Show PONY EXPRESS MEMORIAL MEMORIAL FUNDS DRIVE SET NEXT WEEK The wide state-wide drive to collect funds for the erection of two memorials to the Pony Express and nd to the p present day postmen will begin next week with ev every every ev- ev ery cry home or person in the state urged to contribute a dollar or more A model of the proposed memorial has been seen seed in parades parades parades par par- ades in this area during the summer including the mammoth mammoth mammoth mam mam- moth parade at the S San a n p pet e t e County Fair Sam F. F Parry of Manti ManU chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of the funds drive for the South Sanpete area and the postmasters in each city and town own have plans to make a to house canvas a school drive and other means of collecting collecting col- col funds These hese funds must I Ibe be DC collected by next week end if possible so that the memorials memorials memorials will be ready for delivery and erection next April the an anniversary anniversary anniversary an- an of the Pony Express With this drive to erect a monument to the Pony Express some interesting facts fact's about the pony express organization come out Some of the more interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting facts about this service L'- L' which lasted only omy a couple oi of yea years s are as follow The founding company was R Russel u s s e 1 Majors and Wadell They started out charging 10 per V oz but the government ordered them to cut this to 5 bringing them to lose about The Pony Express route covered covered covered cov cov- ered 1966 miles from St. St Joseph to San Francisco The average daily mileage was miles making the average trip in about ten days Some trips were made in less t than h a n eight days Each man rode 75 to miles changing horses regularly Bill Cody once once rode 24 hours on the same horse Bob Haslam once rode miles in scheduled ed time when he found change stations burned or riders killed Tom Keetley once rode a record miles in a raising hair-raising 24 hours It took an average of two minutes to change horses at stations Major 1 Howard Egan was Utah's Utah's Utah's U- U tah's most famous Pony Express rider He had a son Richard n n. n Erastus Egan called Rass who also was a rider and his E widow still lives in Salt Lake City Utah furnished a 1 great majority majority majority ma ma- about 90 percent in informed informed informed in- in formed persons state of t the e riders Each rider was required to carry a Bible along with two Continued on last page I Pony Express Memorial Funds Drive Next Week Continued from Page One six-shooters six and also to sign the following pledge I I Ithe do hereby swear before the great living God that during my engagement and amI while I aman aman am aman an employee of the Russell Major MaI Major Ma- Ma I jor and Waddell who were the founding company of the the th Pony Express I HI will under tinder no circumstances circumstances circumstances cir cir- use profane language language language lan lan- guage that I will drink no no o intoxicating intoxicating in intoxicating in- in liquors that I wilt will not quarrel or fight with other employees of the firm and that in ill every respect I will conduct myself honestly be faithful to tomy tomy tomy my duties and so direct all my acts as to 10 win the confidence of my employers so help me God Booklet to be GivenA Given Given- S A handsomely bound page 50 j. j book Riders of the Pony Express Express Ex Ex- press by Kate B. B Carter will willbe willbe willbe be given each person who contributes contributes con con- tri tributes utes one dollar or more to toward toward toward to- to ward building the memorial Th The book ordinarily sells for 50 scents cents a copy and will be a valued addition to every homes home's library South Sanpete has been asked to contribute 1900 toward the project which means that the share for each Ephraim and Manti ManU will be about |