Bennett knew that telegraph lines were being built, but had rebuffed attempts to sell him on its merits, as he favored his established methods and the advantage it gave him over his competition.
Thus, in 1846, during the Mexican–American War, the Baltimore Sun and Philadelphia Public Ledger established a sixty-pony express route to New Orleans.
[1] And in 1861, The Oregonian newspaper organized a pony express and stagecoach replay to obtain dispatches and Civil War news days ahead of rival papers in Portland, Oregon, who relied on reports to arrive by steamer from San Francisco.
In February 1849, the Associated Press financed this relay service to carry the latest European news to New York newspapers.
The Pony Express was designated a National Historic Event in 1950, and a federal plaque was erected at its western terminus at Victoria Beach on the Digby Gut.