New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 3, 1927, Page 5

JOURNEY OF DEATH THING OF PAST Progress Detours Old New Mexico Trail Las Cruces, N. M., June 3 (®— America’s oldest trail—the Jornado del Muerto (Journey of Death), the | highway of aboriginal man centurles before Kuropeans dreamed there ern republic, most of the commerce between northern New Mexico and the United States came this way. Over this route the members of the ill-tarred Texas-Sante Fe ex- pedition were driven in 1842 to Mexican prisons and it was over this trail that Alexander Doniphan travelled with his memorable little army of Missourians to defeat @& superior Mexican army at Brazito without the loss of a man. Road Conditions In Connecticut Road conditions and detours in the state of Connecticut made neces- sary by highway construction and repairs, announced by the state Was an American continent—soon | highway department as of June 1, is to pass into disuse. Within a few months, when the new highway up the Rio Grande v from Las Crucés to northern New Mexico is completed the Jor- nado del Muerto will be virtually @abandoned as a road, for *he first| br time on record. The trail, beginning near Old Fort Selden, stretches far to the north as part of a great natural highway through this state. Cabesa de Vaca. | are as follo Route No. 1 Branford-East Haven road is un- der construction. No delay to traf- fic. East Lyme on the Post Road, idge near Golden Spur is being constructed. Open to traffic. Fairfleld-Mill River bridge is un- der construction. No delay to traf- | fie. a member of a ' Spanish expedition which was ship- | wrecked on the coast of Texas about 1528 and who, in company with three others passed from tribe to tribe untjl they finally reached their countrymen in Mexico, ably was the first white man to see the Jornado Hlieved that he and his companions {rst looked upon it from the sum- f)it of San Augustine pass and } aversed its southern end. There { 1ttle wonder that the conquista- 'r dubbed this perflous passage & 5 “Journey of Death,” in view of P'5 dearth of water, and sand Norms of summer and “torms of winter. , The first expedition of note iown to have come over this route i \s in 1582 when Antonio de h pejo traversed the trall, followed & " the century and half after- ards by a long line of Franciscan t}iars. With the priests came sol- diers, adventurers and explorers until in 1680 the united efforts of the Indian tribes turned the north- ward tide by administering a bloody | defeat. A few years later another army under Don Diego de Vargas passed northward to the re-conquest of the lost provinces and when Mexico threw off the Spanish yvoke and New | Mexico became a part of the South- e prob- | del Meurto, Tt is | the fce | | traffic from New Canaan-Poundridge road is under construction. No delay to traf- flc. Westbrook-Pathogue River bridge work on aproach span. No delay to traffic. Route No. 2 Berlin, Beckley Crossing is under construction. No delay to traffic. Enfield-Enfleld street is under construction but road is open to one-way traffic. Newington avenue is under con- struction, but open to traffic. Route No. 3 Ridgefield-Main street and Dan- bury road. Concrete completed. Shoulders uncompleted. No detours necessary. Manchester, Manchester-Hartford road is under construction. Through Hartford to Rockville should use short detour at Love Lane. Route No. 8 Thomaston, approaches to Rey- nolds Bridge are under construction. Route No. 10 Middletown-Haddam road, grad- ing is under way. Slight delay to traffic, where shovel is working. Route No. 12 Norwich-New London road in towns of Waterford and Montville is under construction. Open to traf- fie. Through trafc will avoid this/ work by using the Norwich-Groton NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1927. road on the east side of the Thames river. Route No. 17 Norfolk, Norfolk-West Norfolk {road is under construction. No de- | tours, one-way traffic. Route No. 101 In Chaplin the bridge at South Chaplin is being constructed. One- | way traffic. | Route No. 108 | Somers-East T.ongmeadow road is | under construction, but open to traffic. Rockville-Somers road under con- struction, but open to traffic. Route No. 110 From Bloomfield Center road north, road is under construction, | traflic passing through. Windsor and Windsor Locks, Hartford-Springfield raod is under construction. Through traffic from |Hartford to Springfleld detour at Windsor going through Poguonock and suffield. Route No. 111 Marlboro-Hebron, six miles un- der construction, open to traffic, but practically impassable, Meriden-Middletown road. Grad- ing is under ‘way, road open to traf- | fic. Short section with one-way traf- |fic. Through traffic advised to de- |tour via routes 346 and 319 through East Berlin. | Route No. 112 New Haven-Middletown road is under construction. No delay to traf- | fie. Route No. 116 | Farmington-Aisop's Corner to| Country club, road_ is under con- struction, Traffic passing through. Route No. 121 Salisbury, Lakeville - Millerton iroad is under construction. Road open to travel, no detours. Route No. 123 Bridgeport-Newtown road, steam shovel grading is tinder way. One- | way traffic at congested places. | Route No. 125 Roxbury-Depot Bridge, work on the new bridge foundation under way. No dctours necessary. Route No. 126 | Norwalk-Danbury road. Concrete | completed from Norwalk to Wilton | | where by taking the State Ald road | through Ridgefield the steam shovel grading in Wilton and concrete con- | |struction with one-way traffic | north of Branchville are avoided. Route No. 133 Hartland, East Hartland Mount- ain road is under construction. Pres- ent road Is open to travel. No de- | | tours. Route No. 134 Canaan, South Canaan-Lime Rock road is under construction. Road open for travel. No detours, Route No. 141 Scotland, Canterbury road is un- {der construction. Open for travel, very rough. Route No. 143 Woodstock-Mass. Line. Road is under construction. Impassable. Putnam-Woodstock, Little River bridge is under construction. No de- tour. Route No. 138 Newtown-Bethel road, construction completed. macadam Shoulders {uncompleted. No detours nace-ur)xl Route No. 176 Westport-Wilton, Westport-Wil- ton road is under construction. No delay to traffic. . Route No. 328 ‘Waterbury-Cheshire, Waterbury- Chgghire road is under construction. No" delay to traffic, No Route Numbers Burlington Station, Burlington Center road is under construction. Open for travel. No detours. Bolton, Bolton Center road is un- derconstruction but open to traffie. Fairfleld-Old Kings Highway. Road is under construction. No de- lay to traffic. Farmington, Scott Swamp road 15! under construction. Farmington endi ofthe road is closed. Harwinton-Burlington road is un- der construction. No detours. Hartford-Newington road is under construction, but open to traffic. Newington, Newington-New Brit- ain road is under construction. Road is open to traffic. Short detour at New Brltal‘ end. Newington and West Hartford, Willard street and Newington roads are under construction, but is open to traffic. Newington-Clayton road is under construction, open to traffic. Old Saybrook-Essex cut-off. Road is under construction. Detour over Saybrook Junction road, routes 1 and 10. 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