi. .ory of Fort Ringgold
and she said, "Now that the
original military reservation has
been converted into a school plant,
it is more necessary than ever that
school children learn something of
the great past that belongs to Fort
Kinggold, and 1 have listed a few of
the important dates and events in
its history for their use."
The Rio Grande Herald issue of
April 20, 1961 carried an outline of
the history that was never com-
pleted She had interviewed Miss
Luaa.'ia Davis oldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clay Davis, in
1924.
Miss Davis, though quite young
at the time, remembered and I
quote, "We kept open house contin-
ually and I can recall many
interesting people whom we have
entertained. Among these were
Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee,
General Ben McCullough, General
J.S Hood, Lieutenant Colonel
Sedwich, General and Mrs. Alex-
ander Buell, General Bee and
many others."
She added, "Little did we dream
then that this quiet young man was
so soon afterwards to become our
famous Confederate general "
Miss Davis, 77 in 1924, thus born
in 1847, was 10 or 12 years old
during these visits Her mother, the
gracious hostess, was Hilaria de la
Garza Davis, the real heiress to the
area of Rio Grande City and Fort
Ringgold.
This was an area of melding
cultures and heritages Most of the
Anglos who came here married
into local families from here or
C'amargo. This writer's own
grandfather, born in England,
Births
The following babies were born
recently at Starr County Memorial
Hospital.
Mr and Mrs Vicente Solis of
Grulla are the parents of a
daughter, Elizabeth, born Aug. 22
and weighing 6 pounds, 11 ounces.
Mr and Mrs. Ramiro Rodriguez
of Rio Grande City are the parents
of a son, Renan, born Aug. 22 and
weighing 7 pounds, 5 ounces.
Mr. and Mrs. Vidal Rico, Jr., of
Roma are the parents of a son,
Vidal III, born Aug. 22 and
weighing 7 pounds, 12' -t ounces.
Mr and Mrs Gilberto Flores of
Rio Grande City are the parents of
a son, liazar, born Aug 24 and
weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces.
Mr and Mrs Juan Raul Barrera
of Rio Grande City are the parents
of a son, Juan Raul, Jr., born Aug
24 and weighing 8 pounds, 7'a
ounces.
Mr and Mrs Javier Alejandro
Alvarez of Rio Grande City are the
parents of a son, Javier Alejandro,
Jr., born Aug 25 and weighing 7
pounds, 12' ■> ounces
Mr and Mrs Irenio Gonzalez,
Jr., of Rio Grande City are the
parents of a daughter, Stephanie
Marie, born Aug 26 and weighing 8
pounds. 8 ounces
Mr and Mrs Efrain Rangel of
Rio Grande City are the parents of
a daughter. Crystal Elaine, born
Aug 27 and weighing 7 pounds, 8'2
ounces
Mr and Mrs. Jorge Luis
Dominguez of Rio Grande City are
the parents of a son, Jorge Luis,
Jr., born Aug 27 and weighing 6
pounds, Bounces
The RIO GRANDE
HERALD, Rio Grande
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married my grandmother, Ma
Pilar Trevino, in Camargo in 1884
It does seem unusual that our
small town has been visited by so
many notable persons, more than
those listed above, including three
presidents in recent times.
Mrs. Scott states that it was on
Colonel Lee's second visit in 1860
that he occupied what is known as
the "Lee House",
He came here this time to
negotiate with the government of
Mexico with reference to the
Cortina events. Cortina was not
viewed as a bandit by Mexican
authorities and that classification
remains controversial. Even so, for
many years, all the later raiders
from Mexico were called Cor-
tinistas.
It seems to this writer that our
students should learn and be aware
of the history of the grounds th«-y
tread every day. Mr. Tom Fort
sent me a list of quite extensive
records of the Fort available in
Washington for nominal costs.
If one or more Social Science
studies teachers would volunteer as
a small committee to order these
materials through the school li-
brary and sponsor studies of the
Fort's history, our students might
win some merits as junior histori-
ans.
There are so many areas to
explore. The writer would be happy
to furnish what I have to get things
started. You could call me here at
487-3508. A number of years ago, a
girl high school student from
Edinburg, came over here to obtain
data on the life of my own
grandfather and she won the
second highest award in the entire
state as a junior historian.
The Historical Society can't
singlehandedly make this place a
must for tourists to visit, but with
help from teachers and students
and our school board, it can all
become a reality.
We must have the old hospital,
not only as a museum, but as a
central location for studies and
files and meetings
1 have several irons in the fire,
the Lee House, the Roma Bridge,
this column, and also as a member
of the Rio Grande Valley Historical
Collection Committer, which meets
periodically in Edinbur g
Mrs. Estela Contreras was the
original Starr County member, but
recommended the writer when she
could not continue to attend I'll
have more about the work of that
committee in next week's column
should be finished by mid-
September." At the peak of the
construction project earlier this
summer, the contractor had 120
workers carrying out the construc-
tion At the present time, said
Brumley, the contractor has scaled
down to roughly 75 workers.
Brumley stressed, "The main
reason we're installing the process
is to process more gas and recover
more liquid product from that gas.
We want to do all that in a more
efficient manner."
The Sun official indicated, "The
original plant itself was built in
1948, This plant is strictly gas
processing and always have been.
We used to have some crude oil
pipelines, until we sold them to
Koch."
Brumley explained the current
process, lean oil absorption, as
follows, "Lean oil absorption pro-
cess is where you circulate lean oil,
and it extracts LPG from the gas
by basically putting the oil in
contact with the gas where the two
streams are co-mingled."
Brumley added, "Lean oil
utilizes oil to extract LPG from the
gas. Now, we have to go through
distillation facilities to separate
LPG from the oil."
He noted, "Once we've extracted
LPG from the oil, the oil is
re-circulated to repeat the process
It's a continuing process like that '
About the pew process, Brumley
said, "With the new process, the
cryogenic process, the major dif-
ference is that we don't utilize any
absorption oil in the process."
The manager continued, "The
LPG is removed from the gas by
cooling the gas down to the
cryogenic temperature levels,
down to minus 148 degrees Fahren-
heit, where it (the LPG) is liquified
and. aparated from the gas."
The key to the new system, said
Brumley, is that "we are using
state of the art instrumentation;
computer controls to operate the
new plant. This is fine-tuned
technology that has been improved
over the years...We have more
processing information available as
a result of the computer controls."
Brumley noted that the new
process "utilizes waste heat recov-
ery to minimize our fuel consump-
tion."
Brumley stressed that "the
existing compression facilities and
the electrical power generation
facilities will still be used and
remain in service."
Brumley concluded, "This is the
current trend in gas processing.
Cryogenic processing has been
around since the early to mid
1970's."
The manager said, "Sun Explo
ration and Production Company is
separating from the parent compa
ny. There has been a staff
reduction (nationwide) as a result
of this."
The natural gas processing plant
of Sun Exploration and Production
is located near Delmita in
northeast Starr County, approxi-
mately seven miles southwest of
San Isidro.
The world's smallest primate,
weighing less than three ounces, is the
mouse lemur of Madagascar, says Na-
tional Geographic.
The closest that Frederick Rem-
ington. a native of upstate New York
whose paintings and bronzes helped im-
mortalize the Old West, ever came to
being a cowboy was 10 months he spent
on his sheep ranch in Kansas.
Rare aye-ayes, the strangest of
Madgascar's lemurs, are killed by
some villagers who fear their skeletal
middle finger as a harbinger of death,
while in other areas it is taboo to harm
them.
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Roberts, Kenneth. The Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1988, newspaper, September 1, 1988; Edinburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth195148/m1/3/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.