gOAD IMPROVEMENT p-„,Uc.
Bry St	? t °Z nspluilt mat 150 completed from
countv n S° th° ?°XnS lin°; -lso ^oss Baldwin % fvy°°ont tr-on v/i11 complete fion St. '}T1=U+tl,^C 'n<l al1	Florida	to	San	Antonia,	Texas—
V, .0 "?°t roxas raid to the Mexican border a.nd on Tr_‘^r	Mexico	City.	It	will also bo complete from
ttv-t r‘1Kl v-i'ious northern points down to the OST at Mobile and other eastern points. Paved trunk linos are t.lso coming soutnwa.rd through western states.
2.	A federal st.. ndard road new prevails from San Antonia to California, except for two or three minor: sections. It is 25% payed an-"; constantly improving. Broad roads and easy driving provniJs.
3.	Improvements include proper routes through cities and towns; widening rights of way to a, .minium of 80 ft.; making curves safer; widening cilvorts; replacing eld bridges; increasing safotj' conditions goner ally®
COMMENTS.
MOST OP THIS PROGRAM IS 110'./ IP OBEYaNCE UNTIL IT CaN BE DETERMINED WHETHER THE MISSISSIPPI COAST IS TO COOPERATE.
I He REASON j ARE _ 13 AO aijO'./S ; —
Sectional financing of the work can no longer bo sustained.
Alabama and Plorida cannot satisfactor iiy cooperato with the Wc-st if the Mississippi Coast is a blank in between.
Travelogs and naps cannot bo continued, paid for by some sections an3 "not p rid for by others.
Tho motor cade cannot start-from California to run to St. Augustine, nor preliminaries begun unless a.ll sections aro behind it. This motorcade totaled 63-5 cars at Memphis last year. If eastern interest is not established this motorcade will bo supported from San Diego, to El Paso, to San Antonia, to Monterey, Mexico, to Hot Springs, Ark., returning by Carlsbad Cavorns to California.
If the Old "Spanish Trail narking is not put across tho East the highway will gradually become colorless U. 5. 90.
If tho paving from Bay St. Louis to the Texas lino is not. promptly complo tod then that helps tho West intrench tho travel stream on tho old established northern routes.
Louisiana has organized a Louisiana OST unit end wants tho cooperation of a similar unit in Mississippi.
IT 13 P.EaLISED THE CO.iST Ha3 BUILT ’WELL ITS PART 0E THE OLD SPANISH TRaIL. OUR TRIBUTE MUST BE PAID ..L30 TO THE OTHERS TII.iT E.X/E DOPE SO MUCH TO OPEN THIS HIGHWAY ACROSS THE CONTINENT. IT IS aL30 REALIZED THE PROGRAM FCR DRAWING TRAVEL AND TR.iVEL-DIVIDEHD3 IS HOT YET WELL UNDERSTOOD HERE. •
MY ST.iY ON THE COaST CaNNOT BE EXTENDED MUCH LONGER. IP a V’/.iY COULD BE POUND POR THE CO.EJT PE OPE TO MEET AND TALK THESE QUESTIONS OVER EVERYONE INCLUDING NATIONAL OPPICIAuS ‘WOULD BE PaLPED .
Groat Southern Hotel	Harral Ayers,
Gulfport, Mississippi.	Managing Director.