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State, Alexander Barclay established a trading post and fort at the Confluence of the Sapello and Mora rivers in northern New Mexico. The Santa Fe Trail ran past the post. It would eventually become part of the later constructed Fort Union, one of the largest military alpos in the southwest. Also on the stay in 1855, this day marks the end of the Walla Walla Conference. Two treaties were signed. The council had been attended by Oregon's superintendent of Indian Affairs Joel Palmer in Washington State Indian Affairs Superintendent, Isaac Stevens. The Nespias and caves tribes signed the treaties which has satisfactory to the whites. Another event that happened on the stay in 1859, due to a lack of protection by government troops, Texas Indian agent Major Robert S. Neighbors.