President Lincoln's inaugural address was started from the Missouri river, March 4, 1861, and in just seven days and seventeen hours it was delivered at Sacramento. It then became a regular schedule of eight days to travel the two thousand miles, or two hundred and fifty miles each twentv-four hours.

On April 3, 1860, the first start of the Pony Express was made, and on the eleventh there was a crowd waiting at each end that broke into wild cheers as the rider hove in sight.

The first rider from Julesburg west, was Jim Moore, and he rode to Scottsbluff station, which is the old soddy later used as a ranch by Mark M. Coad.

Jim Moore made one of the most famous rides in the history of the Pony Express, on

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June eighth, of 1860, when he rode from Midwhy to Julesburg and return, a distance of two hundred and forty miles, in fourteen hours and forty-six minutes. He stopped only seven minutes for lunch.

Colonel W. F. Cody rode the Pony Express, and he was first hired by Jules Reni and put in '"Bill Trotter's division." He was the youngest rider on the entire two thousand miles of the road. He quit the prairie and went to the mountains in the summer, and met Joe Slade at Horseshoe station, where he offered his services, but Joe Slade said he was too young. Cody then gave him a letter from Trotter, and he was immediately employed. Slade always told Cody when he started on a trip to "lookout for your scalp."