Dec. 31s 1921
Dear Kao ~
I leave daylight Monday morning for overland trip eastward.
Will rake Ft. Bend -county •' Mo jday night for -night conference, if it don't rain in that county. ' Wo must vote. Ft. Bend for paving.
Will be with Ed Risinger , pres ehauber cpiuaeroe at Rosen burg Mo niay night.	EgfcCrTtbs meeting may go in to Bandar Hotel
for sleep^ or circumstances may require ua to stay in Rosenburg.
Tuesday we will make Liberty County, rwouhing Beaumont at night '
T) E Colp and a highway engineer will be with no.:	We	arc,	as
usual, well informed as to .the highway department attitude as to what we are doing.
Joinue somewhere can't you? You and Bill Lea join us in R&g011 burg. I am writing him. Any message to Bender Hotel will get to me; will stop there whatever time go thru.. MCaday night I take train.for Mobile. .Colp remains on the job. The whole main line in Texas MUST be cleared up this spring. ' E Knight 'and our marking car (which has just finished marking the. Brownsville extension) is -waiting to mark, to Orange ,.iif we can finance it-
Hastily and a PROSPEROUS HEW YEAR