(Reprint from Texas Almanac, 1859)
(Published in Old Spanish Trail Magazine, December, 1920)
TEXAS ADVERTISEMENTS
The San Antonio and San Die^o Mail Line,
npHIS LINE which has been in successful operation since July', 1S37, is ticketing jL PASSENGERS through to San Diego, and also to all intermediate stations. Passengers and Express matter forwarded in NEW COACHES drawn In six mules over the entire length of our Line, excepting the Colorado Desert ot ' -miles, which we cross on mule back Passengers gu.umntkbd in their ticket* nde in Coaches, excepting the 100 miles, above stated
PASSENGERS TICKETED TO AND FR01I SAN ANTONIO AND
Fort Clark, Fort Hudson, Fort Lancaster Fort Davis,
Fort Bliss,
El Paso,
Fort Fillmore. La Mesilla.
Tucson. Arizona, Fort Yuma, San Diego
The Coaches of our Line leave semi-monthly from each end, ou the 9th and 2tth of each month, nt C o’clock, AM	v
An armed escort travels through the Indian country with each maittraiu, for the protection of the mails and passengers Passeugers are provided with provisions during the trip except where the Coach stops at Public Houses aloug the Line, at which each Passenger will pay for his own meal
Each Passenger is allowed thirtv pounds of personal baggage, cxclusfre of blankets and arms
Passeugers coming to San Antonio can take the line of mail steamers fronijNew Orleans twice a week to Iudianola, from the latter place there is a daily hue of four horse mail coaches direct to this place On the Pacific side the California Steam Navigation Company are running a first class steamer, semi-monthly, to aud from San Francisco and San Diego
FIRE ON TII1S LINE AS FOLLOWS, INCLMISC RATIONS
San A’ntouio to San Diego, $200	Sau Automo to El Paso, $100
•*	“	Tucson, IfiO	Intermediate stations 15c per mile
Extra baggage, when earned, 40 cents per pound lo El P,aso. and $1 per pound to San Diego.
Passengers cay obtijm nil necessary outfits in San Antonio.
For further'jntfaraiation, and for the purchase of tickets, apply at the office of the-GompAniin this oity, or address I. C WOODS, Superintendent of line, carfc of American bfoal Company. 50 Exchange Place, New York
a. H. GXDDINGrS HL E. DOYLE,
Proprietors.