THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE OFFICES, 109 GUNTER HOTEL SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS Telephone Crockett 226S President: Harry L. Miller, San Antonio, Texas.
Vice-Presidents:
Mrs. F. R. S. Phillips, Panama City, Florida.
(Florida-New Orleans Division)
Will L. Vining, Orange, Texas.
(New Orlcans-Houston Division)
Walter Schreiner, Kerrville, Texas.
(Houston-El Paso Division)
A. II. Gardner, Tombstone, Arizona.
(El Paso-California Division)
Secretary: Herbert Bayliss, Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Treasurer: J. W. Hoopes, Houston, Texas.
Field Engineer: Harry Locke, Los Angeles, California.
Managing Director: FI. B. Ayres, San Antonio, Texas.
Councilors:
S. A. LcBIanc, Mobile. Alabama.
Arthur W. Van Pelt, Houma, Louisiana.
Edgar Miller, Lake Charles, Louisiana.
George J. Roark, Beaumont, Texas.
J. W. Rainbolt, Gonzales, Texas.
W. L. A Id well, Sonora, Texas.
James Rooney, Fort Stockton, Texas.
Fred Sherman, Denting, New Mexico.
Col. J. FI. McClinlock, Phoenix, Arizona.
Col. Ed. Fletcher, San Diego, California.
TIIE OLD SPANISH TRAIL
The Trail is not a completed highway There arc still many miles of pioneer country—doubly interesting because it is pioneer.
There are also many spots requiring expensive engineering before those links arc complete and comfortable.
But extensive construction is going forward and interested men and women from the Atlantic to the Pacific are at work making the OST a great and nationally attractive highway
The Old Spanish Trail connects the playgrounds of Florida with the playgrounds of California and links the playgrounds that lie between. It will bring to the cities and towns along the way a continual tide of tourist and automobile travel and a permanent pleasure to the people. The Old Spanish Trail will revive and keep alive the remarkable history of old Spanish days, a history that reaches from Florida to California and offering historical associations more romantic than anything in the land. Those were the days of Spanish splendor, of Cavalier and Conqueror, of Columbus, Cortez and and Pizarro, of Ponce dc Leon, De Solo and Coronado and of the great orders of priests whose missions are scattered along the Trail. 'Flic Spanish dreamed of gold and glory and they sought for it among the fabled Seven Cities of Ciholo in Arizona and New Mexico and in the realms of the Gran Quivera in Texas and Kansas, they searched for the Great Kingdom of the Tejas, for the Mountain of Silver, the Streams of Pearls, the Provinces of Wealth and the Fountain of Youth. They added luster to their period and won new empires and lost them. Today the Floridas and the New Spain of those days are the winter retreats of the people of the North American continent. The Old Spanish Trail can and should become the most famous and most traveled continental highway in the land
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