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The'Galveston .uto Protective Association in mooting !!ay 25. 1925, unanimously adopted the following resolutions and requested thorn to be submitted to the Governor, the Highway nomission and to the press,
■ vHrt; ’".3, the Old jpunish Trull has been wider development ns a national highway for ten years and as ouch has been recognised by the states through which It passes and by the United states ns the basic trunkline of "the South crossing the continent from :;t. j.uguntino, Florida to sen Diego, Californio, and
'TH"3‘T.a, citizens of Galveston us early as 1917 joined with citizens of Houston, Do nun out and Orange and the Louis! win, cities in scouting conditions between Houston and How )rloane as its part at that period in working out the transcontinental route, and this at coats which involved shipping the oars back from How Orleans by train, and
through the suooeedlug yours all the southern borderland cities and tov/no have helped to carry through this great trunkline project that the people of the notion might bo brought to and spend their money end time in this southern country, and
:.v®3K3AS, it is reported the State Highway Commission has voted or announced that the section of this highway across Texas should bn named the "Jefferson Davis iSonorinl Higlwmy” thus aiming at the destruction of ten years work by Texas citizens and involving Texans in bad faith with sister states,
TTHHEPCEiiS H3 IT !8530BiVBl): That we unanimously request the htato Highway Commission to publicly declare.the Old Spanish Trail nune across Texas shell 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 the Old dpenlsh Trail as a great southern trunkline, and to refuse recognition to any group or interest seeking to fasten other names upon the highway and thus cause confusion ■ to travelers end discouragement to the sion and women who have worked so long to create the Old Spanish Trail as the connecting artery between Florida and California.