Garland Globe | 1907-01-19 | Page 4 | Marking the Santa Fo Trail

Marking the Santa Fa Trail. Tho fatnoua old Santa Fe trail Is to be marked so that ItaMocatlon will not be forgotten. The school children of Kansas warn naked to contribute n penny each to secure suitable mark-era mark-era for this pioneer highway of progress, prog-ress, and 869,166 responded. With th's fund the trail will be ouUlaed in aa enduring manner from Kansas City to Santa Fa, BM miles an the caravans cara-vans made It, the time consumed for the round trip being 110 days. It Is bvileved Uie 'rail dates twvk to 1640, when n Spanish adventurer led nn expedition ex-pedition from Mexioo as far north as Kansas. But It was not until the beginning be-ginning of the last century that tho American trader and pioneer utilised the long trail that stretched out Into the wilderness of the' saw El Do redo.