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TABULATED COSTS EASTERN SECTION
9___The summary of costs for the eastern section, St. Augus-
tine to San Antonio, is as follows:
Asphalt or
Concrete	Modern
Roads	Bridges
a—Completed __............  -..............§10,990.000.00	§ 4.918,300.00
1,—Under construction to be completed this
summer, fall and winter----------------  8,CS0,000.00	0,	tG9.000.00
c—Financed and ready for contract or authorized for paving, (several years will pass before the contractors can pave all this but well maintained Federal standard improved roads
will carry travel meanwhile)—......... 11.775,000.00	1.3S2.000.00
Total  ...........................    §31.454.000.00	§12.009.350.00
d—The above includes the concrete and asphalt paving only. There are many miles of Federal standard gravel and sand clay roads completed. These offer good traveling today and will present seasoned grades to the paving forces when ready.
Total --------------------------------§ 3,445.000.00
Total paved and improved unpaved
roads -------------------------------§34.899,000.00
Bridges as shown--------------------  12,069,350.00
Grand total completed and authorized
--------------------------------§4G.90S,350.00
o In addition to the foregoing program of action it is estimated the cost for lbe additional paving and the bridges to complete this eastern section and not yet financed or authorized, and not including the Mississippi River problem, totals—
For paved roads not yet financed §13.GS0,000.00 For modern bridges not financed ... 2.925.000.00
Total, eastern section when all is
paved and all bridges built............§G3.573.350.00
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WESTERN CONDITIONS AND COSTS
10.—Westward, San Antonio to San Diego, is a dry country. It has been less difficult to open; good traveling has been maintained. I inancing has been difficult because it is a sparsely settled country'. The story of the western section will be told when the record can be gathered. It is also a story of dauntless achievement and a tribute to the western people as these eastern achievements arc tributes to the eastern people and all of it a tribute to southern capacity for constructive development.
11-—About # 15,000,000 have been spent westward from San Antonio to San Diego. Grades, curves and road-widths have been brought to Federal standards and the roads are well maintained. Future improvements are now largely' a matter of paving the surfaces and this will require another #35,000,000.
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TOTAL COSTS. HEAVY TRAFFIC NOW APPARENT
12.	—The total cost of the highway from St. Augustine to San Diego will reach #113,000,000 with #62,000,000 spent or appropriated for construction.
13.	—Increased travel or heavy rains may break down sections now quite satisfactory but not permanently built, nevertheless it is expected the construction to be completed this year will close all gaps and open the Old Spanish Trail from coast to coast after ten and a half years of the most devoted cooperation of any great project in the history of the United States.
14.	—All south-bound highway's feed into the Old Spanish Trail and this trunkline must develop as the receiving and distributing ■system for this accumulation of traffic. As the connecting trunkline of Florida and California, with its new resort development along the Gulf eastward and in the hill and mountain country westward, and its agricultural and industrial development all across the continent, this highway is destined to a traffic demand undoubtedly beyond even the dreams of the most farsighted leaders. A mere drive over the highway today tells only a part of the story. Trips through the tributary territory bring the real revelation.
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PRESENT CONDITION IN EACH STATE
15.	—FLORIDA:	Today	the	big bridges across Florida arc
•completed and paving the whole mileage is authorized, financed
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