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for carrying passengers wasn’t very inefficient and the reputation of the line suffer-
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ed from the many complaints by passengers.
The line only carried through-mail from its start until January 1, 1859. Passengers
were carried for the entire limit of the contract. When John Butterfield was assigned
the Overland Mail Company Contract No. 12,578, to start September 15, 1858,
there was a duplication of service on 900 miles of the Southern Overland Trail.
Because of this duplication, the San Antonio and San Diego Mail Line contract was
modified. The line’s mail service could continue from San Antonio to El Paso,
Texas, and from Fort Yuma to San Diego, California.
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The 900-mile segment on the Southern Overland Trail where the San Antonio and San
Diego Mail Line overlapped their service with John Butterfield's Overland Mail Company.
Map: ©2017 Gerald T. Ahnert.
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