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THE GREAT HISTORIC HIGHWAY CONNECTING FLORIDA’CAIIFORNIA" MEXICO*
OFFICES. SAN ANTONIO, TEXA./*.
FOR DETAIL CHARTS OF THIS HIGHWAY SEE LOCKES GOOD ROAD MAPS OF LOCALS TRANSCONTINENTAL AUTOMOBILE ROUTES.
PRESIDENT--DR. FRED B. JOHNSTON. SAN ANTONiO icxas. MANAGING DIRECTOR-H B AYRES :an antcnio tc<as
4mmThE'^Ld Spanish Trail	^BOND ELECTION DEPARTMENT	* SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT..
VICE PRESIDENTS:	SECRETARY"HERBERT	BAYLISS	iax8	C*arlF5	IA
FLORIDA-F. w. MARSH, pcnsacola. florioa	FiE^lf en r in'r f r-’-ha PRY for •’r r..J r- r..
The OLoSmNISHTl^t-’AsSNT''*	ALABAMA--JOHN	CRAFT.	MOBILE.	ALABAMA	FIELD	ENGINEER HARR f LOCKE, l ... .-.
..* "	MISSISSIPPI-H.	S.	WESTON. LOGTOWN. MISS	DIRECTORS**S.	H.	PECK.	*.ma
•	.v^H«09UANT«ns.SANANTONIO.TUAS	LOUISIANA- MARTIN BEHRMAN. NEW ORLEANS. LA.	R. H. FLEMING. \ ' v . ~ rt\-. it,
“^-T'pA-,--*.=—-. -.-	EAST TEXAS-W. E. LEA. ORANGE. TEXAS	H. A. MCDONALD BEal-wont TE*E
'	WEST TEXAS--WALTER SCHREINER. KERRVILLE TEX.	,1. C BAUMGARTEN. SCHULCN8 JTexas
Telephone Crockett 2268	WESTERN-A. H. GARDNER, tombstone. Arizona	MRS. JULIE RIEGLER. antimo Texas
SAN ANTON IO--BROWNSVILLE DIVISION	W. R. PERKINS, alice. Texas,
BULLETIN TO MEMBERS	FEBRUARY 20TH. 1922
HlKNVII^d SQUARE
On Bienville's Monument in this Square in Mobile is Ibis inscription:
To Jean Baptiste le Moyne Sienrs tie Bienville. Native of Montreal. Canada. Naval Officer of France. Governor of I.onisiana and Founder of the First Capital. Mobile. 1711. Bom 1680—Died 176S. With the Genius to Create an Knipirc and the Courage to Maintain it. Patient Amid Faction and Successful even in Defeat, be Brought bis Settlement the Prosperity of True Civilization and the Happiness of Real Christianity. He Who Founds
a City Builds Himself A Life-long Monument, y/'	  ^
By this inscription Mobile is credited with being the first capital of Louisiana Others say Biloxi was the first capital.
FLORID V CONDITIONS
Florida, with limited money for the whole state, i pursuing the wise policy of bridging the great waterway of the Old Spanish Trail thru North Florida and leavinj the roads for aOvhile to the counties. This will let traffij contracts have just been let for 9.89 ms. of 11 inch macai thru," for the roads can be made comfortable .when"tin bridges cross the rivers.
.._^ West of Jacksonville, thru to Take City, 52,67 ms.
(jam with a bituminous top. and the remainder for 6 incl reinforced concrete.
THIS FLORIDA BRIDGES
APALACHICOLA—to be opened in April; approache: to Ijc extended gradually. To cost $1,000 000.00; tota length land and water structures, 5,500 ft. Classed by en gineers ns a “monumental structure.”
CHOCTAWHATOHEE—Contracts let. 8.000 ft. including approaches.
BLACK WATER, at Milton—completed recently. Cement foundation. IS ft. under water, piling 25 ft. deeper The foundation so deep and difficult the state had to assume the work.
ESC AM MIA, 10 ms. east of Pensacola—financed. Federal aid for $250,000 just allowed; $250,000 additional promised for 1923. Escambia County has $2,000,000 ii bonds voted. Bridge to he 3 ms. long. Six months time in engineering surveys, the most complete engineering stiu lit of conditions of any highway project in Florida.
Judge IT. II. Phillips Is Cha’rman of the Florida Roaci Department; J. 1). Smith, Marianna and W. J. Hillman Live Oak, are Commissioners on the OST. James Auster Mortkind is the bridge eng’neer. With compliments to al of them for the type of work they are doing and the difficulties they arc conquering.
BIG CONSTRUCTION TX PROGRESS	PENSACOLA
This is to be a story of construction in progress. The OST has the reputation of having more building activity	The story of Escambia Bridge is also the story of great!
than any other transcontinental highway. This is due ir achievement by Pensacola—a place noted for its attraction! part to the widespread faith in the Old Spanish Trail as a since the earliest Spanish Adventure, and a city of destiny great highway, and in part to the fact that OST staff men when the OST is open and other big works are completed., are continually busy somewhere getting problems solved. Fred W. Marsh, Vice-President of the OST, is one of the The OST crosses the great drainage systenKof the con- leaders in all this, tinent at their worst—near the Gulf. It is a highway con-	\L\1I\M	\
Quering difficulties for the service of the people, not one
seeking eas> couiscs.	,	Two counties project at the bottom of Alabama with
.....	...	Mobile Bay S ms. wide lying between, and the OST crosses
l . A. AGING DIRECTOR IN THE EAST	tlie bottom of these. Mobile is on the west shore of the
«..	.	,	...	bay. On the east shore and extending to tlie Florida line
Managing-Director Ayres lias been since the first of is Daldwin County with 600,000 s.u.suma orange trees and the year, in the frost Mississippi, Alabama and Florida	t „roves of papcr shell peouns. Us Eastern Bay shore
are soon to be marked, section maps issued and other data is a deUghtful resort summer and winter. Baldwin Coun-compiled for travelers. Many tourists are found who are tv js another spot lhat w„, flower and fruit when traffic having difficulty getting over this section	TcnnrTirflm-E5.it:'	-\VTtTTroad-	holidays’they are putting
Divisional Conferencejtoo will he called in each state. eis lhrB- Her people have organised the strongest OST; -lhe cities or towns to handle these	conferences are to be	>fheir ,.oad in condition. A campsite has been	opened it?
selected. The people must prepare for increased traffic	Daphne and others are pianned. In a month	the high-
and proMde for it.	way will be marked across Baldwin County. The women
are intending to plant azaleas, japonicas and other flow-.1IIE TE.VAts WORK	ering shrubs along the road-side. These shrubs are in
_ _ '. ,	,	„	,	•. , .	.	bloom in that county now.
D. E. Colp, the Manager of the Texas District, is every- Alabama has just voted Si5.uOO.COO in stfteroad where, working night and day. The work seems unending— bonds Senator John Craft. Alabama Vice-President of that's the cost of getting right down with the people and the OST. is the “Father of Good Roads” in Alabama and getting things done. The President,	Dr. Fred B. Johnston,	tireless in that work. He and the people of	those two
has taken charge of Headquarters	in the absence of the	counties are now organizing to profit at once	from this
Managing Director.	-	state program. Bridging the pay is a part of the plan.