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Show Se ea Te ee 4-§--4~3=4= oe 8-8 ee he SAP ee Se BF - OS Mew ee ne BD 2 ie oe ee oe ve ha -8 ee FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN * LEADING HISTORY * —— ee neal eae 2 cee e* * 140 ee When the stage line was first established, stages were run once a month ; later the service was increased to once a week, then to three times a week, and, after the travel demanded it, daily stages were run. The fare from the Missouri river to Santa Fé was two hundred and fifty dollars, the baggage being limited, at first to forty pounds. Anything in excess of that amount was paid for extra at the rate of fifty cents per pound. After the Civil War, and during the war for that matter, a coachload from Kansas City to Santa Fé consisted of a driver, k messenger, and ten passengers with an allowance of one hundred and ten pounds of baggage to each passenger. This was the limit. All excess In baggage was then charged for at the rate of one dollar a pound. The fare from Kansas City to Santa Fé was two hundred dollars. It took thirteen days and six hours of constan t traveling br ats - a Relays of horses so that changes were of animals kept at stations along were made at intervals of - een to twenty-five miles, with the exception of one portion of pan one hundred and ten miles across the ‘*desert’’ from station to Fort Dodge. It was never possible to maintain a oe on this portion of the road owing to the lack of water and pan of the depredations of the Indians who destroyed any struction on this sectio n of the plains. This stretch was known eed . Ce a « | of e ee ot ie oe Beh Boe ee ee ee ee ae ee 4 . P . Cee ee ae ee Oe oe ee oe er oe oe oe Oe ee ci [oom den lee | Pie oe oe oe | te ee re * a~ —'] > Sle ee a Ss oe a eaea se a 4@ a a ee . [2 ree aa a et ee eee Otke ee etae we ee Pa oe oe oe oe ho ee oe De ee r * 7 en ee ee ee ee haat eal eek ee Le as ‘The Long Route.’’ It was made with one relay of four horses, and a camp of one night upon the plains so that the animals might receive a needed rest. the rear “boot”? of the ae portion of the journe _ feed and provisions were carried in cme Wiler ates Boye oe oe oe the Passengers suffered from thirst as did also the horses Zarah oo the hot summer months. was a little east ae always in cha a ee drawn by mul The coach was : f © present city of Great Bend. rge of a conductor or messenger. He had the same reach, prop erty, and passengers as the captain Solomon’ Chaves Houke teams were Substituted. Such men as David Waldo, and otherseo - a and Solomon Sublette, Josiah Gregg, St. Vrain, ike character were early adventurers, and as the gov- 0 enter and trade with the people, they venie Samuel C. Owens, it is a as a e€ came to Missouri from Kentucky Jackson county. coke reer He was the first clerk of the circuit court of n Aull, his business partner, had owned a store in Lexington, Mo. Owe expedition in Mexico. fmd James Aull lost their lives while with Doniphan’s Governors i. Dav: . of New Mexico under the Act of March 1 3, 1851 David Merriwether. 9 Abraham Rencher. 3. Henry Connelly. B. Mitchell. 5. William Carr Lane. 6. William A. Pile. 7. 9. Lewis Wallace B. Axtell. 8. Samuel Giddings. > Y 4. Robert Marsh |