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•.bout n nont.ii ;o tho ?exas Highway {Jasmins!on gave tho nemo of DAVID to tho highway from tho Hod Hivor thru .Austin sma Dan Antonio to Laredo, 1’hic* highway, nationally laiown an tho JEJHTDL.li HIGH ,Y from vinioog to Hoxico City, was sometime ago locally named
tho ?,vs jr?? high ay.
It tho nano mooting tho OLD SPANISH '..’RAIL from Orange to S3. Paso eras named in ’’oxas tho DDfDH'fJ F, A1JD2U? HTOiffAY, J.t tho loot meeting of the Highway Commission the none SDDDHEH D. i>UaD3’* was abandoned and JDF^SHS >*! DAVID IT- TJDHIAL HIGHWAY substituted.
Hows reports state tho highway from Heil Diver to lurodo Is now bo in." marked by tho Highway Department as .TffiV'HS ).*; DAYI3 HIGHWAY and the Hiphwuy commissioners any J3 n DAVID Iff! TRIAL HIGHWAY la settled for tho Orange—Dl Paso road.
"his if persisted in moans tho destruction of tho Old Spanish frail from At. Augustine, Florida to sail Diego, California no u national highway, for foxes with ono-third the distance across the continent can make or break the project.
She Did Spanish frail was organised at Hobllo in 1915 and Hus boon a continuous active organization over since. At u conference in Houston in 1919 Den Antonio was asked to assume tho national headquarters work. The value of connecting such a project across fexus was recognised and the Dsn gntonio chamber of Commerce appropriated r:10(X) and others followed with support in loyal measure. In the ton yours of this work members have spent over ’‘100,000 personally. Dhey have succeeded not only in making the Did Spanish frail a connected transcontinental trunkline of very valuable possibilities to the South, but they have fostered the constructs on program until "‘30,000,000 have already boon spout; 7,900,000 of construction in progress will bo completed this year; ’10,000,000 of now construction will be inaugurated in 19315.
The Did Spanish frail is known (ill over tho land. It is of record in national offices everywhere, on (ill maps, in government manuals, (it schools, libraries, colleges, and with nil angarsino editors interested in outdoor life and onto travel. Iloro magazine and feature articles are published than for any other national highway. Its name, its historical background, its potential service to nutional tourist travel, and the possibilities of its territory for settle r ut, development, fishing, camping and resting, (ill appeal to tho northern editors. If lot alone it will be the nation’s beat known highway.
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.Dho 0'3" asooointion in the past ten years has published 40,000 service and gonorul maps; 10,000 four-color lithograph wall maps; 150,000 miscellaneous leaflets and booklets; 20,000 Gravelogn and now has a wealth of material ready for a foxes fruvelog of 20,000 copies; magazine end feature articles have reached a circulation of over 4,000,000; over 20G0 miles of roads have been marked and now narking in noooscary; aero milestones have boon dedicated by presidents and governors; 9;>? field men have traveled over 50,000 miles in this work---in the early days they wallowedin mud and mire working out eourncs of tho highway across tho