The paving program eastward is now so well advanced San Antonio will be connected by pavement with all points on the Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Florida by the end of 1931.
The secret of course is that never has this Old Spanish Trail project been a promoter’s plaything. It was organized and has been directed by the people of the South.
Somehow it has seemed as though the spirit of the padres and the conquistadores flamed again in the soul of these Anglo-Saxon pioneers. We read the story of the Spaniards of those three centuries from St. Augustine to San Diego and marvel at their fortitude in the face of such hardships. We view the evidences of their works and marvel at their achievements. We who have watched these modern men from Florida to California rise to the demands of this southern
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