Cañon City record., 1910-06-30
From Mondays Daily.

Pueblo, Colorado, June 26.- The
most successful good roads campaign
in the West today and one OF the lead
country. the recent extension of the
territory wherein this great highway
will be built, and the great interest In
link in what is hoped eventually to
be coast-to-coast thoroughfare.
lends especial interest to a trip on
which A d. Hamilton has recently
embarked from Ottawa. Kansas.
Mr.. Hamilton Will traverse the New
Santa Fe Trail, which is the official
name of this great highway. and
which closely follows the famous old
Santa Fe trail. which extended from
Westport Landing. now Kansas City.
TO Santa Fe. New Mexico. and which
began its operation in 1921.
Mr.. Hamilton and his family will
make this journey in an oid-fashioncd
prairie schooner. The modern motor
car, now speeding over the fine high
way that stretches across Kansas and
Colorado, will not be the vehicle In
which he and his family will go. They
have certain reasons. some econom-
ical, some sentimental. for following
the old trail and the new In the
means OF conveyance common to the
times when such highways were the
only avenues OF conveyance in the
Great Southwest.
From Ottawa to Las Vegas will be
the ro.te travelled by the Hamilton
family. This trip will cover what
was set down In the old Biographies
as THE Great American Desert" now
one vast garden. and. In the territory
OF the Tooth meridian. brought about
by means OF irrigation.
A. ID. Hamilton comes from Cincin-
natl. and he has long had In mind Just
such trip as this He recently went
to Ottawa. Kansas. where he has n
nephew. T. p. Hamilton. formerly a
car inspector with the Atchison. To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad. which
traverses the Old trail, and prevailed
upon his nephew to accompany him.
The party will travel by easy
stages. Travel behind team Is all
right said Mr.. Hamilton. IF you have
your time. Having time. We favor
this means OF transportation
Reaching the famous wheat fields OF
Western Kansas. the Hamiltons will
help some relatives harvest their gold
en- crop and then resume their journ-
ey They expect to reach Las Vegas
about the last OF August.
The motor power win be a span OF
mules and a horse. Six persons Will
ride in the wagon. 4. D. Hamilton is
not new to the prairie schooner busi-
ness. Thirty years ago he made the
trip from Texas to Iowa In this way.
The New Santa Fe Trail is great
highway. II is now actually building
from Kansas City TO Canon City, Colo,
and from LaJunta. Colorado. down to
Santa Fe. New Mexico. The old trail
proceeded from Kansas City. 10 the
south of the Kansas river, bearing off
all the time TO the south until II
struck the Arkansas valley about the
center OF Kansas. Thence II follow
ed the Arkansas river to La Junta,
where II bore off to the southwest
through Trinidad, Ration and Las We
gas to Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe Trail is a great road
way. and originally ran from Hutch
inson, Kansas. to the Colorado state
line. II was the outgrowth OF a long
cherished thought OF some Kansas
and was agitated in
Kansas newspapers and commercial
organizations. II finally resulted in
great conference at Hutchinson,
Kansas. January 81. 1910. when steps
we're taken to improve township and
county roads. east and west, end to
end. in such a manner as to make
continuous highway. New bridges
were required and were put in: roads
had to be Strengthened here and there;
new pieces had to be laid out at fire.
quent intervals: sandy pieces OF road