White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16

run in a nanner to leave Virginia
City off its route entirely.
What this newspaper cannot I'M
derstand is the psychology of the
average mind of contemporaries or
others that will stand for such a
thing. To date only two news
papers in Nevada besides the News
have devoted as much as n
line of original matter to give men
ton to the fact that the race a
been routed oyer territory that
saw any pony express riders in the
old days, at the same time it having
been promised on the start by its
projectors that the old route would
be the one following, and the other
papers are the fearless and outspok'
en- Carson City Appeal and Fallon
Standard. A rider went into
| Carson, bursting into town from a
strange direction after having done
his bit to adye rtise that haven of
greater present importance to the
east than the old Comstock.-Reno-
and after PLAYING to a small crowd
went out on the real pony express
trail for the first time since Salt
Lake was passed.
The minute that the pony express
replica" forsook the truth and be-
came a lie it lost pep and public in
terest. Not that anybody or even
a majority heard about it, but there
is something about a lie which makes
it impossible for it to be palmed off
rs the truth and make it a go in the
same sense that it should have gone
had the truth been employed and
stuck to from the beginning.
1t was related in the dispatches
about ten days since that n of the
riders stopped his horse at the tomb
of Buffalo Bill, thus honoring the
best known of the old pony express
riders. But you saw nothing about
the fact that the whole outfit, by its
duplicity and playing to the Salt
Lake highway fakirs, had insulted
the memory of the rider today lying
buried in Ruby valley, Nevada, with
a hole through his body made by an
Indian bullet. You saw nothing
about the memories of that group OF
pioneers shot by Indians through a
hole in a rock, who are lying IN a
little plot of graves in Overland an
yon, east of Gold Hill, Utah, being
of the two men who fell with Indian
bullets in defending the pony ex-
press at Burnt station, within four
miles of the same spot: of the SOL
der who was shot to pieces at tha
Deep Creek summit and died at For:
Ruby, o of Ira Abbott, who was
several times wounded in the same
battle and lies in a grave in the Ely
cemetery. No, rothing is heard of
these thugs. All there Is to the
pony express replica is Salt Lake and
Reno, one, while actually on the
route, to be the villain to change
il from there for the purpose of ad-
vertising a fake highway, and the
other that never at n time to be
on the old route and only Of promi-
hence through the discredit that its
courts have brought onto the state.
The management of this so-called
race may be able to explain to it's
own satisfaction in what n this
fake honors the memory of Mark
Twain, leaving out not only Virginia
City as it does, but the very route
over which he came to Carson by
stage, but it is beyond the depth o.
this publication to reconcile it.
When Mark Twain came to the
state he travelled by way of FISH
Springs, Callao, Deep Creek, Schell-
bourne, Egan canyon, Fort Ruby,
Austin and Fort Churchill, which is
the identical way the old pony ex-
press came and at about the same
time to a year. Horace Greeley and
all other stage passengers of that
day came the same way, and the old
house in which Greeley slept at CAL
lao stands there yet.
Ely was not on the old pony ex-
press trail and does not claim to be.
The nearest it came to II is city was
when it passed through Schellbourne,
forty-two miles from here, and from
there the distance became gradually
greater until it passed out of this
valley at Egan canyon, forty-six
miles from here.
1t is a mere matter of truth YER
sus falsity. The falsehood thinks it
has won It's winning has profted it
nothing and hereafter, as the truth
becomes better known, will profit 1t
less.
AS the militant little Carson paper
says, "The so-called pony express
race is a Joke" 1t should not be
called the pony express. The cor
rect name for it is the phony en-
press.