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1. Warren A. Beck and Yenez D. Hass^Historical Atlas of New Mexico (Norman: University of Ok- lahoma Press, 1969) p. 34 (hereafter cited as Beck and Hasse, Historical Atlas) the roads charted by the Army made use of natural passes through the mountains or existing fords across streams; there- fore it was anticipated that these roads would be flanked later by railroad lines and modern highways. 2. OscarOsbornWinther,ViaWesternExpress& Stagecoach (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968), p. 99 (hereafter cited as Winther, Western Express). California gold production was in full swing and exceeded $70 million in 1857, a level that
would be sustained until the Civil War.
3. Jack Lee Cross, “Wagon Roads Across New
Mexico, 1846-1860,” Password, Vol. 7 (Winter, 1962), pp. 24-25.
4. William Turrentine Jackson, Wagon Roads West: AStudyofFederalRoadSun’eysandConstruc- tion in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1846-1869 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965), pp. 172-173 (hereafter cited as Jackson, Wagon Roads).
5. Ibid., p. 325.
6. Ibid., p. 176.
7. Ibid., pp. 177, 221.
8. Albert H. Campbell, Report Upon the Pacific
Wagon Roads (Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1969), p. 9 (hereafter cited as Campbell,
Report).
9. Jackson,WagonRoads,pp.178-179,227.
10. Ibid., pp. 220-223.
11. Ibid., pp. 178, 222.
12. Ibid., p. 223. Jackson erroneously calculated
104 days.
13. Averam Burton Bender, “A Study of Mes-
calero Apache Indians, 1846- 1880,” American In- dian Ethnohistory: Indians ofthe Southwest, Vol. 11, edited by and compiled by David Agee Horr (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1974), p. 73 (hereafter cited as Bender, “Mescalero Apache”).
14. Campbell, Report, p. 9.
15. This is substantially the route that the railroad and Interstate 10 follow today.
16. Senate Reports, 35th Congress, Second Ses- sion, Executive Document 36 (1858), p. 77 (hereafter cited as Senate Reports, Executive Docu-
ment 36, 1858). Perhaps, considering all the lives lost in or near Cooke’s Canyon over the next 25 years (some sources claim 400 deaths), the decision not to dig a large well near present day Deming was an unfortunate mistake.
17.Ibid., pp.80-82.
18. Ibid., p. 87.
19. Ibid., p. 85.
20. Ibid., p. 92; And, according to the Mesilla
Miner, June 9, 1860, p. 2, Jones was still trying to build the Rio Grande Bridge by enticing subscrip- tions. This project failed to materialize. According to Charles Leland Sonnichsen, Pass of the North: Four Centuries on the Rio Grande (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1968), pp. 89-91, the Spanish and Mexicans built and periodically rebuilt a bridge at Frontera, from 1797 until 1819. The final structure was 17 feet wide, over 500 feet long, and was sup- ported by 8 caissons. This would have required spans averaging nearly 60 feet, a significant en- gineering feat considering the size of available trees.
21. Stanley Crocchiola, The Civil War in New Mexico (Denver: The World Press, Inc., 1960), p. 107. Jones was a Mesilla merchant and involved in the Fort Fillmore sutler’s store; Kelley, a surveyor
and entrepreneur, was to become the publisher of the Mesilla Times; and Owings was a physician. These three would also be the principals behind a development scheme centered around Mowry City, see Report of the Mowry City Association, Territory of Arizona, for 1859 (Mesilla, Arizona [New Mexico Territory]: Mowry City Association, 1859, p. 2.
22. Senate Reports, Executive Document 36, 1858, p. 87.
23. Jackson, Wagon Roads p. 228.
24. Ibid., pp. 229-230.
25. Ibid., p. 365.
26. Ibid., p. 232. However, no evidence was lo-
cated that the money was ever paid.
27. Averam Burton Bender, The March ofEmpire:
Frontier Defense in the Southwest, 1848-1860 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1952), pp. 69-70.
28. Odie B. Faulk, Destiny Road (New York: Ox- ford University Press, 1973), p. 113 (hereafter cited as Faulk, Destiny Road).
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