The be-mustached old cowman gave notice that when balmy days return he will roll out his coupe, with its many signs, telling of the old trail, and move again northward over the route he once followed on horse singing soothing songs to lowing herds of Texas longhorns.

The markers the old cowboy will place will be the first tangible results of his years of ceaseless efforts to establish the fading lines of the trail as an international highway linking Mexico and Canada. For eight years Ackley has driven his automobile up and down the old trail he once rode as a youngster moving cattle from Texas plains to better grass and markets "up north." In each town and city he told influential citizens of his dream. People were kind. They listened to his story but most of them dismissed it with his departure. Even in his hometown people smiled at mention of the proposed highway. But the old cattleman was undaunted.

He had money from gas wells drilled on land he owned in the Texas Panhandle. He had nothing to live for since his wife had died. He devoted his time and funds to furthering his dream. From contacts with single citizens, Ackley visits developed into hearing before committees in towns and cities. The movement gained in importance. In Texas he found old trail drivers eager to help. The Texas Longhorn Chisholm Trail Association was organized. Texas highway commissioners were interested and gave permission to put up markers on a route to be designated by Ackley and his associates. A similar association was formed for Oklahoma at Elk City; Chairman Hawks of the Oklahoma highway commission adopted the movement as a pet project.

He formally designated the road through the state as Highway No. 34, but was instructed it was to be known as the Longhorn Chisholm Trail. Permission was given to place markers on the state right of way. Nearly every letting of contracts in Oklahma since Hawks became highway commission chairman has seen a project for improvement of the Chisholm Trail.

Now there is a graded road practically across the state. Recently he gave   permission to change the first designated route connecting the trail to Texas from Quanah to Vernon, which followed completion of a new bridge at Vernon.

A Dodge City, Kans., delegation met with the Oklahoma Trail Association last fall and has begun activities for continuing the trail northward through Kansas leaving Nebraska, North and South Dakota to be marked. A marker has been asked to be   placed in Dodge City, and the marker will be provided with the others which Ackey is having made for Texas.

Two of the cast iron, hand painted, oval shaped signs bearing the raised inscriptions "Going Up The Longhorn Chisholm Trail," will be placed in each of the 21 Texas towns county seats through which the trail passes.