Eureka Reporter | 1906-03-16 | Page 5 | Marking Historic Old Trails

MARKING HISTORIC OLD TRAILS eastern journal praises movement now general in west A movement Is spreading through the V est which has for its object the permanent marking of the old trails along which the country was pene grated and crossed by adventurers and emigrants in the period before the construction of ial roads this is a highl praiseworthy undertaking and to the degree that the object Is faith fully accomplished will be a more noteworthy contribution f history than many of the books that are u classed out in kansas they have a trail day which is observed in the kansas public schools this year the day was observed last month the purpose of it is to instruct the chil dren in the history of the old santa ie trail with its significance in the growth of the west and through the interest thus aroused in the comma anity to raise money tor marking the course of the trail which stretched for miles across what is now the state of kansas when it was a wilder ness boston herald