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[Item recovered from Reese River Reveille, February 16, 1866, p. 2]
STAGES FOR MONTANA
John Allman is here making preparations for leaving for Montana on the 23d
of the month with a train of seven six-horse stages. They are large, eleven-passenger,
thorough brace Concord coaches. He does not know what he will do with them when
he gets them there, but he says he will find a road there somewhere to run them
on, and if he don't he will build one. That is the sort of energy that wins,
and John has always displayed it. He is going to leave Sacramento on the 28d
with his seven wagons, and will pass through your Virginia and land in Montana
in the course of thirty-five days or thereabouts. He will take his passengers
to Helena or Virginia City, just as they please. He proposes to charge $125
and allow 25 pounds of baggage.
[Reprinted in American Literary Realism, Vol. 47, No. 1, Fall 2014, p. 92.]
