President Buchanan's last Presidential message in December, 1860, was carried in eight days.

President Lincoln's inaugural, the following March, took only seven days and seventeen hours for the journey between St.Joseph and Sacramento.
We soon got used to the work.

When it became apparent to the men in charge that the boys could do better than forty-five miles a day the stretches were lengthened.

The pay of the rider was from $100 to $125 a month.

It was announced that the further a man rode the better would be his pay.