Name/Title
Pony Express Ads (2) in San Francisco Herald Newspaper, Photo, April 19, 1860Entry/Object ID
P1996.1P.592Description
Pony Express Ads (2) in San Francisco Herald Newspaper, Photo, April 19, 1860 b/w. Written in the manner of a news account, this column promotes the Pony Express and gives details of its schedule and rates. #592A is advertisement from the St. Joseph eastern terminus. #592B is written from the aspect of San Francisco, the western terminus. (#593-595 are copies of #592) Slight differences in times and rates from that advertised three days earlier. See 96.1P.591.
"San Francisco
April 19,
Expresses
96.1P.592A =
"The CENTRAL OVERLAND CALIFORNIA and PIKE'S PEAK Express Company
This company are now running a tri-weekly line of Express and Passenger Coaches from Leavenworth City and St. Joseph to Denver City. Time, Six Days. ? before the first day of May next, a Daily Line of Coaches will be started from said points, (Sundays excepted).
PONY EXPRESS
On Friday, the 13th of April at 9 o'clock A.M., a Pony Express will leave St. Joseph, the present terminus of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, for San Francisco, and Weekly thereafter, at the same hour, passing through Forts Kearny, Laramie and Bridger, Great Salt Lake City, Camp Floyd, Carson City, the Washoe Silver Mines, Placerville and Sacramento City. Telegrams from all of the Atlantic, Southern and Western States will be received up to the hour of the departure of the Courier from St. Joseph, and will be forwarded from Carson City by the Placerville and St. Joseph Telegraph Company to all points in California and Oregon.
TIME from the ATLANTIC to PACIFIC, EIGHT DAYS--Letter by the Courier will be delivered in San Francisco from St. Joseph in TEN DAYS.
Letter for Oregon, Washington Territory, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Sandwich Islands, Pacific Mexican Ports, China, Japan, and the Amoor River, will be mailed at San Francisco.
Under the authority of the Postmaster General, letters are forwarded by this Company to Denver City.
FAST FREIGHT LINE
On the first day of May, a Fast Freight Line will be established from Leavenworth City and St. Joseph to Denver City, for the transportation of general merchandise. Time, FIFTEEN DAYS.
For full particulars, or for Tickets, and Paid Envelopes Inquire at:
New York Office--J.B. Simpson, Vice President
St. Joseph--Unit Basin, Agent
St. Louis--Samule & Allen, Commission Merchants, 132 N. 3d street, Agents
Chicago--H.J. Spaulding, Agent
Office Leavenworth City, Kansas, March, 1860
Wm. H. Russell, President. John. W. Russell, Secretary
96.1P.592B =
PONY EXPRESS
Eight Days
From San Francisco to New York
"The Pony Express of the Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express Company will leave San Francisco for New York and intermediate points on FRIDAY, the 20th day of April, 1860, and on every FRIDAY thereafter, at four o'clock P.M. Letters will be received until 3½ P.M. each day of departure a the office of the Alta Telegraph Office, Montgomery street; at Sacramento until 12 o'clock the same night, at the Alta Telegraph office, 2d street; Placerville, until 6 A.M., every Saturday, office Placerville and St. Joseph Telegraph Office. Telegraphic Dispatches will be received at Carson City until 7½ o'clock every Saturday.
Schedule time from San Francisco to New York for Telegraphic Dispatches, Eight Days; for Letters, Twelve Days.
Letters will be charged to any point on this side of Salt Lake City, $3 per half ounce, and under, and at that rate according to weight.
To all points beyond Salt Lake City, $5 per half ounce and under, and at that rate according to weight.
All letters must be enclosed in Government Envelopes.
The Pony Express charges on each Telegraphic Dispatch (of any number of words) to be transmitted by Telegraph from St. Joseph will be $2.45, The tariff due the Telegraphic Companies on either end will, of course, be added.
Wm. W. Finney, General Agent"
N.B.--The public will understand that by telegraphing to Carson City, 27½ hours later intelligence can be sent to St. Joseph, Missouri, than by letter from San Francisco. A dispatch to Carson City may be forwarded to St. Joseph, to be sent on from that point by telegraph, or to be there committed to the U.S. Mail as a letter, in which case it will be charged as a letter over the Pony Express route. W.W. Finney, General AgentMade/Created
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