UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS DISTRICT EIGHT ALABAMA. FLORIDA. GEORGIA. MISSISSIPPI. SOUTH CAROLINA. TENNESSEE July 1st, 1922. BELL BUILDING MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA Mr. Harrol B. lyres, Burlington Hotel, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir:- I was glad to receive your note of June 28th, and note with interest copy of declaration by the various Congressmen interested in the Jackson-villeT Hew Orleans-Bos Ingeles Interstate Highway, which you are doing so much to bring to a reality under the name of 0. S. T. an appointment with me, reached this office I was out on a long inspection tour, and, in fact, was out for nearly all of the month of May and considerable of June; therefore,when 1 found your note it was apparently too late to reach.you. is at hand showing the road from Nunez bridge to the vicinity of Daphne as a secondary road, but this is one of the questions I expect to take upf State before they prepare their first map for submission to this office. When your note of May 25th, requesting A preliminary draft of the Alabama map 0. S. T.