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TO SANTA FÉ AND EL PASO.
Points. Distance from place to place. Distance from Fort Leavenworth
Old Pecos Church to— Miles. Miles.
Santa Fé, 24 757
Alburquerque, 65 822
Peralto (The Oteros),
La Joya, 45 887
Socorro, 18 905
Ford of Del Norte, above the ruins of Valverde,[1] 25 930
Fra Christoval, entrance of Jornada de los Muertos, 16 946
Doña Anna (Mexican town), 95 1,041
Grove on river, 15 1,056
Brazito, 16 1,072
El Paso, 32 1,104

Note.—The boundary line between the United States and Mexico, leaves the Del Norte a few miles above the town of El Paso, running west towards the Gila.

  1. The roads by Gen. Kearney's ans by Brevet Lieut. Col. Cooke's routes leave the Rio Grande for California some fifteen or twenty miles below the ford at Valverde; the former just opposite, and the latter below a point on the left bank of the river known as San Diego.