northward in New Mexico to Santa Fe (332 ms.). Also to include tributaries. The Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fo passed thru El Paso.
The oldest and most romantic works in the Spanish Southwest. Santa Fe is the second oldest city in the United States. The prehistoric Indian works and the old Spanish adventure and effort are an interwoven romance. This is all naturally a part of the Old Spanish Trail system.
VIII.	WESTERN DIVISION—1.000 Miles.
Arizona and California to Los Angeles. 82:5 ms. The old mission works in California continued northward beyond San Francisco.
The Santa Crus Valley in Arizona, Tucson to Nogales, 86.6 ms., was a western entrance from Old Mexico into the Spanish Southwest. The old missions. San Xavier (1692) and Tumacacori, older, arc there, two of the most remarkable churches ever built in a wilderness.
In Arizona and California were the last of the works of the Spaniard, and the most numerous of those amazing communal establishments, the old Franciscan missions built a day’s journey apart, the first at San Diego in 1769.
In Arizona, too. Coronado in 1510, with an expedition worthy of a king’s ransom, searched for the Cities of Gold. He pushed his search for three years thru norlhern Texas and on to northeastern Kansas, (hen returned a broken man.
IX.	MEXICAN DIVISION—1000 Miles.
From Houston and from San Antonio south to the Rio Grande Valley and Brownsville, (hen on to Mexico	City.	Plans for a paved	road to
Brownsville are well advanced. The work in Mexico is in process of organization. One of the most	ancient Spanish trails was	up	the
Gulf Coast from Mexico. This was the first penetration of the Texas country. Refugio, Corpus Chrisli. San Patricio and a host of other names testify to ancient Spanish endeavor. The mission fathers plodded this trail in those first heroic years to save Texas from Da Salles colony and	from the French in Louisiana.	The
site of La	Salle’s fateful landing was	on	this
trail. The first group of missions at Nacogdoches and thoso at Victoria, Goliad and Mission Valley wore served by this old trail, and it is rich with records of those remarkable days.
The Main Line of the OST calls for supreme effort at present, but an Old Spanish Trail all around the Gulf from Tampa, the earliest eastern gateway, to Brownsville the land’s end in Jbe United Stales on the western shores of the Gulf and on to Tampico and Mexico City, will prove an historical and interesting phase of rapidly unfolding plans for the greatest travel-way in the oountry.
Officers and Administration Old Spanish Trail Association
President----------Dr. Fred B. Johnston, San Antonio,
Texas
Managing Dircctor.H. B. Ayres, Sail Antonio, Texas Vice Presidents:
Florida--------F. W. Marsh, Pensacola, Florida
Alabama________.Tolm Craft, Mobile, Alabama
Mississippi----H. S. Weston, Logtown, Miss.
Louisiana------Martin Belirman, New Orleans, La.
East Texas-----W. E. Lea, Orauge, Texas
West Texas-----Walter Schreiner, Kerrville, Texas
South Texas____.W. R. Perkius, Alice, Texas
Western--------A. H. Gardner, Tombstone, Arlzonu
Secretary__________Herbert Bayllss, Lake Charles, La.
Treasurer----------M. G. McNair, Gulfport, Miss.
Field Engineer-----Harry Locke, Los Angeles, Calif.
Directors__________J5. H. Peck, Mobile, Alabama
R. H. Fleming, New Orleans, La.
II. A. McDonald, Beaumont, Texas J. C. Baumgarteu, Scliulenburg, Texas Mrs. Julio RIegler, San Antonio, Texas HEADQUARTERS 109 Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, Texas II. B. Ayres, Managing Director The Association Is incorporated. Field workers nrc bonded by a national surety coinpauy. Periodical audits are made of all accounts. A permanent organization exists, fostered by the people of the South to open and popularize this southern historical territory for the travelers of the world.
SAN ANTONIO ADVISORY BOARD Charles Graebner, Chairman J. J. Sterne, Mrs. Henry Drought, Mrs. Erhard Guenther, Leon N. Walthall. L. B. Stoner, Dr. A C. McDaniel, Kenneth Wimer, C. N. Wuest, Harry L. Miller, W. N. Beckmann, Mrs. H. A. Moos, Franz Groos, Percy Tyrrell, Judge Augustus MeCIoskey, Mayor O. B. Black, County Commissioner J. H. Covington, Mrs. Winchester Ivelso, D. E. Colp, S. E. Keasler, Herbert Pealrs and the local directors.
THE MARKING SYSTEM The route marking and special signing Is in progress. It will take all of 1922 to complete the work. Texas has 1600 of preliminary marking on trunklines and tributaries finished. Trunklines carry the OST on a white background, as the desigu shows. The top band Is red; tho bottom band Is yellow. The trunklines are numbered. Tho Main Lino Is number 1; the borderland trunkline thru Del Rio, Texas, Is number 3; tho Mexican extension, thru Brownsville, Is number 2; other trunkline extensions, wherever laid down, will be numbered this way. The number appears In a circle on a white background above the OST mark and color band. Arrows, on a white background below the OST mark, Indicate corners and turns. Tourist loops and tributary lines are indicated by tho Bamo color design with tho letters TL Instead of OST. Tho TL routes ure also numbered. Connecting points will be specially signed. Interesting places will be signed. The loops aud tributaries embrace Interesting drives around cities and towns, routes to historical places, scenic attractions, campsites, etc. Travel books will bo Issued to carry all desirable data and Information. District map slips will bo Issued carrying a log of distances, a diagram of routes marked, location of campsites and a list of councilors. Councilors arc local leaders aud OST officials Interested In promoting tho comforts aud hospitalities of his community and district.
This work Is dependent for Its progress upon the financial support given by the various districts.
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