SALT LAKE TO ORIGINAL MAIL ROUTE FROM THIS CITY WEST I 1 capt W 1 risher fisher describes the first mall mail route eoute to Plit carville the pony express aud and stage editor Trl tribune bune it nay may be ing to your many readers reactors to know something about the old oil original trial mall route from salt lake city to bilang toun or placerville erville ns an ll it was afterward named I 1 can only go back to tile tho old cold maj george Chor chorpenning perin I 1 monthly malla mall m ul a pack mall mail carried oil hii the back of 0 routes tile the route wax isas from rom salt lake cl city ty north through maud valley boc bearing cring went act via goosie goose crock creek in cassia county ida on through thousand springs valley and striking th the humboldt Huni bolcH river near gravelly ford station station about nine trifles mils above th river 1 was I famous for its speckled trout and very cry large mosquitoes mosquito I 1 was in it tho the employ ut of the mail company from april HJ until ill alie and pony ony express spurted in ili april 1860 and was quartered at 0 ford ti tation during the iho sur hummer niner ot of 1859 while there I 1 had id the honor hono r of 0 cooking supper for or that thai great old journ journalist allsto horace gresley and I 1 coln can arisuke you the tha old gentleman en enjoyed the fresh trout caught out ot of tile the humboldt river the th route continued lon doin the humboldt river past pant mosquito rend mend and sink kink of 0 lium boldt over the trucker truckee desert past the sink of carson aaraon and up tho the carson river to carson city arid and genoa and then over the sierra nevada mountains to in flaw nine in under the direction 0 of f maj alai howard lauri the route was changed end and went west weft from kilt fait luke lake via camp floyd rush ruah valley iolet lookout springs dagn dugnay ay station Lat lon fish finn springs willow springs spring pleasant valley afterward the route changed vis aln deep creek arid and loft left pleasant valley out antelope springs schell creek egan canyon butte but BUL elan ruby so alley licy huntingdon creek railroad canyon pine alley mccandis la creek and intercepted the old road at gravel gravelly F fiord but in tits tho fall of 0 IMS the route was changed again from rom ruby valley going vla via diamond mountain roberts creck pry dry creek strop simp sonn park noose river arid and on west went through now py s over a dry still and barren jr it country until it ft again struck tho the carson rier vicar icar bort churchill and then continued on tin thill old route axalla I 1 io 10 not think it lian had been changed for or a wagon louie in ill april 1859 maj honard egan who ulio wo wax tho the supe rin ot of the brouto anti bete let rne me plate he mas CL a thorough pioneer in every sense ot of the e oril ord a a true tnie representative of 0 elie great west ft chit and one of natures grent great lievert el ed nobl meu k tit arted a party parly tien test to 10 build a magon road frocia to the 11 humboldt Hum bollt river ns as a weekly meekly title line was tapin th n in I 1 wax ka of that party who helped make that wag ju road through I 1 to a the humboldt t river A weekly stage vias via ai s run rui o over pr that boutu until tile hie borland Oi erland dally stages were more put on howard homard K R egan son bon of maj howard klan egan drove the first state that went ment over the road from salt laka lak l ak city to rush hush valley hl lite rather father on oil the he boot boat with him nil all the way taking in tho country an and d watching everything with ith a mew few at 0 making cutoffs cut offs olta and other improve ments on march 17 1890 maj it bean and my brother john fisher now residing at bountiful utah itah and william kennedy ili dy iI from salt lake city M ith it 0 band of 0 horses leonies to stock flock the iho road for the pony express serl geralee fee an aa far ar na as D deep creek arrangements had also been mado made to the route wet ivest so as to be ready for the express which was waa expected to about the ot of april the express got through flom the wt ast st arching alrh ing in salt lake a bev ew minutes utes before midnight apt abill it 3 the pony express wits was card carried oil weekly eek one trip each way may from the time it stalled until about july lath of the same year when ahen it mas as cha changed aged to it a ie weekly ekly each way and on an increase of I 1 ildara rs put on oil the first regular riders from salt balce city wet west were as fol follows between salt rait lake city and rush valley 1 it 11 ngan egan rush valley alley and dugway mountain john lahr lL hr dugay and willow springs latin willow springs and antelope pilar pil nr Will william fain lynch antelope Sp and antelope canyon Lufa yetto kill lican canyon and ruby valley nv F P FL flior her the wr writer iler ruby valley and I 1 roberts cack james jamea carlo IRo roberts robe botts its creek an and dry creek john I dry creek and reese river ia sl I 1 lime hae forgotten foi foa gotten just n want hat routes the I 1 other liova rode rod anest KI Art afterward erward sam ilits hall of it wellei ilac roll itah william den ala a boy called ailed WhIp whipple tle 1 I have forgotten ills hn name lilliarn WIlli arn alloy john I 1 Doil dabson ond and sever beveral A anthis huau biarnes I 1 hao forgotten n madu viro up tile lie rrt list of tile riders rider th tho fittim king being placed UL 0 bell ahrn worley to tide from salt lake icicy city east I 1 I 1 indi inde the express until after ft the L t tele I 1 ig raph graph tin ahne waa no built slid and tile tho overland orin achilly dally stages put 1 I on oil then I 1 vaa s em plod os or niro vence slid and run ruil arc from in salt 1 iok city to schell creek anti and return uniel I 1 quit milking for the company and ani went to freighting with milli rny my on oin outlet badwi bet veon n sill salt lak laho city and cal cai aon cit nov nev I 1 will hein hi nite lite stage rs und cr tc had 11 b aill lim flow of 0 it for it a a after t r tho ait tally dally stager stiff ted om n ing to lack or tot bi idries on oil ilia hie various barou and streams we lind had to I 1 have packed full ra raffi ica of if 1131 wr n moll of it 11 through the iloh 4 glim up to my lily nock neck in water many a t nip a IP 11 when hott our teula leaff would be it atuck hung up LIT as we me called it W V 1 11