Beginning on April 3, 1860, Pony Express riders used Major Howard Egan's home station at Deep Creek to exchange horses and riders on a route that also carried the Telegraph and Overland Stage and Mail via a main station at Ibapah. The Transcontinental Telegraph line was completed on October 26, 1861, eliminating the need for pony riders, but Egan's home ranch continued to furnish hay, grain, and meat to outlying mail company relay stations and provided meals and overnight accommodations for stage passengers. The station functioned as a small community with a family residence, drivers' sleeping quarters, an eating house with rest rooms, a hen house, a dairy, stables, a bankhouse, a telegraph office from 1861 to 1883, a sawmill, and a fenced garden, while a blacksmith shop and general store stood nearby. Daily work included milking, cooking, breaking horses, horseshoeing, herding, gardening, planting, plowing, irrigating, and harvesting. Daily mail and stage service to Ibapah ended in 1869 when the transcontinental railroad was completed to the north, and after intermittent mail delivery, a permanent post office was established in Ibapah in 1885, after which mail arrived two or three times weekly.