Mcallen Daily Press

MCALLEN TAKES PART IN PONY EXPRESS RACE

Twenty Texas towns have entered riders in the Pony Express race starting March 1 for San Francisco which will carry one of United States regulation mail pouches.

Stops will be made at each post along the route to take on mail carrying the regulation Pony Express stamp and regular U. S. mail.

The route to be traveled by the riders will be over the Old Overland Trail established in 1849 by Capt. R. B. Marcy, U. S. A., which was the shortest route to the gold fields of California. The Overland route crossed the Red River in Texas at the old Colbert Ferry and led southwest from Gainesville to El Paso, then on to Tucson, Phoenix, Arizona to Los Angeles and up the Pacific coast to San Francisco.

According to rules for the race drawn up by the Nocona chamber of commerce, each rider can have no more than two horses and must finish with the horses he started with. Relays of 25 miles will be made before a change of horses is allowed. The entrant is to furnish his own horses, his trailer or truck for transporting horse when not under saddle. Roving judges will patrol the highway between consecutive riders to insure fairness and no entries will be accepted after February 25.

Carroll Parton, manager of the Nocona chamber of commerce is also director of the race. He announces the following entries: L. R. Lincoln, Palo Alto, Calif.; W. G. Gilchrist, A. W. Bales, Lampasas; J. W. Curry, Iowa Park; M. E. Tipton, Okla.; Buster Brown and F. E. Cooksey, Electra; John Miller, Vernon; George Moore; Harvey Floyd, Bozene; Tedford, Harry Miss Helen Dillard, Larry McClay, Laney Goforth and A. Sam, Jr., Wichita Falls; Bud Wiley, T. J. Sykes, Durango; Miss Willie Smith. Anthony Zmak, San Francisco; J. M. Cross, Paris; Bay Wilson and Taylor Tuck, St. Jo; Jack Speed, Bonita; Franklin Osborne, Clifton; Chris Uselton, Ruth Doyle Martin, Hoben Salmon and Robert David Molsbee, Quanah; R. D. Brown, Rochester; Hope, Giles, J. W. Taylor. Anna; A. H. Farris, Woodville; P. C. Younger and Bill Richards, Sunset; Wayne Burroughs, Amarillo; Earl Holmes, Borger; Underwood, Archer City; A. Dean, Dalhart and Ted Harbin, Marshall, Texarkana and Corsicana.