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ho all know that i'or 20 yes* 3 automobile travel has son® in large volume to California and Florida. Those old travel route have beoeme groat
highway®, and th® people of those ;’tut®B and along tkoee highway® keep organised to keep travel flowing ttioix wny.
The biggest travol trend in westward to tko national arku and to Oal® ifoxaia. a score of ansttk permanent organisations in the fast Ham ££,£>00,000 annual income devoted largely to drawing travel that way.
rhoy recognise tho automobile as tlw> transportation unit of the ago. Authorities say there arc no.v 40,000,000 auto travelers u year and author® ities agree the travel stream it$ westward.
The lUcsissippi Coast ana others have now opened the old Spanish trail across the continent. We should now go after this travel movement for the benefit of ou* oountry. And wa :mat recognise that while m teciv® been building the old Gpunlah Trail other national trunk lines Have alee “coon building and that they hate Jioaono intrenched because nearer to tho flow of travel.
Other inforimtion in that Federal highways are building flown. to Mexico City. one in fully financed and half completed from Aar. Antonio, 9exM to Mexico Olty and southward to the sea.?-and another trove! movement will begin that will tup the westward flow unfl Ignore the Gulf Coast if v©
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5h© old :'p»M.sh Trail Association has lie an in continuous 'esclstenoe since 1913. The records show th&t only in two years lias the Coast $£x really uissa belied in the adainietration of that great work. Tks iixooutive toaxfl of the Association Isas given notice it toast have .the cooperation of theoo Coast cities if the cooper atIon of the Association toward the iSact io to be continued and it8 eo.'apxohonaiVG progs&ra for travel development ia to ho kept in our service.
The Old Spanish Trail, connecting us it does ;?lo*ida» the Mississippi Coast, Texas, I'axioo and California, hue the greatest future of any highway in the land hat its valuo oust he sold to the. North in o cape tit, ion with other movements. Moreover its value should bo sold now that the homoeeefeera and investors that flow with the travel stream sasy he brought our way.
Ke have the information that Texas and the ..©at are proceeding with the understanding the Faut is not Interested In ge±»|pa.f>axKteifOTik cooperating to get travel. Gan Antonio has twice pat ask a man on aa extended tour, onoe Koxth and iiast thru Kailua and oneo north ana saat thru lew Orleans. Monterrey, Mexico entertained a motorcado iron Texas last May. Texas has had a representative at Mexico City entertained by Government officials laying th© groundwork for cooperation between Te.uia and Mexico in the Interest of the Highway system now building. The hratz Southwest has conducted one motorcade of 488 cars to the central east and a bigger notesoodo ia authorised and organising for next April.