DECLARATION REQUESTING W? THE NAME 0” THN OLD SPANISH TRAIL BE HOT DISTURBED ID TBXA3 BUT SUPPORTED AND COHTIHUED IN THE INTEREST OF SHE GREAT HIGHWAY KIOJECT RECOGNIZED AND ESTABLISHED.
FROM 3T. AUGUSTINS, FLORIDA TO SAN DINGO, CALIFORNIA.
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The people of Sonora and of Sutton County 'nave for six years Boon
actively 'jgfra-ix ■ helping develop the Old Spanish Trail from
Florida" to California, In 1919 one hundrod und thirty-five Dost Texans met at San Antonio with delegates from the East and these Texans pledged their efforts to put a road across	CT,'	'■■■<-'» Not even a good trail
existed at that time, Sutton County voted ''.300,000, In those six years, as the outcome of that Son Antonio noeting and the subsequent efforts, we have seen all West Texas opened.
The Old Spanish Trail has been under development as a national highway for ten years and as such has been recognized by the states through which it passes and by the United States as the basic trunkline of the South crossing the continent from St. Augustine, Florida to San Diego, California,
A recent report of the Old Spanish Trail shows the following extensive work that has been done* They have published 40,000 service and general maps; 10,000 four-color lithograph wall maps; 30,000 miscellaneous leaflets and booklets; 20,000 travelogs and now has a wealth of material ready for a Texas Travelog of 20,000 copies; magazine and feature articles have reached a cii-culation of over 4,000,000; over 2000 milos of roads have been marked and new marking is neoessai*y; zero milestones have been dedicated by presidents and governors; OST fiold men have traveled over 50,000 miles in this work—-in the early days they wallowed in mud and mire working out courses of the highway across the continent; now the women are organizing and beautifying the highway and they too have made great contributions to the service.
It is reported tho State Highway Commission has voted or announced that tho section of this highway across Texas should he named the "Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway" thus aiming at the destruction of ten years work by Texas citizens und involving Texans in bad faith with sister states.
Therefore we roquost the State Highway Commission to publicly declare tho Old Spanish Trail name across Texas shall remain as planned and that the Highway Department will continue cooperation with sister states to build a nationally known trunkline over this route across the continent, and to cooperate in every possible way to establish tho Old Spanish Trail as a great southom trunkline, and to refuse recognition to any group or interest seeking to fasten other names upon the highway and thus cause confusion to travelers and discouragement to the men and women who have worked so long to create tho Old Spanish Trail as tho connecting artery between Florida and California.