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New Pass Station
Historic Marker
Location
of sign - U.S. Highway 50, approximately 25 miles west of
Austin, Nevada.
Photo
taken October 2008
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
New Pass Station
The rocks composing the
walls of this stage station and freighter stop were in neat array
and roofed with bundles of willow twigs in
July of 1861, when
stagecoach king John Butterfield's Overland Mail & Stage Company
began traversing this Central or Simpson
Route between Salt Lake
City and Genoa, Nevada.
The spring on the hill
was inadequate for both humans and horses. However, Division
Superintendent Thomas Plain's support ranch,
one mile to the west,
kept this important team- watering or replacement stop operating.
Completion of the first
transcontinental railroad spelled the eventual demise of the
Overland Stage line. Butterfield sold out to Wells, Fargo and
Company in 1866. Wells, Fargo suspended all operations on the
Central Route in February 1869. The company continued to
operate their diverted
equipment on other lines until the early 1870's.
Nevada Historical Marker
No. 135
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