History and government of New Mexico . yled El Caballerode Croix, went about his task with a vigor worthy of theearlier days. 101. First Attempt at Communication with California. —In July, 1776, the very year of the organization of theInterior Provinces, Fathers Escalante (es-ka-lanta) andDominguez set out from Santa Fe with eight companionsto find a trail to the new missions at Monterey, went northwest up the valley of the Chama byAbiquiu. (a-be-ku), across the upper San Juan Basin,through southwestern Colorado, across the Green andGrand rivers to Utah Lake in north central Ut
History and government of New Mexico . yled El Caballerode Croix, went about his task with a vigor worthy of theearlier days. 101. First Attempt at Communication with California. —In July, 1776, the very year of the organization of theInterior Provinces, Fathers Escalante (es-ka-lanta) andDominguez set out from Santa Fe with eight companionsto find a trail to the new missions at Monterey, went northwest up the valley of the Chama byAbiquiu. (a-be-ku), across the upper San Juan Basin,through southwestern Colorado, across the Green andGrand rivers to Utah Lake in north central Utah, thensouthwest to Sevier (se-ver) Lake. But with the trailto California uncertain and winter rapidly approaching,they turned back by the Grand Canyon and Zuni andreached Santa Fe, January 3, 1777. This Old SpanishTrail from Santa Fe into central Utah became the firststage in the more famous Spanish Trail from Santa Feto Los Angeles after 1830 (sec. 129). 102. Communication with Other Colonies. — One of THE HISTORY OF NEW MEXICO. THE CLOSE OF THE SPANISH ERA 83 the favorite projects of the commanding general of theInterior Provinces was to establish a complete system ofcommunication among the provinces under his jurisdic-tion. In 1778 he sent Juan Bautista de Anza (ansa),who had led the first overland expedition from Sonora toUpper California, as governor of New Mexico with specialinstructions to open direct communication between SantaFe and Monterey on the California coast. Three yearslater (1781) he suggested that Anza undertake similarcommunication with Coahuila, northern Sonora, and SanAntonio, Texas. New Mexico was becoming a center ofoperations. In the first and second of these projectsnothing was accomplished. In the third, the route toSonora, Anza took a hundred and fifty men to the south-west, hoping to reopen the old seventeenth century traderoute (sec. 74) to the Gila country and the presidio of SantaCruz. But he came out at Janos (ha nos) in New Bis-cay, a poi
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