| Show PONY EXPRESS AND STAGE COACH steam ban bag had bad its ita ani electricity its cou conquests quests the iz enera tion of both has baa wonder lal jai results the former ban baa played and continues to play its if part as aa a motive and nd transporting power the jett latter doe daei more it not only has hai the trans t be refuted or q cesti tied in utah ae elsewhere the olca old bad its if day clay and the new is in now having its ite turn tarn in time in pioneer times bore was waa no oleo eleo trio trie tole telegraph graab were no DO railway in 11 utah the means of trans rana MUNs mutong g nebb was at first brat most difficult it frequently meant weeks and L X DOCTOR HJ FAUST from a photo by johnson domler power of steam with limit liml tle legg amplification and addition but bat it to ur the greatest known merai means of the age ge to in thought information new everything in the trpe shape of intelligence telli gence that man desires ted god it itte is a marvelous improvement ImproTe men over ever the so called old order of talog and bat st it has ha oom to ool not monta of weary work and waiting to deliver mess messaged agea to in remote parts part ot of the ibe united baates or orlo to receive message to in response thereto after some ome the pony espre idea wi was evolved and aad gradually put into execution it was baia a brilliant thought a wonderful lehment and put the people of this far away and forbidding wilder oem dow in much closer with the outside world than ever before news new was wae borne across the continent east and wot west with the high eat speed that fleet rod and hardened was capable of the remit was aston lobing go bo toot too with if giap overland erland oT tage stage coaches Pv passengers engere gera who desired deal redl quicker and better arandt then ban was w afforded by the emigration aralue and C raTana oa ara vans got it an dij horace breeley Greila jy lo in bin memorable trip from the ebe rest baat to 10 the coast for me lie benefit of at persons desiring lo to reflect upon pt conditions la in utah and contrast them with the present preat the today publishes the following highly ldar eating reminiscences of pony siad add stage coach gravel rave dr henry J faust from whom abe th data for able article was wa principally obtained was wai born in Pru sels seea a bingen AO an the rhine sixty four yam ago age while not an actual pioneer be knows know much of pioneer and hardships hard bard he came of sturdy stock and has baa b bad a a more experience in fifty yeam of ble b life than ban many period who wb might live to be a hundred dhea yean of age he be came to the united stated with bin parents who settled to Kieso url within a mouth month atler after their arrival in this ahli country the father sick lek sued and died leaving the family in a brange range Is land ad without a knowledge ot the language and with but mean As ai a young boy hoary henry learned the addler trade laterre later h medicine anil anfe while a lao a nl health broke down and tie becalm oam wont he went to california and under the magic pell of that bat day 90 a aged jim in mining he did not raship a out oat of it 19 or become a millionaire but saved enough to become oo on ot 0 wo the propriety ettre ra ut ui bartholomew circus calob seen after obaed to ex ea jet at lon An angelee golas he be concluded laded to 0 o return to missouri he reto iod val fui more mare utah way may 12 1818 the year alter after he be devastating grave gra hopper war from hat day iiii able bl be has haa wen was a of utah and to in with a nawa man this week he aalde ive never been sorry mrry of it for single anale minute that very tory year says ay h ha 1 I barad the ant brick ever burned la in that WM was at FAll fillmore more la in jaue niter after my arrival in muy may some bows uwe time art after I 1 cast my lot jot with the lapar day baiata and marileu marr leu I 1 in u 1861 I 1 went to carrying mall mail 60 0 o pacific it happened bappe ried la in this wj way tue rue mail earlier cartler before me ga got into truble with the iha India LudIS oB DIL his hie route was waa via toe the muddy through southern out bera utah uch uc h at Fj fillmore Ilmore we nw learned thai khe indiana indian were going to scalp him and so go another driver was put en ed and I 1 was selected BB as the victim I 1 had two passengers with me and on reaching the muddy we found about two hundred indiana drawn up op in battle array with their war paint oo co one of my passengers was kaaa a scotchman the only countryman of bobby burns I 1 ever saw who wasa waa a coward when be aw the red skins bine and heard beard them whoop he be was nearly soared reared to death and abood like an ore jigging machine the other chap was waa a scientific german a regu lar bu ba geating dutchman who chased insects insect clear abrou the desert to call foraja I 1 knew some of the indiana indian and aad some ome of them know knew me they were greatly disappointed appointed ula when the driver whose scalp they were after did not appear on nealene ne acene sod and they were not mot slow alow to make their wager anger manifest mani feaT but I 1 put on a bold face unhitched my males for grass gran and said inn to the chief which means meana heard them 90 this chief was known as aa captain jackson and was wag a shot of