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The line was 1,475 miles long and there were very few stations along the trail
where spare stages could be stored. John Butterfield's Overland Mail Company had
100 stages located along the 2,700-mile trail. He had 175 stations about fifteen miles
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apart. A spare stage was distributed at a station approximately every thirty miles.
Ads for Butterfield's Overland Mail Company and the San Antonio and San Diego Mail
Line Weekly Arizonian, Tubac, Arizona, from March to September 1859.
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