Mohave County miner., 1916-09-30
SANTA FE TRAIL OVER GOLDROAD SUMMIT IS
 TRACED BY PIONEER
cFrOm oatman Section Daily Miuer.)

lHG COlllHlCN4OAA ny NAA~ SN~S~ N@~ county of the new road over the Gold road hill, marking an epoch as it does, in transportation in Mohave county, causes the mind of any person who has a reverence for the past to revert back to the old Santa Fe trail and to wish to know just where it is located and where sections of it may still be seen. Yesterday George Miller, a pioneer who has been in the vicinity of Oatman as long, perhaps, as any white person, courteously ac- ceded to a request of the Daily Miner correspondent to make a journey out to the Goldroad summit and point out what is left of the historical old high way.
 From Kingman east and west, ac- cordingly to MT. Miller, the old emi- grant or Santa Fe trail is the road now in use. East of Kingman it's route is followed quite generally by the Santa Fe railway, as far as Flag staff and across the New Mexican line. From Kingman toward oatman the old trail is the same almost ex- actly as the road now followed by teams and autos, being in almost a direct line across the desert and talk ing over the mesa to the gulch below Little Meadows. Crossing this mesa the roadway is mostly solid rock and has never washed out much. It IS worn down a few inches and that is all, but when a person stops to ex- anime the formation and to consider the long years of wear it can be un- derstood more readily how those tracks were worn down and what caused them to not be worn down a great deal more.
 It seems that the track must have come up through the middle of the wash at Little Meadows about the same as now, but above there the emigrant road swerved of a few hun dred yards to the north, keeping rather close to the center of the wash there as well. It crosses it and back again, according to the understanding of Mir. Miller. At that place the old county road just now abandoned is the straightest and most direct one of the lot, coming across the mesa for the center of the pass, which is named Beale pass, locally called the Goldroad summit. The new grade swerves to the south and skirts the southern edge of the basin on an easy and almost unchanging ascent to the summit.
 Every one who has ever been ovel the road will remember that some thing like half mile east of the sum init there is a spring and little bencl camping place on the old county road This was an emigrant camping ground. Just below and to the north
 east is little dark red butte. Int emigrant trail comes in from tn, north side of this little butte and a
 that spot is quite steep.
 From there on west to the summit
 it is just across the gulch west anc
 south of the late county road. 4
 stone can be thrown from one to tn, other, their distance apart averaging
 perhaps, 125 feet. It continues t,
 the summit in that manner and botl
 cross the latter where the present GU lis. But here a new factor comes int,
 consideration. Many years ago tn,
 government let contract to a mal
 named Bishop to build a mail roa'
 from Albuquerque to San Bernardino Bishop is thought by Mir. Miller t
 have been a resident of San Jose an,
 also it is believed that he had in
 terested with him in the contract Lieu
 tenant Beale, pathfinder of the Gen eral Fremont days and after whor
 Beale pass was named. Bishop, O , the whole, merely repaired the ol Santa Fe emigrant trail, in som
 places making detours for a bette grade or to improve other conditions 5 Between Kingman and the Goldroa ? summit he followed the Santa Fe roa
 with very slight variations. From tn but light wagon and team coul t little butte spoken of to the sunni he merely utilized and graded the ol p trail and that fact, together with it long and general use as a highwa afterward for many years, account , for the fact that from the butte t ? the summit it is not dim, but is yer
 plain. In a place or two it is washe out for three or four feet in deptl y only way to get the revenue is to p 7 them pay their proportion
 r Owing to lack of space we can