should work out the Tampa, to Tampico plan a a it is discussed in the booklet herewith; this for the sake of historical consistency, and because it would be a wonderful highway project. Vte in Texas can deliver our part.
New just a word a3 to what we call basic highways. There are j ust a certain few of these in the United States. The 08T is
recognised as one of them, but it is also one of the most difficult to get into construction and one of the highways menaced much by irresponsible promotions. Moat of the highways (not most, but many) from the north try to seise on aone section of
it. That complicates our work, increases expense of dainis-tration, and decreases income. So we have many problems.
Tout there are interested, in the Dixie as a great highway. That is becoming a basic highway. But westward there are other highway
not yet as well administered as the Dixie, but each coming south until they reach the OST. Every important city westward is fostering about two north and south highways, one as a feeder from the northeast and one as a feeder from the northwest. And the states are committing their highway departments to these as major highways. Often they are put down for primary attention until we show that these highways are only blind alleys until the OST is completed to take the traffic that they attract south. The OST must become the reservoir for *11 the traffic that will pour south, audit must be built heavier than these numerous feeder hiyhways.
Sow the day iz rapidly approaching when Florida, will os in sharp competition with all the rest of these southern borderlands. Florida will reap with the rest for tens of thousands of cars will be in the South as soon as this highway o&n care for the®.
They will hit it at the nearest point and play on it all winter.
In the West we are already taking care of increasing thousands.
The highways parallel with the OST, and of course north of it for none is possible south, are only paper affairs. There is neither climatic, sentimental or geographic reason for thee and federal engineers ao not look kindly an federal aid to them, except in occasion..1 local links. It is recognised Jkat federal aid must be concentrated on the OST for a long while yet to ke^p pace with traffic der-andu. Te fought this mobile Bay problem ,011 that baai3. The Alabamians at the first session of the big meeting were still afraid of stressing; federal or national importance. The highway commission was blind to it. Yet the second day Jkey gave us a decision 10 tc 2 on the principle national importance and federal recognition. Letters came from Washington.
I am a long while closing this letter, arid it reads rather rambling.	Please ac not think I have ever tried to "beat about
the bush." On the contrary try to give me credit for realising that we have big problems, and that I want to plunge into then, but that I want to go thru with them when I start with the earnest cooperation of East Floridians. If the big men in Jacksonville will give oe the same earnest cooperation I received here in Mobile then Jacksonville is txxe place for the conference.
I frankly believe wo should work things out better in jax than in the. smaller town. I must get buo*; to Texas for awhile, then back east. perhaps can gef. over to Jax.
Sincerely