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Show • • • 189 ·~, May 29 PONY EXPRESS AND STAGE COACH . How News Was Transmitted, Mail carried and Passengers Transported in Early Day Utah Record Breaking Time in Carrying President Lincoln's Message Transmitted Across the Continent in Less than Ten Days--Greeley's Famous Ride and Origin of the Expression, "Keep Your Seat , Horace , We 'll Get You There on Time"--How the Pony Express Came to be Organized and Something About the, Purpose It Served--Experience by Dr. Faust and Many Other Veterans of ·' the Veter~ns of the Early Sixties in Utah Steam has had its triumphs and electricity its conquests . The generation of both has accomplished wonderful results. The former has played and continues to play its part as a motive and transporting power . The lat ·~er does more . It not only has the transporting' power of steam, with limitless arhplication and addition, but it is the greatest known means of the a ge in transmitting thought, information, news--everything in t he shape of intelligence that man desire s transmitted. It is a ma rvelous improvement over the so-called :~ old order of things" and tha t it has "come to stay" will no t be refuted or questioned . In Utah, a.s elsewhere, the "old" had i t s day and the ·"new" is now having its turn in time. l In Pioneer times there was no electric telegra ph--there were no railway trains, in Utah. The means of transmitting news was at first most diffio.ul t . It frequently meant weeks and months of weary work and wa iting to deliver messages in r emote parts of the United States or to receive messages in · response t hereto. After some · years t he Pony Express i dea was evolved and gradually put into execution . It was a ~illi an t thought, ·13 wonderful aocompl)..shm.ent and put the people of this far a wa y and forbidding wilderness in much closer communica tion with the outsi de wor ld than ever before. News was borne across t he continent--east and west- -·wt ,th the highest speed tha t fleet and hardened horseflesh was capable of. The result was astonishing. So, too, with the cotemporaneous overland stage |
