Arizona republican., 1920-06-06
WRITES VIVID
 STORY IF OLD
 SPANISH TRAIL
State al ,, Historian In Magazine Tells Colorful Tale of Fast Days and the Present westward March of His toric Route.

n all history the march has been westward; now the west stretches hand to the east and says. 4Hurrv for We are building, building, building 9 writes Col James Fl. McCIntock. state nistor1an. under the heading West ward March of the old spanish Trail" May. ''1-iAe Aoi
 The colonel in his fascinating style touches briefly upon the history of Arlzona having direct bearing upon xne traIs which is routed through Fnoenix. He wrote the story as a courtesy to the Phoenix chamber of commerce.
 After recounting the old mission gays of La Florida and California of St- Augustine the first city in the present United States, and Santa Fe. the second, he says:
 NOW those old days are coming pack Tn memory as progress and de- Nelopment proceed along the Old spanish Trail. Through Arizona. down the Gila valley and through the Yuma gateway to California along the route or the Old Spanish trail of today, both ancient and modern conquests pur- sued thelr ways Over this trail poured that ceaseless and picturesque tide of Bolo-seekers, over it went the Spanish expedition that founded San Francisco over It went Fremont and Kit Carson ana then too General Kearney when he occupied California and bit later was the historic Mormon pilgrimage.
 Then came the day of rapid tran sit. great stage coach service: then stln more rapid transit. the railroad flashing over the old trail. Now comes the vogue of the traveller in his auto mobile and men and women are work Ing to make the highway one complete and finished artery from sea to sea. TO the credit of Arizona and the glory Of her old history her people are among the leaders in this Old Spanish Trail movement
 "The Old Spanish trail traveller through the southland from Florida to | the western sea will find especially in | teresting the route through Arizona. | Within the land now known as Arizona | most of the travel of the early days, | dating to 153s. was from New Spain | northward although Cabeza de Vaca in 1535-6 managed to make the journey that lies between the Gulf of Mexico l and the Gulf of Cortez. now the Gulf | of California. by a more southerly l line
 ssThe first known European to travel | along the Gila river route from the | friendly Papago settlements, near the present site of Tucson. was a Jesuit | priest, Eusebio Kino. not spaniard, | but German by birth, of the family | name Of Kuhn" Col McClintock tells
  missions on the Santa Cruz river and GiIa river among Indian tribes. He continues:
 Rich in Historic Interest
 "A fact little kEown is that the city of San Francisco was founded by a Spanish officer from the Arizona pre- sidio of Tubac in the Santa Cruz val ley He was Captain Juan Bautista de Anza. With an advance party, on March 28,s 1776 he established the Presidio of San Francisco on the Col den Gate"
 He tells of the days of the trappers, of the stage coach days. the treaty with Mexico, of the early miners and pros pectors, Apache wars and then the be- ginning of the present era. He con- cludes:
 seF1orence at the Gila crossing, is set fin the midst of an immense agricul- turaI domain A few hours journey brings the traveller to Mesa and Tempe I in the suburbs of Phoenix, all sur rounded by 300, 900 acres of cultivated | lands, irrigated from the celebrated i Roosevelt dam. Westward the main | highway of the future will be by way of Yuma, down the historic Gila, and