The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-31

highway iu the country. and IN the
meantime the people of this section
should get busy on that New Or
leans San Antonio highway that II
may become an integral part Of the
whole scheme for betting the contin-
ent with a continuous automobile
road" comments the Beaumont En-
terprise
/ Which affords the Times-Herald
/ al opportunity to again speak a
word in behalf OF the Red to the Rio
! Grande roadway.
The Red is rich in historic incl
dent. There Austin established
farm for the raising Of supplies for
I the coiopists there the red man and
1.-THE white man often met in deadly
conflict: there Banks was met and
driven back by Kirby Smith, and
there hard by is the good town OF
nenison whose early history figures
in Dan Damon, the Deadliest Be
yond the Father of Waters We
come on TO Dallas, where we cross
the river of canoes" so called by
iLaSalle Through Ellis. the greatest
on cotton production, and through
, Hill, whose capital was made famous
by visit from the mayor of Waco,
We reach the Brazos, which the In
dams called Tockomoro and which
a republican state convention deslg-
mated as the Mississippi of Texas,
which designation no man Will dis
ipute. In crossing this stream LaSalle
lost one of his men, supposed to have
been seized by an alligator, and he
gave il the name of Malign, which
is another instance of a good man
gone wrong. We speed along to the
Leon, whose sights are historic;
thence to the Lampasas whose YER
dure is the delight of all visitors;
thence to the Salado, fed by an ar
tesian flow; thence to the Gabriel,
flowing by gracious Georgetown
thence to the Colorado, on which Is
lut td'lldl VI 'AH'o '''N ''''' -
which we pass; thence to the San
Marcos. where Don Cupid is never
idle; thence to the Guadalupe, which
boasts historic New Braunfels;
thence to the F'rio and to the Nueces
and on to the Rio Grande-every
mile of which is rich in scenery and
ablaze with historic incident, this
Red to the Rio Grande roadway.
Think what an education il would
be for the boys and the girls to take
them over this route, passing as they
would through the counties of Gray
son. Collin, Dallas. Ellis. Hill, Nc
Lehman. Bell, Williamson. Travis,
Hays, Comal, BeXar, Medina, Frio,
iLaSallc ard Webb Where did these
names originate? What are the prin-
cipaI streams? What noted events
are called up by such journey?
How came the capital to be at Aus
tin? What does the Alamo stand for?
? How did we get the line between
> Texas and Mexico? Who were the
= first settlers? These and other like
, questions would naturally arise on
> trip from the Red TO the Rio
. Granae. the answers 10 which, if in
> tellgenHy made, would constitute a
= liberal education.
True. such a trip can be made by
. rail, but that is lacking in contact
with the soil so TO speak. On the
; railway train we do not see the
? towns through which We pass nor
: the rivers We cross as we would in
touring car subject to ones own
icoutrol.
In addition to all this, such a
roadway would make the markets
accessible to a large section of coun-
try, and that is always worth while.
To neglect the Red to the Rio
= Grande roadway, brethren beloved
along the line. is to forego great
instrumentality in the upbuilding of
our section of the country.-Waco
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