People remained up for them all hours of the night, no matter at what station they were expected.

The warmest and most comfortable of meals were always ready for them, for which no charge would be taken on any account.

In Utah, a deputation of Mormons galloped alongside them for forty miles to help them over some points of the road that had been often found difficult.

The season was the finest known for many years.
In short, as an old Californian said as he saw them shooting over the rickety bridge that crossed the Bear River at Corinne: "they had everything in their favor--_luck_ as well as _pluck_!" The rate at which they performed this terrible ride across the Continent and the progress they made each day, some readers may consider worthy of a few more items for the sake of future reference.

Discarding the ordinary overland mail stage as altogether too slow for their purpose, they hired at Julesburg a strong, well built carriage, large enough to hold them all comfortably; but this they had to replace twice before they came to their journey's end.