S.AH sab;. mn-S-teE spahish trail or augibut days Long before Boerne w as Is id out Spanish and other pioneers of this country established through Boerne what became known as the San Baba. Trail3 and apparently Indians before the white main's day traveled the same way 0 Boerne, therefore, has a peculi arly intimate interest in the Old Spanish Trail of today which is being constructed through Boerne from Florida to California's In earliest history we find records of pack train journeys between the Chihuahua country in old Mexico and San Antonio» Because of mountains, chasms and other natural obstacles those old trails went up around by Ft Stockton and finally through what is h'o Boerne into Sms Antonio o The old Spanish Pass is understood as having taken its name from those pack train days0 This story is a result' of t he inter eat of Boerne people in develo-ing this old historyo Ho Jo Graham, Julius Ho Luckenbach, Charles Herff ani others, hafe recalled many old traditions o Mr, Graham spent evening with H. B, Ayres, the managing director of the Old Spanish- fra Association some time ago and recalled raapy of these traditions to him. He also suggested that 71. M« Locke, the county surveyor at San Antonio for 43 years would very likely be in $os>ss&&i®E of records containing valuable facts. Mr. Locke did possess this knowledge fortified by h“ surveying experience all. over this country and many experiences that back into pioneer conditions,. In 1683 It is recorded that Mendoza went northward from ilexicoe having left around El Paso and proceeded down the Rio Grande to the junction of the Conch on river; thence to the Alamito Greek, then norf ward over the old Salt Lake Trail to Comanche Springs (Ft Stockton) then across Horsehead Crossing and in time reached the Indian village^ where he established a Mission, the rui ns of which may today be seen