Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-04
PLAN TO TURN
AUTO TRAVEL
TO SO. TEXAS
Conference Called At
Houston Dec. 10 to
Discuss Highway
Situation

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Dec. 3.-The
San Antonio Chamber Of Commerce
announces that with the cooperation
of the Houston Chamber of Com
merce il is proceeding with
plans 10 turn national automobile
travel into South Texas and 70 make
San Antonio and Houston distribut-
ing stations for homeseekers and in
~vestors. Fortunately the foundation
for the development Of national
travel that will tax hotels and home
seekers and travellers into South
Texas has been we'll laid by the ten
years development of the Old Span
ish Trail nov the most nationally
noted highway on the continent.
The trip of VIM. II. Furlong. of the
San Antonio Chamber Of Commerce,
Is the first step to thoroughly in
form the North and East on the high
way progress in South Texas but this
must be backed by constant work to
build up the travel movement and to
close the gaps in the trunk lines.
Plans for this, il is expected, viii
be adopted at q conference at Hous-
ton December 10 with the Old Span
ish Trail and the chambers of COM
merce of Houston, San Antonio,
Beaumont and the other chambers
between New Orleans and FL Paso
present.
Recently President Morrison Of
the South Texas Chamber Of Com
merce stated San Antonio could be
made the Los Angeles Of South Texas
and that Houston could be made the
San Francisco by developing the
South Texas trunk lines to turn the
full tide of national travel through
South Texas. South Texas is an I'M
developed empire, he said, that needs
only the inflow of people and capital
in a big way to become the greatest
geographical section in the United
States.
Great National Highway
Recently also Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Jr., writing in the Saturday Evening
Post declared the Old Spanish Trail
was today the best transcontinental
route but the fact remains that dur
ing the past few years So, 900
have been spent on the 662 miles
from New Orleans to Florida and
only $1,000, 900 on the 1900 miles
between New Orleans and FL Paso.
More complete improvement in this
sector 10 essential.
Albert Stoves, President OF the
Greater San Antonio Committee, Is to
appoint q subcommittee to work
with Houston and the Old Spanish
Trail. The Spanish Trail ~organiza-
ton has connections all over the
United States for the distribution Of
travel information and its printed
matter is the most complete OF any
highway organization in the United
States. The San Antonio Chamber Of
Commerce is well equipped to dis
tribute information about San An
tonic and South Texas.
The widening Of the San Antonio
Boerne road 10 also q part Of the
plans for creating a nationally noted
geographical section in South and
West Texas. With a boulevard
through San Antonio into the hill
popularized as q summer and winter
recreation area. The new hotels and
the numerous recreation camps show
the popular interest in the hill coun-
try and prove the Importance of a
boulevard from San Antonio not sim
ply to Boerne but to Junction and to
Fredericksburg.
Important 10 Progress
All this. according TO Mr.. Morrison,
70 important progress toward making
San Antonio a southern resort center
that q rival Los Angeles. an accom-
plishment that will 90 far toward
holding both California-bound and
Florida-bound travel in South Texas.
The meeting at Houston will seek TO
coordinate all South Texas forces,
using the Old Spanish Trail as the
great overland feeder and selling
South Texas as the greatest section
for settlement in the whole United
States. New Orleans will become n
southern pivotal point and the OST
cities and towns through Louisiana
and Texas will be distributing cen
teYs TO the OST territory.
The Old Spanish Trail now serves
California and Florida; each Of those
states now have their section Of the
Old Spanish Trail well paved with
concrete or asphalt. South Texas is
the middle third: this section Of that
trunk line myst be kept the equal Of
the other sections and South Texas
must be advertised more thoroughly
any other section, the Chamber
OF Commerce states.
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