; • &•») A HII90HTT0 OLD Ll.'-NISE TE .IL SS£r£ 02? fh'lll , •:• ' mid il_ CALL 20 AG2IOK ' -X *r She time -has come when all friends of the Old Spanish Trail must act to save it fro i disaster. In three years this highway system has hesn developed from a mere dream without any substantial support or recognition, until today it is nationally recognised as of first importance, and embraces 4000 miles in its main and tributary trunklines. It has cost three years of toil and sacrifice by men who have given unselfishly . ~t first only- a little vrcuv of Gan .Into lean and Vest Texans sustained the work, while elsewnere cion* the route claimed there v.-erv varlyt>ther highwa;. association securing suppor’; of the people, - in ten or more sections wixs nig/Av/ay has been marked by other claimants. ail other sections indifference prevented support to the CSf movement. . • • - ,,.r • ’ ■ . *’•• » i • V i, V > ircai physical difficulties /many- ai-rtriall still oraisi, aloe discouraged ; interest, and made the dream of a connected highway across-the continent ° seem unreal. Communities, and even states, stood for policies ar/ inaugurated construction programs that would have left the- : Trail as projected, broken and discredited.* In Texas'' ths 032 b trunklines arc natural state highways; in several other, states the state In t CTO s t: Is so remote 'Tim. ao tl ve co-ordination o :C local, i-n.Ay'SstrsAye.Aga a/xiA. national forces was necessary to establish recognition ana aid from the states. 'VLATIImHIEG S20EUS ! ;3 e j under) ( •«mJ giowing T-:irr. 1?£1 because the Managing Director gave all hit. tins and r\:-3V/ but „VoG CO for services, ....id merchants in San Antonio gave credits when they couldn't give cash." In the fall of 1221 the storms were weathered, moneys began to come in, accounts were being reduced, and 1922 ■was at hand with meiibsrship-renowals due and the prestige of clean conduct to assure adequate income for all proper purposes., and for those merchants and men whose good-will had saved the or;;. lew memberships, too, wore expected in considerable volume, fer i.n constant efforts to unify interest from the Atlantic to the Vaeific was having its effect, and support was broadening. The marking in Texas, exceeding a thousand miles, had been • .ceomplished in the midst of the general depression., and less than ifeis mlleS’flft remained to reach St. Augustine* with" imprb'ved conditions tg put it ever. One hundred and- two; ty : . 'r- ' to ho ;»y rk&d in vv;-;:as!--and s.V. sections needed improving. bi . • was ripe for aapssarid service to traveled .n& this was planned in December 12x1 for early attention in 1222. The year 1922 promised easy and important progress, and this faith is proves L> standing aocounts, with understand—gs that nev; work should supply its over. costs, and ashing no nonejs for himself, the ‘aiiaging director left January 2, 1322 for the Jest v/here conditions ire h-je^liig the project a "broke • d unrecognized highway. There was no organization in the fast, The eastern road-building u.r ;lL..r are ho.id, . Statu highway maps were doing _ r._ ' 3 d for td;:-_ .Voder0! hood unreal1. with sections of th’' ) d-Oh.?.',■■■ Indifference greeted the Managing Director at first, then those people rallied \ ■",' f" ..arno;-. hioos-. 1- larch a r'er'-'-l-ta i : Goaf rone-; ' a held at Mobile1, and ... greater one planned for 1225. The fas tv "Sho** ’..as sugplSing f raids for a on- ..h " " • ... : work, than :U sin hi 1 the funds fpr the Managing Director's work at Washington ..hero the fid Spanish Trail was finally placed on all state maps for primary attention and as a part of the federal s y atea and where the ..hr -Spar'd nl^ ops and the OST system were brought into accord and a statement issued by the . aii Department that this highway a h i os uora. ■ ......................-O', a nart of the plans for national def .■■uiie — an3 .o.ere senators ... .. oo.p. men and other national i«afi<«•« •;oinetl in declarations as-ioriing'