Hr. W. G. .Tones, Motor League of So
Texas
Deer Walter,-
Yon wan to l the cost of tho monument at St. Augusti.no.	I1 hoy writo
it cost $500 00 It is msid of coquina, the native stone of which old Fort San Marco and many old buildings there are constructed.
I understand the celebration coat about "'17,000.00 Wo have one of the souvenir programs if you would like one,
•Shat was a snappy letter to Al Gardner. Your argument is sound.
But doesn’t Gardner and the westerners consider their best hot is to back the Broadway of .America and let South Texas and South Louisiana get the travel a's they can? Travel that gets down to the old Spanish Trail will get to them any way, if it goes westward.	In other words
the peonle west of "'1 Paso and east of New Orleans will get the travel no matter what route they start on; '‘’lorida and tho east and California and the west are well entrenched. I put on tho motorcade to tie the east and the west in with us.	I have been fostering the return motor-
cade to build up stronger the fraternal tie. In all this, have been trying to lead un to a convention backed by a real	tr'	nscon-
tinental sentiment. T know these various sections and how the people think. You, Ike Ashburn (If I estimate him right), and myself would feel a keen regret if a convention was called at Houston and the Bast and the West stood off and watched. Al Gardner sort of reflects the ideas T am trying to describe.
On the other hand Gill of Crowley and Furlong are destroying tho very good will we have been building up and,nPore than anything else, will make oastem and western attendance and cooperation possible ^ successful convention is not possible if the Gill-Furlong tactics continue. If there is no convention the Mast and tho -Yost will go on alone and feel entirely content. ’hether Ike Ashburn understands thesq eastern and western attitudes T do not know. Gill and Furlong do not understand them.	Sincerely,
Ifetj/ 13, 1929