Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-05-14
MARKING KINGS HIGHWAY.


actuating the patriotic Daughters OF
the American Revolution in their eff
forts to re-establish and perpetuate
the Kings Highway" told San An
tonic road) and other historic trails
Of Texas and the Southwest by re-
survey OF the trails and .he 'aeing
Of suitable markers along their
routes. The following is a brief out
line OF their plans:
4. If hoping for things and the get
ting ready for them make them
come true, then the Texas old trails
committee, Daughters Of the Ameri.
can Revolution, viii surely succeed
in securing the appropriation Of $4,000
from the State to resurvey the Kings
Highway (Camino ReaD or old San
Antonio road.
After two years OF strenuous work
and study the old trails committee
has secured the boulders to mark the
road. II has secured the services Of
a skilled expert, Prof. Dunn OF the
State University, at a cost OF $500, to
have this road authenticated from the
archives of Washington, New York,
land office and counties, to be histori-
,cally correct, and everywhere the
same across Texas.
This map shows every town that
has grown up along the road today,
giving the number Of varas, maps Of
surveys in counties, field notes, dia.
ries of explorers describing the Ca.
mino Real, this old ancient highwa-
long before the written record Of the
old San Antonio road began.
Through the Kings Highway OF
old San Antonio road we can trace
the political ancestry Of our States
history. The Indian. the French, the
Spanish, the Mexican and the Ameri
can propagated political and religious
history across this trail, and from
this knowledge OF facts we can trace
the control of our Texas lands.
when II came to the Mexican gov
eminent distributing its lands to the
Texas colonists, its laws regulated
and governed that these grants should
be on the south boundary side or the
north boundary side OF the old San
Antonio road that was maintained ir
the field notes OF those counties
where the road ran. Then when the
seat of government was selected the
old road was adopted to promote the
welfare OF the State, as the commits
sioners said. the location Of the CAPT
tol would eventually close the past
through which the outlaws and Mexi
cans had for ages travelled from cas-
TO west, from Natchitoches, La, L
the City OF Mexico Il is said b!
some that the road was only Travelled
by adventurers and traders and W,
know this is not true. Be that as I
may, the history Of the Nation give
us, wherever these adventures AM
traders led across the continent, tn
government usually followed-tardil
with the laws OF their own promu
eating
"The movement to perpetuate III
Texas road was agitated in 1912,
memorial was prepared in 1913 an
presented to the Legislature askin
for an appropriation to survey an
mark the road, which did not pas
Buoyed with fresh hopes, the commit
tee went to work to secure the fund
to mark the road, and realizing tn
erection of monuments a sacred &C
and TO say positively our maps an
road historically correct, We secure
the services of Prof. w. Z. Dunn
the State University to 20 to Was
ington, New York and also to scare
the State archives and to prepare
map to make the survey by. TIL
committee has the boulders fund, 5.
500, subscribed and part out at !
terest. A bill is pending in the lie
islature asking the State to make tn
survey, that We may erect our boz
ders, the one hundred subscribe
marking noted crossings of river
forts, battle scenes, noted dead, h
toric places and towns along 4
way"