and of the pluck with which tlje grc” battles when they found that Enth not sufficient.	.	j
One of the first “triumphs” was cei da with bands and barbecu^ when #55,000 v together for a vital bridge:	That	bridge,
Apalachicola River, was not opened until m later, and then the cost stood at over #80( passing let me say that many eastern bri causeways were “financed” early for sums seemed fabulous, and were completed five years later at costs that ran into millions.
San Diego had those sand hills and the Springs trail. When San Diegans carried 1 those sand hills and built that plank road b< early days they too were welding enthusi; pluck into a spirit that could not be defeated when they passed the hat in San Diego to bl through granite mountains, and again to 1: east of Yuma, Arizona. They kept the way held fast until their primitive trails were ; skilled engineers and an open corridor per laid to San Diego’s doors.
It was this crusading spirit in a half of th< across the continent that has now opened t mobile artery along the’ trails and through of the Spanish crusaders of past -centuries.
May I say that California 'leaders neec watch lest the leaders in the East who hav the new world around the Gulf of Mexico a