The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-02-25
DIXIE HIGHWAY
MEANS OPENING
FOR BRUNSWICK
WILL PLACE THIS CITY AND
COUNTY ON GREAT LOOP
ROUTE THAT GIVES HEAVY
TOURIST TRAVEL.

Completion of the eastern coast
section of the Dixie highway through
| Glynn county and the city of Bruins
wick will mean vastly more to the city
and county within the next two years
than was even dreamed by the promot-
ers of the original Dixie route" is the
message that comes to Brunswick
through S. A. lie Blanc, secretary of
the Old Spanish Trail association.
with headquarters at Mobile. and Field
Secretary Gilbrcath of the Dixie high
way. The increased importance OF
this north and south highway is
brought about by the enthusiastic
work of the Old Spanish Trail, which
forms a junction with the Dixie high
way at Tallahassee, Fla, and is de
signed to extend its eastern section
from Miami to New Orleans.
Through the automobile blue book
the Dixie route and the Old Spanish
trail are being widely advertised this
winter and it is stated at Old Spanish
trail headquarters that thousands of
northern tourists are already inquir-
ing just how they can best reach this
section of the southeast.
at is really an undiscovered country
to the most of America and its won
derful possibilities will only be open
ed for investment when thousands of
motorists are passing over these high
ways as they are doing each summer
on the Lincoln highway and the high
t-WTTy U ga Il y IlGl1 SGG-
retary of the Old Spanish trail What
the railroads have failed to do for the
great southeast while they busiy en-
gagged in fostering the advancement
of the Pacific coast and the west, will
be accomplished by these highways. 1t
is a safe prediction to say that from
300 to 400 cars a day will be travelling
these highways within the next three
years. That happened on the Lincoln
highway and it will happen here in the
| southeast
at means that our land possibilities
will be realized and that there will be
capital for investment in the kind of
enterprises for which this section of
| the south has all of the natural advant-
ages Instead of Brunswick being off
the main line as it is now regarded
by the railroads, it will be on the main
and favored line of tourist travel. The
motoring tourists of America have
only to discover this section of the
country to bring in new methods with
the money to develop long neglected
natural resources.
what the railroads accomplished
for California the through Dixie high
ways and its connections will bring
about for this great southeast"
Since the agitation for the Old Span
ish trail and the short route for the
Dixie highway, Jacksonville influence
has been at work and brick road to
the wes' rard will soon be completed
to the DuN county line in Florida,
which means the establishment within
a short time Of motorist route across
, Columbia SuWanee, Madison, Jeffer-
son. Leon and Gadsden counties on in
to west Florida and on to Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana.
This means directly that thousands
of tourists now visiting the gulf coast
will make the swing trip over the Dix
lie highway which will bring them into
Glynn county. Advertisement from
each county that the highway is com
pleted within its border will win we'll
deserved and desirable publicity
through the Dixie magazine and the
tourist and auto publications Of the
country.