HE SOLUTION 13 RHO.UESTIMG THAT W 1J»!IB OF THE OLD 3J?AHIS3{ TRAIL IF. HOT DISTURBED ItJ TEXAS BIT.? SUPPORTED ADD 00111= IK ODD IH THT. IIITEHUST Off "HE 030/,T HIGHWAY PROJECT REC00III3UD AND ESTABLISHED VR(M 13V. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA ”0 3A1I DIVIO-), CALIFOPJTIA. * * * # # The Galveston Auto Protective Association in meeting May 25, 1925, unanimously adopted the following resolutions and requested thorn to he submitted to the Governor, the Highway Commission and to the press. WHEREAS, the Old Spanish frail has been under development as a national highway for ten yoars and as such has bo-on rocognizod by tho states through which it passes and by tho United States as the basic trunkline of the Couth crossing tho oontinent from St. Augustine, Florida to San Diego, Californio., and WHEREAS, citizens of Galveston as early as 1917 ;joinod v/ith citizens of Houston, Beaumont and Orange and tho Louisiana cities in scouting conditions between Houston and New Orleans as its part at that period in working out the transcontinental route, and this at costs which involved shipping the cars back from How Orleans by train, and WHEREAS, through tho succeeding yoars all the southern borderland cities and towns have helped to carry through this great trunkline project that the people of the nation might bo brought to and spend their money and time in this southern country, and WHEREAS, it is reported the State Highway Commission has voted or onnouncod that tho section of this highway across Texas should be named the ’’Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway” thus aiming at the destruction of ten yonrs work by Texas citizons and involving Texans in bad faith v/ith sister states, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That we unanimously requost tho State Highway Commission to publicly declare the Old Spanish Trail name across Texas shall remain as planned and that tho Highway Department will continue cooperation with sister states to build a nationally known trunkline over this route across the continent, and to cooperate in every possible way to establish tho Old Spanish Trail as a great southern trunkline, and to refuse recognition to any group or interest seeking to fasten other names upon tho highway and thus cause confusion to travelers and discouragement to tho men and women who have worked so long to oroato tho Old Spanish Trail as tho connecting artery between Florida and California.