LOUISIANA DIVISIOH, OLD SPANISH TRAIL ASSOCIATION STATE HEADQUARTERS, CROWLEY, LOUISIANA. Crowley,'La. April 29, 1929. Local Representatives, Louisiana Division, Old Spanish Trail Association, At all Points in Louisiana. Gentlemen Funds subscribed by various communities on the Old Spanish Trail in Louisiana, are for use in advertising the advantages of travel on the Old Spanish Trail to the outside world, and attradt attention to the Louisiana section of the Trail. The executive committee of the Louisiana Division are responsible to you for disbursement of the funds subscribed in Louisiana for this work. At a meeting of the Louisiana Division, held at New Iberia, in January, 1929, your executive committee was authorized to retain in Louisiana all funds subscribed in Louisiana and since that time, financial support has been withheld from San Antonio headr quarters * The Louisiana Division was actuated in this matter by the fact, that reports from Mr. Harrel Ayres, Managing Director and budget prepared by Mr. Ayres, shows, too large a part of the funds forwarded to San Antonio headquarters from Louisiana were used for "Administration Expense", and "Field Expense", and only a very small amount of funds were available for publicity and other purposes, for which the funds were subscribed. Budget submitted to the Louisiana Division by Jar. Ayres, shows that 71 percent Seventy-One-Pereent of funds are to be spent for"Ad-ministratioa Expense". Such over head expense is prohibitive and unnecessary, if business principles are applied to operation of the organization. We have communicated with the large cities and towns on the Old Spanish Trail in Texas and find the same opinion prevails on that section of the Trail, and Texas cities and towns are withholding financial support from the present Old Spanish Trail}. Association, Junction, Texas, and surrounding territory, have withdrawn from the Old Spanish Trail Association and are endeavoring to form a new organization. A survey by a National business organization reports. " El Paso and West Texas, much criticism of Old Spanish Trail and its Director. Practically 'all towns have no faith whatever in value of the Association to thellighwaynT A Chamber of ’Commerce in Texas says, 'rfi sc eras” perfectly obvious that the small amount of money secured heretofore ana used in proportion to the overhead can only represent waste*". Since 1918, iTorida has sub-scribed”5'B'35^"00 ah