Eminent writers have declared the Old Spanish Trail construction progress an g 'ample of southern capacity for achievement.
Men from St. Augustine, Florida to San Diego, California have fought -aliant battles the past docade, it is stated, to finance and build this highway. Engineers and contractors have battled with bays, rivers, plains marshes and mountains arid they have conquered every obstacle. The St, Augustine festival i6 to be the jubilee for these highway officials, engineers, builders, civic organizations and citizens ,for the highway stands as a tribute to their perseverance. Today dozens of cities and towns in these lands of the Spanish hidalgos have a story of new glories in.-the new empire now developing in these southern borderlands.