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SPANISH
TRAIL
ALL SEASONS ALL SOUTHERN
HIGHWAY
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PALMER PILLANS, PRCSiOCNT
STEWART A. LE I3LANC. SCCRCTARY

OLD SPANISH THAI I,” ASSOCIATION
II K A D Q U A H T K It S s - M O 11 I L K , A I. A 11 A ftt A
Mobile, Ala., May 3, 1917.
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WEEKLY BULLET III OF OLD SPANISH TRAIL” ASSOCIATION*
DIRECTORS
FLORIDA
J. M. CALHOUN.-«
VICE-PRESIDENT J. B. PERKINS
V.	W. HELM
W.	M. CORRY
ALABAMA
CAPT. JOHN CRAFT.
VICE-PRESIDENT W. M. CLEMENS DR. MCR. SC HOW ALT F R L. C. IRVINE
MISSISSIPPI
F. H. LEWIS.
VICE-PRESIDENT W. H. BOUSLOG W. A. MCDONALD HART CHINN
LOUISIANA
LUCIEN LYONS
VICE-PRESIDENT WALTER PARKER W. A. SCHULER W. E DERMODY
TEXAS
HOMER D. MATTHEWS.
VICE-PRESIDENT MALCOLM A. FRASER
NEW MEXICO FRANCIS E. LESTER.
VICE-PRESIDENT H. A. LANE
ARIZONA
HARRY LOCKE.
VICE-PRESIDENT .. A RREN MAC ARTHUR HARRY WELCH JOHN F. MYERS
CALIFORNIA
ED. FLETCHER.
VICE-PRESIDENT
Since last^r-ating we have been visited by the Tallahassee Convention car which was given arousing reception here, being met at £<*rry and later escorted to the Mis^ issippi Line after meeting* Reception all along the way seems to have been most enthusiastic and from information that has reached us it will be the same the balance of the way* For‘the first time since Organization Headquarters is in receipt of the kind of information that it would like to got every week, covering the whole Spanish Trail from Ocean to Ocean* Information at hand covers only Tallahassee to New Orleans, and was sent by the Convention car in the form of post cards,* We wish there were somebody in each section who would send us a post card giving similar informationweekly* Reports are as follows:-
q,uincy to Mariana, good, except old road from River to main road coming into Sneads* -From Marianna to Be Funiak Sprin part from Chipl°y to within six mils of was bad, from Be Funiak *co Crestview it From Cre/stview to Munson is wavy
Munson to Chumuckla Springs is new
but
is good, except Funiak which good* v/ith sande From passable*
gs
Be
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Ferry) is poor route of "The Old
From Chumuckla Springs to Pensacola is good, except two miles out of Chumuckla*
Pensacola to Fairhope (via Lillian but people enthusiastic*(This is not the Spanish Trail at present)*
From Mobile to Pascagoula is fair with one bad stretch of sand (due to roads boin g prepared for hardsur-facing)®
From Pascagoula to Biloxi is good*
From Biloxi to Gulfport is fine-right along the Coastal though not quite finished*
Fro m Gulfport to Pass Christian is good*
From Pass Christian to B^y St* Louis is a good sand road* From Bay St* Louis to Slidell is good*
From Slidell to Mandeville is good*
From Milneburg to New Orleans is good*
The above omits Fairhope to Mobile and Mandeville to Milneburg, both of which are ferries.