fellow he made a jong talk while we were eating our dinner which we dian didn 19 rellah relish very much for to tell the truth we all felts felt a little shaky though myself and the other Duto dutchman timan daia 4 have bem em as a bad no aft the scotchman captain was waa particularly anxious to make us ua believe he be was wae a big man and kept referring to it in his barra ogue by saying this te in my water my wood and my grate grata the tact fact was the water fit to drink the wood was only sage brush bruah sod and the grass was so ao abort it could only be pulled palled up by tweezers when he be got all through I 1 asked what you may ay captain jackson this thia made hini him very mad and he simply aim ply said Nuth lb and stalked away well I 1 made the trip rip in anglety and landed my in california I 1 drove the mall mail over that route until june 1868 1858 on july ch of that thai year bolivar roberta started imm salt lake with the first mall mail to california over the grouse creek route I 1 followed on july with men sod and animal and the StAt IODA I 1 rt ri bained out cut on the line all summer and in november received orders ordera to remove all the stations ata tlona and bring in all the took stock bead and place them oo on she he route to the be south and west we oi 01 the lake alter after that I 1 built lour four ata tlona tiong one at pleasant valley near the atal nevada lita 11 ie one at deep greek creek one jim in rush buah valley and one at point look out I 1 was waa living at deep creek with my wile wife when we were given ft a ini fui lough to come to salt lake anu enjoy ft a period of rest reat lor for we bud bad experienced ft a pretty rough time of it IL ua 1 I had been here but three or ft fi ur days day w when hen I 1 was wao called to the he front again the summons oame came while I 1 was dancing with my wife at a grand bell ball given at the he social hall ball the message was waa from major egan find and was for me to go to the be boyter and buy horses for the he pony express I 1 gutted immediately bought the horses and met major egan at camp floyd there we divided end and I 1 he stocked the part of the route between salt bait lake and the desert while I 1 stocked blocked the stations ata tlona from the desert to rober proberb a creek nevada I 1 stayed at this place until the pony oame came in from the west when I 1 continued the journey to salt bait lake to ruby buby where josh joan perkins relieved MO me and CAMS came on OD as far an shell creek where james jame gentry mounted a fresh freeh pony and rods rode 0 o deep creek where lot let huntington was waiting to convey the express to simpson springs springe prom from this station john fisher was the carrier to rush bueb valley or floyd I 1 don dont donit it remember which major egan made the rlue that completed the route from camp floyd to salt lake the men named together with myself composed the first coterie of riders over the country I 1 have bave described after that trip the regular riders fell into their places and performed their work 1 I doctor tell we me what you can of the org organization animation of the abe pony express said aid the be NEWS DEWS man you doubt doubtless lees know as an much about it at this day as any mou man 12 more ilmore than any man living was wae the prompt rejoinder followed by the untold iniz of ef a story of intense interest and of sufficient length to nil fill a 11 volume of itself but for the purpose of this thie article the he following narrative by the doctor must suffice the pony express was put in V I 1 EXPRESS RIDER operation in 1860 the project was wae conceived and put gut into execution by william H russell Bu isell of the firus firm of russell waddell majors the government freighters and the biggest concern of the kind that bat ever existed at times it 16 toad bad no lose then than train rains at work russell was wag in dole close touch with senator guinn sod and came to salt bait lake to with jmes bromley late of echo to whom were more than any other manis due the credit or of working out the do de talla tails of the pony express antei prise it Is was bromley who fig ared out we be time sod and computed i sue be number of men and horses that were necessary nao eary and what would be required of them to make the under taking a success the prime purpose war wars of course to transmit tran mit nowa press dispa tobes aaro the continent and on en route as speedily pee dlly as aa possible and all considered the accod ment was one of abe marvels of the time the pony express route had its ita beginning at st joe MiMo Mimeo url la in the east and it ended in the west where the pacific ocean proVeD prevented tod its ito further extension had been made with the be railroads to carry the dispatches dlapa tohei irom from now new york g ton aud and other eastern to st bt joe where they were taken from the iron horae bores and transferred to the real one to the abe one that wax was mans faithful friend briend end servant ervant thousands of years year before the more rapid and powerful one was ever dreamed of when the train arrived at st joe it would be to find one oie of abose POMONA saddled bl bridled idled mounted and ready to make the first lap lo in the onil cental relay not a moment was lost the instant the she precious pouches