courtesv department is maintained for visitors. Oyer 1,000,-000 lbs. of refined sugar shipped daily. Country hotel. Camp space.
•RICHMOND. The first Anglo-American settlement in Texas. Other early settlements were Spanish or Mexican. NATIONAL HOTEL.
PRIZOS RIVER. Note height of bridge above normal water". AH OST bridges contend with high floods.
ROSENBERG. Cotton and corn. Country hotel, good meals. Free camp, cast side, shady. Jmica’s OST Garage has good mechanics.
NOTE The Rosenberg—East Bernard sector, about 10 mi., Is black (lirt, bad in wet weather. This is financed for pavement. A gravel and paved detour adding S mi., northward by Wallis, is provided.
SAN BERNARD RIVER.
EAST BERNARD. Rice, cattle and cotton. See dirt road memo, under Rosenberg. Inf.—Highway Garage.
•EAGLE LAKE. About -10,000 A. of rice lands in this district. 40% developed. Water from Colorado River and from wells 27 to 40 ft. which flood 35 to 50 A. DALLAS HOTEL, running water in rooms. Also DRUMMERS HOTEL. Free camp on OST. east. Davis Garage, battery and tire service, capable management.
COLORADO RIVER at Columbus.
•COLUMBUS. Numerous fine old live oaks about the town. Under the oak near the Court House the first district court of tiie Republic of Texas was held. Columbus was in the path of Santa Ana during the Texas revolution and was burned by Gen. Sam Houston. HOTEL LIVE OAK and several lodging houses. Auto camp five blocks off OST with shade and conveniences, and several cabins. Camp 2 mi. east on OST under construction.
WEIMAR. General farming; chicken and turkey raising. Rolling country and pretty farms. SACK-SON HOTEL.
and good service.
SCIIULENBURG. Cotton and pretty farm section: nice views over the hills. Only cotton-seed flour mill in world; shipped everywhere for bread used in diabetic cases. This part of Texas German and Bohemian. Clean rooms at the station hotel, also at new boarding house. Nice camp on OST. west. Inf.—J. C. Baumgarten. OST Director.
FLATONIA. Important turkey, chicken and egg production: cotton and pretty farms and rolling hills. Country hotel. Free camp in town. Inf.—Lee’s Garage, Chevrolet dealer—service and filling station. Competent and good.
WAELDER. Lodging. Camp space.
GONZALES. Noted in the history of Texas liberation as the "Lexington of Texas.” Thirty-two of her men died in the Alamo. The Texans mobilized there and fired the tlrst shot for Texas independence. Santa Ana invested the toun. State Park reservation in the town on the OST.
,, improvements progressing, asphalt streets, golf, nice residences. Rich wooded and farming country, rolling hills and valleys, cotton, corn, a leading poultry shipping center, natural pecan growing country. PLAZA and ALCADE notels. Auto camp on OST. north of P. O.
MARCOS RIVER, west of Gonzales 2 Vi mi. Fine camp m riverside grove.
HnTru	Prosperous	farming	country.	AUMONT
S,. V. only modern fireproof hotel between Houston and ban Antonio. Free camp on river, south.
RIVER at McQueeney. Other villages ard Marion. Cibolo and Schertz. Nice farms.
THE ALAMO, SAN \NTO.MO Mission Sun Antonio cie Valero now known ns tho Alamo. Transferred from tile Rio Grande in 1718 it is recognized as tho beginning of Sun Antonio. The corner stone of this building was laid May 8, 17-11. In 1702 a report stated tho tower and sacristy had fallen and a quarried stone church of liarmonious architecture was being built.4
It was occupied by tho Texas patriots in defense of San Antonio and for the independence of Texas against Santa Ann and the Mexican army. The Alamo fell March G, 1830. All tho patriots were killed. The defense of. tlie Alamo is one of tho epic stories of the ages. (See page 21.)
MISSION SAN JOSE, SAN ANTONIO Mission San Jose y do San Miguel Aguayo, founded 1720. Tiiis building was begun apparently in 1708.* A record of 1778 says "it was the finest mission In nil New Spain.” Tills church approached file majesty of a cathedral; its village had tho strength of a castle. Its architectural and sculptural detail Is the Joy of artists and etchers and the wonder of nil travelers.
*Muny careless statements are given out concerning the construction of tiie missions. The founding of a mission, the beginning of the present church building, and when completed, are very different and often obscure dates.
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San Antonio, 1718. Seat oj old Missions G