Show A MEMORABLE RACE referring to some old time races the breeder and Sp sportsman republishes the i following of a roice race that stands unparalleled in this country or perhaps any other taken from an old western paper it Is has haa passed from tine the memory of many and will be vows news to the abe public at large in 1859 st joseph mo was wag the terminus of railroad communication beyond the stage the saddle horse the ox team and prairie schooner were the means of transportation thence to the rookies bookies and the pacific slope in the winter of 1859 60 there here was a wall street lobbyist lobby at washington trying to get for carrying the mall mail overland tor for one year between new york fork and san francisco the proposition was extremely cheeky and william H Rus russell bell backed by secretary of war floyd jaloyd resolved to give the lobby a cold shower bath he there tore fore offered to bet that he could put on a mall mail from sacramento cal to st joseph mo that could make the die distance tance 1950 miles in ten days the bet was taken and april fixed upon as the day for starting mr russell called upon his partner and general manager of business upon the plains A B miller and asked him it if he could perform the teat bilier replied ye airs air I 1 will do it and by a pony express ex preB 0 to accomplish this thia miller purchased of the fleetest horses he be could find I 1 in the west and employed men eighty of these men were to be post poet riders these be selected with reference to their light weight and known courage it was waa very essential that horses be loaded as I 1 light ight as aa possible therefore the lighter the mau man the bet ter it was wag necessary that thai some borne portions of the route route should be made at the rate of twenty miles milea an hour the horses were estatio stationed ned from ten to twenty mis apart and each rider would be required t to ride sixty miles por for the change of animae and the shifting of the mails two minutes were allowed where there were no stage stations at proper distances tents sufficient to accommodate one man and two horses would be provided indians indiana would sometimes give div e chase but their cayuse cay use ponies made but sorry show in their stern chase after Mill millers erts thoroughbreds many of which could make a single mile irk in all arrangements being completed a signal gun on the steamer sacramento proclaimed the meridian of the of april 1869 the hour for starting when border ruffian mr miller millers Is private saddle horse with billy baker in the saddle bounded away toward the fc co othilla in the sierra nevada and made his ride of twenty miles in forty nine minutes the snows were deep in the moun bains and one rider was lost for sev bev oral eral hours in a snowstorm and after the salt lake valley was reached additional dit ional speed became necessary to reach st joseph on time from there all went well until the platte was to be crossed at Ju lesburg the river was up and running rapidly but into the flood the rider plunged his horse only however to mire and drown in the the courier succeeded in reaching the shore chore with the mail bag in hand and traveled ten miles on foot to reach the next relay johnny pry fry a popular rider of the day was waa to take the fin leb ish he had sixty miles to ride and six boors to do it with when the lat last courier arrived at the sixty mile post poet out from st joseph he be was waa one hour beb behind na time A heavy rain had bad set in anu the road was slippery two bun dred thousand dollars turned upon a single minute fry had bad just three hours and thirty minutes in which to win this was the finish of the longest race for the largest stake ever run in america when the time for his arrival waa nearly up at least people stood upon the river bank with eyes eye turned f toward the woods from which the horse und and rider shortly emerged into the open country in the rear of blip wood one mile from the finish tick I 1 tick tick went thousands of watches matches tt atie time was nearly up but seven minutes remained hark a shout about goes up from the assembled throng DV he comi coleb he comeal th the 0 nob noble little man dalph 11 the daughter of little arthur py darts like an arrow from the bow and makes the run of the last mile in landing on the ferryboat with live five minutes and ten seconds second iii to spar par I 1 |