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OLD SPANISH TRAIL
WEIMAK. General farming; chicken and turkey raising. Holling country and pretty farms. JACKSON HOTEL, small country style place.
WEIMAK FILLING STA., F. Thuniann. tires, tire repairs, grease rack, accessories, barbecue sandwiches, cold drinks.
SCHULENBl'RG. Cotton and pretty farm section; nice views over the hills. Only eotton-seed flour mill in world; shipped everywhere for bread used in diabetic cases. This part of Texas German and Bohemian. The Carnation Milk condensing plant, the first south of Tennessee. is now being built at Schulenburg. Capacity 200.000 lbs. raw milk daily. This location selected after thorough investigation over the South.
New hotel with motion jiicture house, steam heat, baths, running wafer. Clean rooms at the station hotel. Nice camp on OST, west. Inf.—J. C. Baumgarten, OST Director.
FLATONIA. Important turkey, chicken and egg production ; cotton and pretty farms and rolling hills. Country hotel. Free camp in town. Inf.—Lee’s Garage, Chevrolet dealer—service and filling station. Competent and good.
j WAELDER. Lodging. Camp space.
*Gt)NZALES. Noted in the history of Texas liberation ijis the "Lexington of Texas.” Thirty-two of her men died i£i the Alamo. The Texans mobilized there and fired the f|rsf shut for Texas independence. Santa Ana invested the fown. State l’ark reservation in the town 011 the OST. Civic improvements progressing, asphalt streets, golf, nice residences. lticli wooded and farming country, rolling hills apd vulleys, cotton, corn, a leading poultry shipping center, nutura 1 pecan growing country. PLAZA and ALCADE hotels. Auto camp on OST. north of P. O.
SAX MAKCOS KIVEK. west of Gonzales 2% mi. Nice camp in riverside grove.
*SEGl'IN. Prosperous farming country. AUMONT HOTEL, only modern fireproof hotel between Houston and San Antonio; coffee simp good. Free camp on river, south.
GI ADAU PE KIVEK at McQueeney. Other villages westward Marion. Cibolo and Scheriz. Nice farms.
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*SAN ANTONIO. One of the most colorful and interesting cities in America. Settled in 1718 by the Spanish (same year as New Orleans by the French) San Antonio became a Spanish capital and a mission center. Five missions were located along the San Antonio river in 1718, 1720 and 1731, later to develop into extensive properties with fine church and other structures. Buildings and ruins remain as relics of an heroic and romantic past.
I’ive mission establishments were built at San Antonio and reports made in 1745 and in 1763 give data respecting them.
Mission San Antonio lie	Valero.	(The Alamo).
Mission San Jos6 y de	San Miguel Aguayo.
Mission Nuestra Seiiora de la l>ur'sima Concepcion de Acuna. In 1745 the cliureli ivas half completed; in 1702, completed. A record says the corner stone was laid May 5, 1731.
Mission San .Tuan de Capistrano. In 1745 tile buildings were of thatch; in 1762 a temporary apartment 25 varas (69.4 ft.) long was used.
Mission San Francisco de la Kspada. In 1745 the stone church was in progress;	in 1762	the church was	still in
progress.
Tlie missions were officially abandoned in 1794. The irrigating aqueducts of Sail Juan and of Kspada still irrigate tlie old mission lands. The other mission aqueducts have given way to the growing city. By 1730-1740 these aqueducts and canals were extensively developed. The engineering skill carrying the waters around tiie hills and over valleys testifies again to the intelligence that guided all those works; this may be observed today at the San Juan and the Espada aqueducts.
San Antonio is among the hills, scenic drives are in all directions; its river starts from springs within the city; the climate is dry. the sunshine constant, it is an all-year outdoor country with all outdoor sports pleasantly provided for in the parks, public places and reservations. San Antonio became the crossroads and market place of the Southwest during the turbulent Spanish. Mexican and later pioneer period of Texas.	Mexico	and California;	it	was
the capital of the cattle kings of	Texas and here	too	the
United States has its greatest military reservations with all arms of the service maintaining big properties—I he stable climate and the varied types of country permit all kinds of training and maneuvers all the year round. Southward are {arming and citrus fruit area's; northward and westward big cattle and goat ranches and rugged' hills. Good drinking water in this country.
HOTELS—BLUE IION.NET, 220 rnis,, all with bath, new, finely equipped, well located, unchanging rates $3.51) and $3.00. CROCKETT. 150 rnis., near Alamo, moderate, large sun parlor lounge, AAA lieadq., free parking.
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