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The St. George Hotel stood on this corner with its main entrance on Fourth Street. On March 19, 1860, the Sacramento Union carried an advertisement placed there by William W. Finney seeking ten or a dozen men familiar with the management of horses to serve as hostlers or riders on the Overland Express Route via Salt Lake City at wages of $50 per month and found. This was the only advertisement ever run for Pony Express riders. On March 20, the Sacramento Union reported that about two hundred men had responded to Finney’s advertisement for post riders on the Overland Express and that the requisite number had been engaged.
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