Hanging Rock Trail Traditional Cache
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This is a regular cache, and pretty easy. May be a great place to move Travel bugs.
This cache is located next to a small monument for the Pony Express. The location was the Hanging Rock Trail Station between 1860 and 1861. The monument is located at N 41 02.867 W 111 18.356
This cache is along the frontage road that travels along I80. You can take exit 178 if coming from Wyoming, or the Echo exit #169.
The Pony, as it was called, started in St. Joseph, Missouri. The route traveled through the heartland, the rugged plains of Wyoming, down through Utah and on through Nevada to Sacramento, California. The business was successful for only 18 months however as the Transcontinental Telegraph was installed in 1861 making the Pony obsolete.
About half way down Echo Canyon was the appropriately named Halfway Station. The third contract station in Utah, it was also called Emory, Daniels, or sometimes Hanging Rock. An undated photograph published in Fike and Headley’s 1979 monograph, and labeled as “Government Creek Telegraph Station,” was ascertained by Jabusch and Nardone to actually depict Halfway Station. The photo shows an old log cabin with a covered entry, and a newer structure of sawn lumber.
Fike and Headley tell an unresearched story that, in the early days of the Pony, rustlers in the area would steal the express horses, then later sell them back to the company. When the horses began to be branded with the XP (Express) brand, the rustling ended.
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