that wre were w re to be borne away with the speed peed of the wind could be thrown on the donys back he be would be started off first of all he be would be taken across the missouri on a terry ferry boat the second ho abe western bank was reached the rider would put spurs to hla his stood and be oft off the excitement enthusiasm and cheers on some of these occasions occa aion were wonderful the bystanders and pak would rush ruah like people to where the poor pony kony was pull the hair bair irom from his hie tell tail and dis als tribute it as souvenirs among the ort arwa wa the limit tot for any one pony to car ry in addition to the rider saddle and niao naso beers was sixteen pounds the or of a sort of leather blanket with holes out in for the horn born ani tree of the saddle to come through when thrown ever attached to the machease mac beers heare were four leather pouches or pockets tor for the dispatches two on either side bide one being before and the other the riders leg in each case the aries mes sages were written on the lightest and thinnest paper and healed in silk wrappers wrapper and then t v looked securely in the macheers pou ones coes all this thia precaution being taken on account of the heavy beavy rains that tell fell and the rivers riven and creeks that had bad to be lorded forded the packages were absolutely waterproof water proof three of these pouches were through affairs and the drees brass looks jocks that hold held them anat were only opened at each end of liao route the fourth one was a sort of accommodation or way pouch for which each keeper bad a key this pocket also contained the way bill or ti time me card on which the station keeper was required to write the exact time of the abe arrival and departure of the rider each bluer would cover irom from lorty forty to seventy miles aed in that distance would use from two to four were always pressed to their lull full power these animals were mainly utah and california bred and a 0 d noted doted lor for their endurance and general sona gena but under all the th they might have been worse they were purchased lor jor their mettle and get there qualities bothof both of which they possessed in high degree GIA A great deal has been said doctor regarding ag the ho fabulous salaries Bal arles said to have been paid the daring riders of these ponies on account of the hard ships hip they bay were compelled to endure ana the dangers they had bad to run ran to te keep from being killed by the indiana what do you kaow of ihl TI soB simply imply that it to is all moona bine talk replied the be doctor they are like the he wild romantic tales told anti and written about scores of the riders be anig the tact fact id that bat one and only me pony express rider was ever killed un n route by indians in am ago bush he was shot off his horse on the platte poor chap his bis scalped scalded body was picked a up p and burled buried near to where he gave up his life the pony was found three or tour four days afterwards graz gr axing irig along the river bottoms still saddled and bridled sod and with all dispatcher undisturbed they were transferred to another horse hone and ana seat on to their destination it to la a fact act that a bood good many riders and station men were killed at dif different forent times at abe ata tlona but buthot not while traveling I 1 it was a strange and notable truth ruth that the I indiana D often stood blood by and looked with wonder upon the during daring riders ana almost flying horse boraas there was wae a mystery about it so they olans quite understand and the be indian fail all of us fear as aa he always la Is bad so BO desire to solve it again every front lerman known know the dread an ot at destroying anything in the shape of writing I 1 proved this once to toe the extent ol 01 saving my own life and I 1 know oi 01 numerous other such incidents it was this superstitious something that protected prote eted the brave mail carriers camera from the he bullets bullet and arrow arroba of scalp bunting blood thirsty indians Ind lanB then again the boys boy were well armed and could take pretty good care of stiem wives elvea time was seldom lost in their traveling station keepers and fresh riders were always oo on the look out tor for them in the daytime they could be seen been at a considerable distance and in the might bight a low jew well wel I 1 known yells yella would bring every everything ng into readiness tor for them and tor for the of we be dispatches on their way with we least possible pus sible low ion of ef time while one tier of riders rider was waa crossing tag continent from missouri to california another was crossing from california all to missouri Miu oarl As a financial enterprise the pony espieu was waa a failure and a big out on that we charges tot for transmitting news newa were very higbee ing so aa much as 85 6 for fair halt ao an ounce the low lose to the exceeded but ai a news new land informs ini orma tion ion medium it was waa the blest blit gaal kind of a success and will loaft day be given a prominent and deserving place on the pages of history it baa never been beaten except by elec electricity ity and abeam op fol resident liin Lincol colBa ns message menage was waa carried across 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