This condensed statement shows the approximate deficit which the business incurred: 

To equip the line .....................................$100,000

Maintenance at $30,000 per month (for sixteen months). $480,000

War with the Utes and allied tribes ................... $75,000

Sundry items ...........................................$45,000

_________

Total ................................................ $700,000

The receipts are said to have been about $500,000 leaving a debit balance of $200,000.  That the Company changed hands in 1861 is not surprising.

While the Pony Express failed in a financial way; it had served the country faithfully and well.  It had aided an imperiled Government, helped to tranquilize and retain to the Union a giant commonwealth, and it had shown the practicability of building a transcontinental railroad, and keeping it open for traffic regardless of winter snows.  All this Pony Express did and more.  It marked the supreme triumph of American spirit, of God-fearing, man-defying American pluck and determination — qualities which have always characterized the winning of the West.

[41] Senate Documents.

The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Story of the Pony Express by Glenn D. Bradley ******This file should be named ponye10.txt or ponye10.zip******

Corrected editions of our etexts get a new number, ponye11.txt versions based on separate sources get new letter, ponye10a.txt

This etext was produced by David A. Schwan.

***

More information about this book is at the top of this file.

We are now trying to release all our eBooks one year in advance of the official release dates, leaving time for better editing.  Please be encouraged to tell us about any error or corrections, even years after the official publication date.

Please note neither this listing nor its contents are final til midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement.  The official release date of all Project Gutenberg eBooks is at Midnight, Central Time, of the last day of the stated month.  A preliminary version may often be posted for suggestion, comment and editing by those who wish to do so.

Most people start at our Web sites at:  http://gutenberg.net or http://promo.net/pg

These Web sites include award-winning information about Project Gutenberg, including how to donate, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to our email newsletter (free!).

Those of you who want to download any eBook before announcement can get to them as follows, and just download by date.  This is also a good way to get them instantly upon announcement, as the indexes our cataloguers produce obviously take a while after an announcement goes out in the Project Gutenberg Newsletter.

http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/eBook03 or ftp://ftp.ibi
blio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/eBook03