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SANTA FE Traders, and those desirous
of crossing the Plains to New Mexico,
are informed that the undersigned will
carry the United States Mail, from Inde-
pendence to Santa Fe, for four years. Mo
commencing on the first day of July, 1857,
in stages drawn by six mules.

The Stages will leave Independence and
Santa Fe on the first and fifteenth of each
month They will be entirely new, and
comfortable for passengers well guarded,
and running through each way, in from
Travellers to
twenty to twenty-five days.

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May 1st to November 1st..... 125 00
Provisions, arms and ammunition fur-
nished by the proprietors.
extra baggage will be
Packages and
transported when possible to do so, at
the rate of 35 cents per pound in summer,
and 50 cents in winter, but no package
will be charged less than one dollar.

FORM

The proprietors will not be responsible
for any package worth more than fifty
dollars, unless contents given and special-
ly contracted for, and all baggage at all
times at the risk of the owner thereof.
In all cases the passage money
you for t
must be paid in advance, and passengers
must stipulate to conform to the rules anyone t
which may be established by the under-
signed, for the government of their line
of stages, and those travelling with them
on the plains.

No passenger allowed more than forty
pounds of baggage in addition to the
necessary bedding.

Mr. Levi Speidieburg, at Santa Fe, and J&W R. Bernard & Co., at Westport. Mo., and our conductor and agents are authorisec. to engage passengers and receipt for passage money

ADVERTISEMENT OF THE SANTA FE TRAIL FROM

JOURNAL OF 1858

trappers and hunters. The location of "The Caches" was five miles west of the site of Dodge City, Kas.

Ford of the Arkansas river, 392. This was the regular crossing after 1829 and was known as the Cimarron crossing. Its location was twenty miles above Dodge City. The ford was about half way between Independence and Santa Fe.

Battle ground, 407; so called from a battle in which a small band of Texans defeated a larger band of Mexicans.

Cimarron river, Lower spring, 450. This "river" had no water flowing in its bed in the dry season except at the springs. This part of the route was especially dreaded because of the scarcity of water.

river.

Middle spring of the Cimarron, 486.

Willow Bar, 512.

Upper spring, 530.

Cold spring, 535; at this point the road left the valley of the Cimarron

McNees' creek, 560. This was the site of one of the melancholy tragedies of the trail. McNees and Daniel Munroe, traders of Franklin, Mo., started to return from Santa Fe in the summer of 1828. The exact circumstances of their death are not known, but it is supposed that Pawnee Indians crept up to the traders as they slept near the caravan and shot them with their own guns. McNees was found lifeless and was buried on the banks of the stream that bore his name. Monroe lived several hours after he was found before he died. He was buried in the valley of the Cimarron.

Rabbit Ear creek, 580. This name arose from the fancied resemblance of two hills near-by to rabbit's ears. The elevations were a guide to travelers on that part of the journey. It was near the head of Rabbit Ear creek that Major Stephen II. Long passed in 1820 in his futile search for the Red river.

Round Mound, 588; a notable landmark that was important as a guide to travelers before the route had been fully established. The height of the mound above the plain was six hundred and ten feet.

Rock creek, 596.

Point of Rocks, 615.

Rio Colorado, 635. This stream was supposed to be the upper course of Red river until 1820 when Major Stephen H. Long discovered that it was the upper course of the Canadian river.

Ocate creek, 641.

Santa Clara spring, near Wagon Mound, 662. It was there that the mountain branch from Bent's fort joined the main trail.

Rio Mora, 684; last of the Canadian waters.

Rio Gallinas, 704.

Ojo de Bernal spring, 721.

San Miguel, 727; the first settlement of any consequence before reaching Santa Fe.

Pecos village, 750.

Santa Fe, 775.

Wetmore's gazeteer of Missouri, for 1837, gives the list of places and distances from New Franklin through Independence to Santa Fe as follows: From New Franklin to Independence in Jackson County: