Published in (lie interest of THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL
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PRESIDENT DR. FRED. D. JOHNSTON,
E. COUP MANAGER, BOND ELECTION DEPARTMENT VICE PRESIDENTS:
FLORIDA F. W MARSH, PENSACOLA, FLORIDA ALABAMA JOHN CRAFT, MOBILE, ALABAMA MISSISSIPPI H. S. WESTON, LOGTOWN. MISS. LOUISIANA MARTIN BEHRMAN, NEW ORLEANS, LA. EAST TEXAS W. E. LEA, ORANGE. TEXAS WEST TEXAS WALTER SCHREINER, KERRVILLE, TEX. WESTERN A. H. GARDNER. TOMBSTON, ARIZ.
W. R. PERKINS, ALICE TEXAS
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
Managing Director—H. B. Ayres. San Antonio, Tex SECRETARY HERBERT DAYLISS, LAKE CHARLES, LA. TREASURER M. G. MCNAIR, GULFPORT MISS.
FIELD ENGINEER HARRY LOCKE, LOS ANGCLES DIRECTORS S. H. PECK, MOBILE ALABAMA R. H. FLEMING, NEW ORLEANS, LA.
H.A.MCDONALD, DEAUMONT, TEXAS
J. C. BAUMGARTEN, SCHULENBURG, TEXAS
SAN ANTONIO BROWNSVILLE DIVISION
Vol. 1
San Antonio, Texas June 15th., 1922.
No. 2
THREE DAYS OLD SPANISH TRAIL ASSOCIATION CONVENTION OF TEXAS DIVISION Will be held in the propose 1 State Park in the Davis .Mountains eight miles west of Fort Davis, Texas.
We will all take our camping outfit and go by auto. 'Not a single town between San Antonio and Fort Davis will have hotel accommodations sufficient to care for our party, and besides we want to go out into the mount; ms and camp two nights so we can get the benefit of the park from every angle.
Those who do not want to camp can get splendid hotel accommodations at Fcrt Davis. In the event this town can’t care for all those wanting hotel accommodations it is only 2S miles over a good ro. d to Alpine and 2fi miles to Marfa, where at least 100 can get first-class accommodations. It is CS miles to Palmo'hea, where the hotel is good, but small—ro d fair; 29 miles to Valentine--hotel good but small; roads fine.
The caravan will start from Orange on the east, picking up additional cars at all points along the route into S n Antonio. Another caravan will start from Brownsvi le on the south, gathering recruits from all towns in the Magic Valley and along the route to San Antonio, where the two caravans will merge and the San Antonio delegation will join with probably twenty cars from other OST towns.
D. E. Colp, manager Western Department, has just icturned frem an inspection and arrangement trip over the entire route west. Selected the camp, site for the convention and accepted the generous invitations of the towns along the route to be their guests for all noon and night meals. Breakast being the only mean we will have to prepare between San Antonio and the camp in the Davis Mountains.
The caravan will leave San Antonio Monday morning July 3, at S o’clock, ar.d reach the Davis Mountains Thursday afternoon, July (I. The convention will open at S p. ni. and last until Saturday, July S.
Cn adjournment Saturday we have a very pressing imitation to go to Alpine as the guests of the Chamber of Commerce for their annual celebration July 10 to 11—Old Settlers’ Reunion and Cowboy Roundup. This will l:e the greatest attraction of its kind over staged in West Texas.
The Alpine people have the renutation of do?ng things in a big way. You would know all this to be true, when they Ind the nerve to invite oven* member of our convention party to come over and le iheir guests from Saturday afternoon until Wednesday morning. Mo-t of us know something of this beautiful and hustling citv by its reputation when they landed the Sul Ross State Normal there a few ye^rs ago, and now have 500 young lady teachers there fer the summer normal.
The convent’on program wHi be given to the rress for next Sunday. We will have some of the best speakers in the State. We want every can didate in the Stale for the Legislature to meet us i
I at the Davis Mountains and get first-hand information on what the Old Spanish Trail needs through this Slate, the real importance of this and the Bank-head Highway, also Central Texas Highway. All three higways join near the proposed State Park. "Mr. Senator” and "Mrs. Representative," won’t you come out and take a look at ih* 5,000 to 7,000 people that wiil attend this convention, and get acquainted with what these two big highways need? You must know already that they serve around 75 per cent of the people of this State, and if the State Highway Department and Federal Government are to continue aid to Texas highways you gentlemen will have to do some law-making for us.
All towns within 100 miles of Fcrt Davis have agreed to "throw in" to our convention with their Fourth of July celebration. This will give us a tremendous crowd. We expect to take several hundred people from Fast and South Texas, and there will be cars joining us from nearly all large towns throughout the Stale.
We have invited, and expect the Texas Highway Associtaion, Bankhead, Jefferson Davis and Central Texas Highway Associations, io all join us at the Davis Mountains and take over a part of the program.
INVITATION.—We extend an invitation to all the people of Texas to take their vacation with us at this convention. Write us for further information. W. W. McCrory, State Highway Commissioner from San Antonio, with Mrs. McCrory and daughter, .Miss Marion, will head the official family of the Highway Department with our caravan to the Davis Mountains. Judge McCrory is very much in.demand at the? present time, especially in South and West Texas. The voters want to get some first-hand information about what will be required of Texas to continue to participate in the Federal aid for road construction. The Judge has made quite a “rep” for himself by telling the truth about some of the inefficient work done in Texas in the past and by furnishing a plan to avoid it in the future.
We won’t have time to announce our program for the convention in this bulletin, hut it will he published in all the leading papers at least a week before the start to the convention. We will have enough orato*s to entertain a do'en conventions and "svrerh-makers” will be so thick they will be in each other’s way.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the Texas Highway Association held at Waco last month. Mr. W. T. AVheeler of Fort Wo* th was elected Secretary and S. Deane Wasscn of San Antonio was elected Publicity Manager for the T. H. A. This will make a great team. If they don’t put it over we will be surprised.
P. 12. Co’p, who has been manager of the Bond .ran'rlmcnt and manager of the Texas Division of j F’c O. S. T. since January 1st. was made manager j the Western Department, taking in all of the O. S. T. Highway from the Texas-Louisiana line'to Fan Diego, Calif., and the San Antonio-Rio Grande
ON THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL FLORIDA-CALirORNIA MEXICO