Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — DAY OF THE PONY EXPRESS. [ARTICLE]

DAY OF THE PONY EXPRESS.

Great Pride in the «Fut Hall Service” of Fifty Years A(o. Great pride was felt half a century ago In the fact that hy means of a pony express service San Francisco was brought within ten days of the eastern cities. In the Star of April 21, 1860, Is the following confiment upon this achievement, the Washington Star says: “The overland pony express between the western frontier of Missouri and San Francisco, so lately established, Is already an entirely successful enterprise. We have before us letters that left San Francisco on the 4th instant, In the shape of telegraphic dispatches, and were mailed at Carson City on the same day and reached the Washington office on the 18th at 10 a. m., having been placed in the ordinary mall of the country at St. Joseph. Mo., on the 10th instant, or In ten days the general news from California coming by that trip of the pony express was published simultaneously, through the medium of the telegraph, In all the considerable cities of * the Atlantic side. Thus the pony express has brought San Francisco for most within ten days of New York, New Orleans, Washington, Boston, etc. The establishment of the pony express, though apparently a hazardous enterprise, Involving as it did an original outlay of money to transact an entirely new business, was but the natural result of the rapidly Increasing necessities of the commerce between the two slopes. “We have also before us the' first specimen of the silver of Carson valley sent east of the Mississippi, which was received in the shape of a finger ring, by the trip of the pony express referred to above. The silver mines of Carson valley form the last discoveries of American mineral wealth of actually demonstrated Immense value, and are already drawing to the locality a population so large and so full of energy and enterprise as to make a matter of absolute necessity that Congress shall at the present session provide them with some government necessary to their wants and calculated to render their magnificent valley speedily as useful as possible to the rest of the United States.