THE MODERN HIGHWAY
An organization to foster the construction of the Modern highway was formed at Mobile, Alabama, in 1915. The national headquarters was transferred to Kan Antonio, Tc;cas, in 1919. In 1922 tho .Washington Declarations gave the project national recognition and imoortmeo. The now highway v/as dedicated at taint Augustine, Florida in 1929 as a completely opened travclway. The monument and the throo days' dedication pageantry cost	-—■
Saint Augustine $16,000. The 'punish Government sort Don Rafael Casares	.C-etoA-i
Gil as representative ol the King of Spain. A Motorcade to the dedication ooror.'onics, led by a largo delegation from Saji Diogo, California, crossed the contiiiciit averaging 271 a day for 11 days, jcftepinc'tfa'Cutu.Lu. e„ schedule like a railroad train, thereby establishing beforo tho world tho progress of the groat construction vorh connecting tho two oooons aoross tho big rivers and bays in the Slot and tho prinocly cattle ranches of Texas and the mountains of tho \Ybst. iiarral Ayres, ten years KJanaging Director, now President, was decorated by Don Pablo do Ubarri in the name of the King of Spain with the Cross of a Knight Comwandor of the Royal Ordor of Isabel la Catrflicu of Spain, at a diplonatic ceremony at San Antonio, Texas.
The inodorn highway has cost to date (1D32), including funds in hand for present war’:, over $100,000,000. Complete paving aoross the continent and all bridges, including the bridge over the : iscissippi diver at Nov/ Orleans to cost '’19,000,000, arc financed and progressing toward completion.