History and government of New Mexico . llow square to make an inclosure for the animalsand a fortification against Indian attack. The outcomingjourney took from two to three months; the return tripwith a lighter load, about a month and a half. Freighterswould haul goods to Santa Fe at ten to twelve cents apound. 130. Government Support. — The Santa Fe trade,Americas first romantic adventure in foreign commerce,was the outgrowth of the individual initiative of the Westand received but slight encouragement from Washingtonat any time. Governor Bacas proposal (sec. 126) forjoint protection brought
History and government of New Mexico . llow square to make an inclosure for the animalsand a fortification against Indian attack. The outcomingjourney took from two to three months; the return tripwith a lighter load, about a month and a half. Freighterswould haul goods to Santa Fe at ten to twelve cents apound. 130. Government Support. — The Santa Fe trade,Americas first romantic adventure in foreign commerce,was the outgrowth of the individual initiative of the Westand received but slight encouragement from Washingtonat any time. Governor Bacas proposal (sec. 126) forjoint protection brought small results. Though UnitedStates Senator Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri, had got alaw through Congress in 1824 providing for a survey of theTrail, the survey amounted to nothing because the tradersrefused to follow its roundabout course. Only a few times,as in 1829 and 1843, did the United States furnish militaryprotection for the caravan to the Arkansas. Each time thesending of an escort stirred up a storm of protest in io8 THE MEXICAN PERIOD 109 Western pioneer commerce made slight appeal to the Eastand, therefore, received slight, encouragement from thegovernment. 131. The Trails to California. — The overland tradefrom the east gave a new stimulus to the desire for anoutlet to the California coast. In 1830 Antonio Jose Bacaled a party of New Mexicans west from the Rio Grandein the region of Las Palomas (pa-lomas) by the Santa Ritacopper mine to the Gila, down to the Colorado, and acrossinto southern California. Over the same trail EwingYoung, a Tennesseean, with a party of trappers, went toCalifornia before the close of the year. This route sooncame into prominence as the Gila Trail. That year (1830) also William Wolf skill, a Kentuckian,who had been trapping in northern New Mexico since 1822,fitted out a party to trap in California and set out fromTaos late that season or early in the spring of 1831. Fol-lowing the Old Spanish Trail Csec. 101) northwest int
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