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livestock ranches—nov; a super-highway is being constructed through that "Safcfciwsa* Cattlemen's Paradise," .ileir.JXexico, Arizona and South California; deserts, mountains, mining and irrigated areas of winter, summer and semi-tropical products. And mindled with these industrial and agricultural activities are* flourishing cities ranking high in the American commonwealth and a thousand
scenes noted in song, story, poetry and history--------the Spanish Borderlands
are an unusual country.
Southern Capacity for Achievement
Probably nowhere in the United States have the peoole shown a truer 3en3e of historical values than havethe southern people in their efforts to lay this Old Spanish Trail through the lands rich in old Spanish history....and probably nowhere in the United States has the capacity for achievement been better exom-plified than here in this land where they battled and worked together until their diverse and complex problems were solved and a hundred million dollars were poured into unprecedented road, bridge and 3eawall construction... .and these are the people that are rearing a new Anglo-American civilization in these Southern Borderlands, and building cities of refinement and interest, and regenerating a great country.
The Spanish Southwest
Across the southwestern United States are interesting cities and smiling valleys nestling in mystic deserts. Early in their history the Spanish "athero-were in the El Paso Valley... .and up the Rio Grande aatefclUHB^h—bwHwMilKxiM to Santa Fe and throughout New "exico....and into southern Arizona at rucson and Nogales and the adjoining northern Mexico and down the Gila River of Arizona; the Plmerfa '.lta they called that country... .they were across the Gulf of California and maintained many missions on that remote peninsula they named Baja California....then at last they found ways to sustain themselves while they crossed the desert sands and formidable nountaine to occupy Alta California, the present California.
The Spaniards loved that strange southwestern country, as many love it today, and their works there were extensive and notable. Spanish history, tradition, romance and allure overspreads that country. The western men battled for the highway across those long distances and, like the crusaders of the East, they also won their victories. But only a few of them, a very few, are members of that band that battled for the transcontinental Old Spanish Trail, and that distributed so much travel literature and old history to publicize and popularize it. That western section has had many names, many promotions. Today they call it the Broadway of America and they seek to keep travel moving to their country over the northern wind and snow swept rouie3 that travelers used before the Gulf of 'exico country was opened.
Gulf Country and Old -‘exlco now Preferred
Now the sun-bathed lands of the South are easily accessible from any northern point. Old Man '.Vinter is quickly left behind and the country of outdoor sports