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Show Sl.W MKA1CO kl.ia OLUKS1' iil(.ilW A) l. COVflXKNT The inubt ancient highway in North Auieica is said to be tiie New Mexico section of the National Old Trails Itoad. According to Judge J. M. Lowe, president of the National Old Trails Itoad association, this section of .the great highway is the 'oldest road established on the North American continent. It extends from Socorro to Santa, Fe about one hundred hun-dred and fi.'ty miles. Don Juan Onate a Spaniard, who was governor of j New Spain (which comprehended all of Mexico) in the fifteenth century, was the first man to establish a road In America Long years before the 'Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock, Onate had marked out and established estab-lished this road, which started at Santa Barbara, now Jiminez, Mexico, Mex-ico, and ended in the vicinity of; what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico. This territory had been claimed by the King of Spain in 1598 and 1606 Santa Fe was founded at the capital of New Spain. This route was used later as a highway over which goods were freighted from the Gulf of Mexico Mex-ico via Vere Cruz via the City of Mexico and Santa Barbara, until the Santa Fe trail was opened under the Act of" Congress of 1824. This old road was then known as the "Cami-no "Cami-no Real" "The Kings Highway." and it traversed the Rio Grande Valley Val-ley from the Gulf to Santa Fe. A |