In March, 1866, Holladay took over the Butterfield line and the following announcement appeared in the newspapers: “NOTICE. “To the Employees of the Overland Dispatch Company. “The Overland Stage Line and the Overland Dispatch Company have become one property under the name of the Holladay Overland Mail & Express Company. “The new Company guarantees payment to the employees of the late Overland Dispatch Company. An agent is now en route from New York to pay them. “David Street, Gen’l Agt., “Holladay Mail & Express Co. “Atchison, Kansas, March 17, 1866.” The business that Butterfield had worked up was continued by the new company, but Butterfield was hopelessly down and out. While in the midst of what appeared to be a prosperous freight business with many tons of ponderous mining machinery in transit across the plains to the mining camps of Colorado, the mining bubble broke, and great difficulty was experienced in collecting freight bills that were accumulating on machinery that was being transported across the plains, so it was unloaded upon the plains and there it was left to rust out. In less than eighteen months from the first organization of the Overland Dispatch, Butterfield was a financial wreck, and the consolidation of his company with the Holladay line was the only action that could be taken to conserve the property which the Butterfield line had acquired. Butterfield subsequently left Atchison and located in Mississippi, where he organized a railroad, which also proved a failure. He left Mississippi for Arkansas and built and operated a horse car line in Hot Springs. He finally got into a quarrel with one of his employees, who struck him with a neck yoke, from the effects of which he died. OTHER ROUTES.