. The Pacific tourist . y re- schedule ofquired the pony express to make trips in thefollowing time: From St. Joseph to Marvsville, 12 hours. From St. Joseph to Fort Kearny, 34 )iour8. From St. Joi-eph to Laramie, W liours. From St. Joseph to Fort Brldger, lo8 lioiirs. From St. Joseph to Salt Lake, 121 liours. From St. Joseph to Camp Flovd, 128 hours. From St. Josejih to Carson City, 118 hours. From St. Joseph to Placerville, 22G hours. From St. iloseph to Sacramento, 232 liours. From St. Joseph to San Francisco, 240 hours. An express messenger left once a week from eachside with not more than
. The Pacific tourist . y re- schedule ofquired the pony express to make trips in thefollowing time: From St. Joseph to Marvsville, 12 hours. From St. Joseph to Fort Kearny, 34 )iour8. From St. Joi-eph to Laramie, W liours. From St. Joseph to Fort Brldger, lo8 lioiirs. From St. Joseph to Salt Lake, 121 liours. From St. Joseph to Camp Flovd, 128 hours. From St. Josejih to Carson City, 118 hours. From St. Joseph to Placerville, 22G hours. From St. iloseph to Sacramento, 232 liours. From St. Joseph to San Francisco, 240 hours. An express messenger left once a week from eachside with not more than ten pounds of best of riders were chosen from among trap-pers, scouts and plains men, familiar with all thelife of the route, fearless, and capable of greatphysical power, endurance and bravery. Theponies were very swift and strong, a cross be-tween the Anterican horse and Indian pony, andafter each run of sixty miles, waited till the ar-rival of the messenger from the opposite direc- %^,-jijiir roii^iST. 43. OVERLAND IONY EXPRESS PUHSLEU UV IIIOHWAYMEX tion, when each returned. The riders were con stantly ex[)osed to dangers from Indian attacksand pursued by hijjhwaymen; and to compen-sate them for this risk they received tlie larpesalary of !()(> a month each; and the modest firice charged for the conveyance of businessetters was ., gold, per quarter ounce. Atthe time of the departure of tlie first messengerfrom .St. Joseph, a .special train was run over theHannibal and .St. Joseph Railroad to bring thethrough messenger from New York, and a PonyExpress Extra was issued of two pages, by theSt. Joseph Daily Gazette, containing telegraphicnews from all , —p a r 13 o f theworld, with aheavily leadedaccount of thenew enterprise,and sendinggre(!tings to thepress of Califor-nia. The routefrom .St reachiut,the Platte Val-ley, followedjust north of thepresent track ofthe Pacific Rail-road to Lara-mie, then up the ld ponv express stATDySwfot Water
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