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Show Marking the Santa Fe Trail. The famous old Sauta Ko trail is to bo marked ho that Jta location will uot bo forgotten. Tho school children of Kansas wore anked to contrlbuto a penny each to sccuro suitable markers mark-ers for this pioneer highway of progress, prog-ress, and HG9.1CC responded. With 1 s fund tho trail will bo outlined in an enduring manner from Kansas City to Hunta Fo, 800 miles as the caw vans made it, tho time consumed for the nuud trip being 110 dnys. It Is braved tho -all datcB back to 1540, whon a Spanish adventurer led an expedition ex-pedition from Mexico as far north as Kansas. Hut It was not until tho beginning be-ginning of tho last century that the American trader and ploieor utilized the long trail that stretched out Into tho wilderness of tho now El Da I rado. |