PLAITS A ED POLICIES
There mu at be financial help, encouragement and cooperation given to many of those atudents of old history before we can hope for finiohed resultn. Moreover, novelists and historians such ae have clothed California, Santa Fe and Non Orleans with 'j extensive and glamorous literature, will coma to fan Antonio and create a glamorous literature around this section when access to source material and basic facts is made inexpensive and easy.
The present work,therefore, should be to continue building up the collection of maps, photos, photostats, and books, and
by seeking material now in possession of old families......and
by indexes and. files establishing the location and character of material at libraries and institutions.......and by encour-
aging; anyone who will to specialise on some phase of history, thus preparing for the time when by organized cooperation we can help one another.
These depressed business conditions prevent normal organised work now, but we can keep planning ahead.
Exploring trips around Spanish 3outh Texas and North Mexico have been planned to gather outlying field material and to promote geographical understandings and to bring men and women into the work from outlying historical localities. Local cooperation is available to make these exploring trips very interesting.
These trips will also vitalize public interest in the work.
"he nap collections that are being built up are basically essential to correct understanding. The prosent-dav topograph-ical naps (item 20, Studies in Progress) pern't detailed study of trails, explorations and colonizing works—this collection is complete for South Texas and fairly good for North "exico. These maps are an acid tost against research and study. Mr. A.R.Ailing is accumulating photostatic and photographic copies of pioneer period maps. That folio is becoming valuable. Pioneer maps were necessarily made from poor geographical understandings but they are invaluable as indexes to conditions and for study in connection with later and more correct topographical maps. The large wall maps now a part of the equipment are to;)extended, in keeping with ”r. Schwegmann1s wise suggestion, to include all the Southern Lord rlands from Florida to California.