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Show ( tho the ) Congressional Library 446 in ( Washington 'NA'ashingtoll NAashingtoll ) . He ( Lad had ) a translation made ( liiniself himself ) . ( R . ( 1561 10561 ) . ) In his ( investigation finrestigation ) of ( Escalante's Escalantes ) expedition ( lie he ) did not find that Escalante used boats at any place . ( R 1561 . ) He made ( an ail ) investigation from many different sources , of the highway that is known as the " ( Span Span- Span ) ¬ ish ( Trail" Trail ) and he went over a large part of the trail himself four times . As far as ( can call ) be ( deter- deter ) mined , the " ( Spanish "Spanish Spanish ) ( Trail" Trail ) was first laid out by William Wolfskill , whowas the first man to ( estab- estab ) lish a fruit ( farm farin ) in Los Angeles and who went over the trail in 1830 . The trail was used after that annually in each direction by a caravan from Monterey to Santa Fe and from Santa Fe to ( Monte Monte- Monte ) rey , interchanging goods at different localities . Los Angeles was also a destination , Monterey being the headquarters at that time , Santa Fe , a thriving town in 1830 , was the capital of New Mexico , and before that Monterey was the headquarters of the missions on the Pacific Coast . ( R . 1562 . ) Jedidiah Smith was the first ( Mormon Monmon ) to go through to Southern California , he believes , in | 1827 . He went from ( what -what what ) is now Salt Lake City down past Utah Lake and up the Sevier | River . He crossed from the ( Sevier -Sevier Sevier ) River about | where ( Parowan Parowau ) , Utah , is now located , and ( contin- contin ) I _ ued over to Nevada about where the railroad [ the Salt Lake Route ] cuts the state line and hit the head of Meadow Valley Wash ( and aud ) down the Muddy River now called the Adams River . |