Deo • 31, 1931
Mr. Ed. Risenger,
Rosenburg.
Dear Mr, Rioengas
I leave at daylight Monday morning for an overland trip •• eastward to Orange- V7ill ''make Ft. gond'-county and Rosen baipg Monday evening. " Bringing a highway engineer.and D S Coin tm old highway department man, and one of our staff workers. We want now to get busy with Ft. Bond. We are voting county after county, in our work and I k.rov; you people want to get in line. We . are coming, to help you. Can we meet with soae of your people; as many as possible. Make a night of it again and we will- get down to business•
Jefferson county has just voted $3,000,000 Orange- has voted $700,000 more. Liberty county has called an. election for $3,000,000 Calcasieu Parish, in Louisiana, opposite Orange, bob"just: voted $350,000 We are coding to Ft. Bond, from that direction with .a paved road.	-We are going from San -Antonio to
Brownsville with a payed road.	You know what we already have from
Ft. Bend to San Antonio. West of Sac Antonio we have just let the contract in Kerr count / to build over the divide; this will clear all west Texas for any weather. We intend.to connect from the aain line there near you somewhere to this paved road to Brownsville and Mexico•
Ft . Rend I know will want. to. bo up 'With- the bunch -	.	So,	count
that we are corang prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder with you.
Tuesday I want to get in Liberty county. Tuesday night I ' must leave on the train for Mobile'and Jacksonville. Mr, Colp and the others will remain to look after Texas while I an away.
Happy New Year to you all,
Si.noerely, ’
Managing Director