courtesy department is maintained for visitors. Over 1,000,-000 lbs. of refined sugar shipped daily. Country hotel. Camp space. •RICHMOND. The first Anglo-American settlement in Texas. Other earlv settlements were Spanish or Mexican. NATIONAL I-IOTEL. BRAZOS RIVER. Note height of bridge above normal water. All OST bridges contend with high floods. ROSENBERG. Cotton and corn. Country hotel, good meals. Free camp, east side, shady. Jurica’s OST Garage has good mechanics. NOTE. Tlie Rosenberg—East Bernard sector, about 1C mi., is black dirt, bad in wet weather. Tills Is financed. for pavement. A gravel and paved detour adding S mi., northward by Wallis, Is provided. SAN BERNARD RIVER. EAST BERNARD. Rice, cattle and cotton. See dirt road memo, under Rosenberg. Inf.— Highway Garage. *EAGLE LAKE. About 40.000 A. of rice lands in this district. 40% developed. Water from Colorado River and from wells 27 to 40 ft. which flood 35 to 50 A. DALLAS HOTEL, running water in rooms. Also DRUMMERS HOTEL. Free camp on OST. east. Davis Garage, battery and tire service, capable management. COLORADO RIVER at Columbus. !i:COLUMBUS. Numerous fine old live oaks about the town. Under the oak near the Court House the first district court of the Republic of Texas was held. Columbus was in the path of Santa Ana during the Texas revolution and was burned by Gen. Sam Houston. HOTEL LIVE OAK and several lodging houses. Auto camp five blocks off OST with shade and conveniences, and several cabins. Camp 2 mi. east on OST under construction. WEIMAR. General farming: chicken and turkey raising. Rolling country and pretty farms. JACKSON HOTEL. Camp space. Inf.—Brasher’s Garage and good service. SCHULENBURG. Cotton and pretty farm section: nice views over the hills. Only cot ton-seed flour mill in world; shipped everywhere for bread used in diabetic cases. This part of Texas German and Bohemian. Clean rooms at the station hotel, also at new hoarding house. Nice camp on OST. west. Inf.—J. C. Baumgarten, OST Director. FLATONIA. Important turkey, chicken and egg production: cotton and pretty farms and rolling hills. Country hotel. Free camp in town. Inf.—Lee’s Garage, Chevrolet dealer—service and filling station. Competent and good. WAELDER. Lodging. Camp space. *GQNZALES. Noted in the history of Texas liberation as the “Lexington of Texas.” Thirty-two of her men died in the Alamo. The Texans mobilized there and fired the first shot for Texas independence. Santa Ana invested the town. State Park reservation in the town on the OST. Civic improvements progressing, asphalt streets, golf, nice residences. Rich wooded and farming country, rolling hills and valleys, cotton, corn, a leading poultry shipping center, natural pecan growing country. PLAZA and ALCADE hotels. Auto camp on OST. north of P. O. SAN MARCOS RIVER, west of Gonzales 2V6 mi. Fine camp in riverside grove. ' SEGUIN. Prosperous farming country. AUMONT HOTEL, only modern fireproof hotel between Houston and San Antonio. Free camp on river, south. GUADALUPE RIVER at McQueeney. Other villages westward Marion, Cibolo ami Schertz. Nice farms. Etching by 1 l,ny. r THE ALAMO, SAN ANTONIO Mission Sun Antonio do Valero now known as til© Alamo. Transferred from the KIo tlrande in 1718 it is recognized as the beginning of San Antonio. The corner stone of this building was laid May 8, 1711. In 1702 a report stated the tower and sacristy had fallen and a quarried stone ehurch of harmonious architecture was being built.* It was occupied by the Texas patriots in defense of San Antonio and for the independence of Texas against Santa Ana and (lie Mexican army. The Alamo fell March G, 183G. All the patriots were killed. The defense ot the Alamo is one of the ....I.. storl..u „f the ages. D'atci"# by Mary I.tinner MISSION SAN JOSK, SAN ANTONIO Mission Sun .lost! y tie San »*«■ ,-'*“■>» \ r“