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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
dolph B. Marcy gives the names of important camp sites and the
distance from camp to camp as follows: (i) from Comanche Creek
to Leon Springs-8.88 miles, (2) from this point to Barela Springs
[Barrilla Spring] 33.86 miles, (3) from here to Fort Davis 28
miles, (4) to Barrel Springs 18.42 miles, (5) to Dead Man's Hole
13.58 miles, (6) next to Van Horn's Wells 32.83 miles, (7) to
Eagle Springs 19.74 miles, (8) to the mouth of Cafion de los
Camenos 32.03 miles, (9) then the road runs up the Rio Grande
to San Eluzario [San Elizario] 61.13 miles, (io) then to Socorro
9.25 miles, and (11) finally to Fort Bliss 15 miles.60
Without great difficulty, one may find the present-day loca-
tions of nearly all of these points from the locations of existing
towns or from land records. Comanche Creek (actually the point
was Comanche Springs) is at modern Fort Stockton. Barrilla
Spring is preserved by land records as the west corner of Pecos
County.6' The stage stand that took the name was on Limpia
Creek (principal branch of Barrilla Creek) two miles to the south.
Fort Davis was at the present-day town of the same name. Barrel
Springs are located in Section 1, Block 1, of the Houston and
Texas Central Railway Company lands in Jeff Davis County.62
Dead Man's Hole is in Section 31, Block 3, of the Houston and
Texas Central Railway Company lands, also in Jeff Davis
County."8 Van Horn's Wells are west of Lobo, nine miles south of
the town of Van Horn and less than a mile west of U. S. High-
way 90.84 The site of Eagle Springs is preserved by the 1917 Gen-
eral Land Office map of Hudspeth County. It is Section 9, Town-
ship 9 South, Block 68, of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company
lands. Cafion de los Camenos is near the Rio Grande, southwest
of present Sierra Blanca. From this locality the road went up the
Rio Grande past San Elizario and Socorro to Fort Bliss and
Franklin, both of which were in what is presently El Paso.
o6Randolph B. Marcy, The Prairie Traveler: A Handbook for Overland Expedi-
tions (New York, 1859), 289-29o.
61,See General Land Office Map of Jeff Davis County, dated 1915. The spring
that marks the west corner of Pecos County is shown on this map.
o2Ibid.
63Ibid.
o4Ibid. The stage stand was in Hudspeth County, but it was on an extension of
the Jeff Davis County map that the stage stand was shown.
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