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365 Botes avenue anuary 22, 3.950
p, Claude • Dirkheud,
an Antonio.
^ dear Claudej
your letter waa nice. I have received a number like it. They help reps- no the sacrifices I have known only too well I war. naming. 3 eafceen, more perhaps in you realize* the net taut men live you have an appreciation of tho probWjs I ave faced for 10 years. "hat you do ia a tribute to you for much of the j'oide tor/ has not yet 00 w out. Clotting 000,000,000 together in 0. few vours, and far project that was not inteadod, politically, to be put over, is not ’-Hhout fielo. nd y policy haa boon to use ,y influence and intelligence quietly and lot the carol© me pressing to the work enjoy the live light.	Some inaide history io now proa-*
sins to core erf thru Washington.	y rocent	Decoration by tho King of Spain in
'her light on the inaide otoiy not yet ’aoovm.	I will be glad when men like you
more of this unpublished history for I have had your money, your eympatly, your -ill these years- to help mo "carry on? and I want you to know how much your co-tion really meant.
I faced three fha.iam'ontal difficultlea:
1. the Official plan until 1922 was not to build tho old Spanish Trail but to tako be aoutlmwi trunk line hinge on Atlanta, with tho westward trunk thru outgo- -iery, capital of Alabama; JackiJOu, pap its. I of . ieoioeippi, bhreveport, Dallas, Elpc.so to Califor-ia, and distribute from this-trunk to the southern.territory.	Chin route was (and
till is) ge..jgmphicaUy logical;: it was' 'politically boot supported; .it was financially %' to put over.
2.
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ivory chaf er of commerce of importance was ccT’i.tted to trunk linen from tho -v- running oouthv/ard. An eaot and neat trunk line, 00. far south, must await according to their dictum) the working out of the co-invocations .down to the South.
3* Tho financing and enyineerins proble m of the Old Spanish 'frail project were Morally conceded as inauTrvomrlable; at least until the other and rare important ntnk lines wore built.
those obstacles had not been overcome there would have boon no Old Opaiifeh ^ the southern national trunk line would tove crossed March Texas.
"toot cordially*
Hcrral Ayr os