'■ ill 3/IB.. ['HAIL Conversation today with Hr. '[. Locke, county surveyor, ?c•• <-.r county. Hr. Locke has been surveying in this local 5 ty for* forty-threo years, and has e personal familiarity with the old trail.-, olri history, old landmarks, etc. -tin 1683 it is recorded, that hen do?..-; went northward from Mexico, having left around \1 frso and proceeded dovaa the [do Iranfla to the junction of the Conches river; thence to the Alamfto Creek, than northward over the old Dalt Lake trail to Comanche 'fprinrs f?t. f-'bockton) , then a cross .Horsehedd Crossing and in -time reached .the .Inn fern villages where he established s Miasi hi’ch may today be • ••• San Saba , Pe-xas. Later great stagecoach trails from Hexice developed northward over tki s ge-ner-i 1 e< ■ 6 ■■ the* gout w t'-o t-onio. Q her -Lreke—thr-O sOh the Davis mountains in<3 : :-o north of the fla-sj s mountains, creating the old stagecoach trail's from [fin ...atonic .vestward to aL Paso and through to Dali for nia.} At f5an Saba are still to be seen ruins of .-in old -Spanish fort, 'rhe traditions, are the Span ish had a rich mine there the location of which has become lost find that the fort was in protection of that industry. The San Saba trail from San A ntonio, according to Hr. Locke and the maps which he has, left the front of San Fernando Cathedral at San’Lntonio. A11 old roods start from the Bl.asa in front of this Cathedral. 'Che San Saba trail proceeded.‘to San Pedro Springs; thence east of but more or less parallel'with, the present rood to Leon Creek, cross!'; git at the present crossing; thence almost on the present road to the spring at Leon Springs. From A.ue it follows the old left-hand or stage road to Boern«e; thence by the' present road to the Spanish Pass, through the .Pass to the right of the present road ; thence down, the valley of sink’s Creek, crossing the Quad-