The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-22
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Hasn't Been Used to Mark Santa
Fe Trail.
No One Seems to Know When 1t
viii Be.
THATOTHER THOUSAND
D. A. h. Has Given Up Trying
to Raise Funds.
Historic ThOrOughfare May Be
Only Indifferently Designated.
HATOTHER THOUSAND

There is considerable of mix-up
over the expenditure of the 81 900 voted
by the last legislature to pay for mon
uments to mark the path of the Santa
Fe trail. The thing is now in such a
middle that it is said that nothing will
be done until next fall, and the wealth.
er will probably then prevent work till
spring.
Under the law the $1,000 is to be
spent by the regent of the Daughters
of the American Revolution and the
secretary of the State Historical soci-
ETY.. The American Revolution women
took the thing up and decided that it
would be a very nice thing to raise
another 81 900 to put with the first ST.
900 given by the state, and thus get
money enough to put up a good many
more of the monuments than the funds
would otherwise permit There was
quite lot of talk about raising the
extra 81 000, but so far as known, not
a dollar has been raised, and there is
no special effort being made to raise
it.
Meantime nothing is being done tow
ard the expenditure of the money
which was voted by the state.
The general design for the monu-
ments has been selected. 1t consists of
a rectangular pillar of cement about
three feet of which will project above
the ground. 1t will be suitably inscrib-
ed. The original plan was to erect a
pillar costing 81. The $1,000 which the
state voted would therefore provide for
about 400 pillars, and leave 5000 to pay
for setting the stones. The Daughters
of the Revolution, however, decided
that they could not do the thing up
right for 81, 900, and this was what
brought up the plan for an additional
private subscription
A good many of the members are
cse14 10 xrr1z1 hoe
done, and favor going ahead and put
ting in all the monuments the society
can put in for 1000 and allowing pos
terity to place more stones if it is SO
desired. These people who favor i'm
mediate action say there is no use in
putting a monument every mile; that
three or four monuments at important
cross roads in each county viii answer
all purposes. They say it would be RI
diculouS to place the stones in the
timber, out in the midst of the prairie,
or in out of the way places where they
would never be seen. They think that
the 81, 900 voted by the legislature is
ample to do the work.
When Geo. Martin, secretary of the
state historical society was asked to
make a statement zabout the matter,
he said: T ar
''I see, that the Kansas City people
are going ahead with their plan to
mark the trail from the river to the
center of the town. The work over
here in Kansas seems to be delayed for
a time but l don't care to say any
thing about it because am merely
acting in sort of an advisory capacity.
The Daughters of the American Revo-
luton do the work, and simply rati-
fly it,
According to the Kansas City papers
the Kansas City board of public works
has asked the city council to appro-
pirate IS, 900 to mark the route of the
trail through town. The board has
recommended a stone monument with
a metal plate on top, suitably in
scribed
! The members of the Kansas City
park board also decided to have the