The Salina Journal from Salina, Kansas • Page 18

18 The Great Plains The Salina Journal ON THE QUINDARO ROAD photot Harry Hughes, 763 Vassar Drive, Salina and Quindaro State Road daro route on a map of Saline a member of the Saline County used between 1869-72 in eastern County. Arrows point to other Historical Society, stands in Saline County. At right, Hughes roads and trails he has docu- shallow (above) carved out by points to portion of Salina-Quin- merited in the county. Historic wagon, supply trail now cattle haunt Quindaro Rd.revisited By BILL BURKE A part of Saline County and Central Kansas history was rediscovered recently in a pasture owned by Byrne Kelley east of Salina. A route, believed to be the Salina and Quindaro State Road, winds its way southeast through Greeley and Solomon townships, cutting through sections 13 and 19.

Several miles of the road may have overlapped with the (W. Phillips road. Phillips was the founder of Salina. The old road is highly visible through pasture land east of Iron Mound, a landmark about six miles southeast of Salina. It was to follow the Salina and Quindaro Railroad, which never materialized and the road has remained untouched for more than a century, trod on only by cattle, and far enough off the main highways through Saline and Dickinson Counties to be forgotten.

Kelley, 2063 Raymond; Neil Olson, Rt. Harry Hughes, 763 Vassar Drive and I traveled a short portion of the frontier road by modern automobile where wagons and oxen plyed their trade more than a century ago. Trails and wagon roads were nothing new to Saline County during the middle of the 19th century. Byrne Kelley dies Byrne Kelley, 63, died Monday morning at St. John's Hospital.

Funeral services for the farmer and purebred livestock breeder, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary, Queen of the Universe Catholic Church. See details, Page 9. Hughes, a member of the Saline County Historical Society, who once farmed in the northwest portion of the county, has documented most of the old roads and trails in the county.

Such roads as the Smoky Hill, Fort Barker, Mulberry Creek, Fremont, Old Military, Phillips, Fort Riley and Santa Fe Trail routes crossed and crisscrossed the county. One which cuts across the northeast corner of Saline County in Dayton township came out of Solomon in Dickinson County, went northwest into Ottawa County and was dubbed the Solomon Valley Trail by Hughes when he failed to find a name for it. He has marked and documented most of the road, but the road believed to be the Salina and Quindaro Road, was new to him. "You can get spotted documentation," Hughes said as he walked a portion of the trail, which sinks into the prairie to a depth of two or three feet, and is quite wide, at places. "But here you can walk out and say here it is.

This is like finding a gold mine well almost." When the original section lines were surveyed about 1858, the surveyors often took field notes of geographic features, vegetation and the type of soil. The trails were recorded with the register of deeds. But sometimes the surveys where not accepted because of herd laws, home owners and private owners. And when township section roads began to develop, the trails or roads were abandoned. Travelers had to stay on section lines and out of private pastures.

The Salina and Quindaro Road was noted from records and maps in the Saline County Engineer's office as a project of the WPA in the 1930s. The state road strecthed out of Salina, beginning at the center of town at the ferry crossing, now marked by a momument to the ferry at the corner of Iron Avenue and Fourth Street. The road continued out what is now Iron Avenue, rambling around Iron Mound to the east of Salina, crossing central Greeley township to southern Solomon -township and into Dickinson County. The trail evidently was a supply route to Salina and was well used, judging from the depth and width as it wound through Kelley's pasture. It was authorized by the Kansas Legislature and opened Nov.

18, 1869, 11 years after the founding of Salina. It remained in use until June 22,1872. Where it went after it left Saline County is a matter of speculation. It could have joined the Chisholm Trail in Dickinson County, or swung south to Marion and on to Council Grove, which 3 tut 10 Link'. iwtfY, fat, provided Salina and the area with much of its provisions.

Or it may have merged at Marion with another route south out of Salina. The key to moving from Saline County into Dickinson County might be because there was only one creek to cross as opposed to three creeks if it continued straight south," Hughes said. "About all we can do is speculate. Much of the road has been plowed up or otherwise obliterated. But, with imagination, one could see the wagon trains appear out of the morning mist which blanketed the pasture.

And from the trail one can spot the communities of Kipp and Gypsum in Saline County; Miles in Ottawa County; along with Abilene, Solomon, and sometimes Pearl and Navarre, in Dickinson County. Five to six miles north of the Quan- daro route trucks and cars zip by on Interstate 70. The pioneers of yesteryear would be surprised at the progress in transportation. Hays superintendent to state post Hesston man dies in crash NEWTON, Kan. (UPI) A Cessna 150 that flipped in trying to land in a muddy field durng the weekend killed a 19-year-old passenger and injured the pilot, authorities said.

The victim, Michael Karmolinski of rural Hesston, was riding in the single- engine plane piloted by Don Wirth, 22, of Newton. Wirth was able to walk away from the wreckage to contact au- thorities, and was listed in satisfactory condition at Axtell Christian Hospital. Harvey County authorities said Wirth was trying to land the Cessna 150 during some dense fog about 11 p.m. Saturday. Instead, authorities said, Wirth missed the runway of the Newton city- county airport and struck down in a muddy field, where the craft "cart- wheeled." THE FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane "Oh broke my sock.

By CINDY SCHWARTZ Kansas Correspondent TOPEKA (HNS) Gov. John Carlin said he wasn't looking for a "mold" of former Secretary of Human Resources James McCain when he picked Harvey Ludwick to succeed him, but that he was looking for someone to carry on the tradition of working closely with both labor and business. Ludwick, superintendent of Hays schools since 1975, was named by Carlin to fill the cabinet-level position from which McCain retired effectively Jan. 1. Ludwick is expected to begin the job in Topeka on Feb.

1 at a salary of $42,500. Like McCain, who served 25 years as president of Kansas State University prior to his appointment as secretary, Ludwick's background is in education. Ludwick received a bachelor of arts degree from Friends University in 1964 and a doctor of education degree from the University of Wyoming in 1971. Carlin said the fact Ludwick also was an educator in itself didn't influence his appointment, but he did say he had "learned a valuable lesson with Dr. McCain." "He (McCain) was able to be very successful because he was able to be above a conflict between labor and business," Carlin said.

"It didn't have to be somebody from education, but it had to be somebody not closely tied with business or labor," he said of Ludwick's appointment. Although not visibly active in Ellis County Democratic party circles, Ludwick said he was a registered member of the party. Carlin said he had known Ludwick for a "number of years" and first became acquainted with him while serving as a state representative from the 73rd legislative district. Ludwick, from 1973 to 1975, served as superintendent of schools in Ellsworth, which is included in Carlin's former legislative district. Ludwick told reporters he does not foresee a problem in making available records of the state agency which he will head.

The Hays Daily News in 1978 successfully challenged in court the Hays school board's refusal to release board support material to reporters. Ludwick, 37, was born in Wichita. Prior to becoming superintendent of schools at Ellsworth and Hays, he was principal of Laramie, Senior High School from 1970 to 1973. A vice president of the Fort Hays State University chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, Ludwick also serves on the board of directors of the Kansas State High School Activities Association and is a member of the State Council of Superintendents. LAMER'S MARKE1 145 N.

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