(Mail Routes) "Overland Via Placerville and Salt Lake". Manuscript endorsement at left of 1853-55 10¢ Nesbitt entire to Missouri and postmarked "Georgetown, Cal., Nov 31, 1860" cds, Very Fine. Estimate  $500 - 750. This cover was carried on the stages of the Central Overland California & Pike's Peak Express Company (COC&PPE) during the brief period that the COC&PPE held both of the mail contracts on the Central Overland Route. The Hockaday contract between Saint Joseph and Salt Lake City was acquired by Jones & Russell, the COC&PPE's predecessor company, in 1859. The Chorpenning contract between Placerville and Salt Lake City was transferred to the COC&PPE on May 11, 1860. The separate contracts were eliminated after the Southern Overland Route was shut down due to the onset of the Civil War and the mail contract held by Overland Mail Company on the southern route was transferred to the central route effective July 1, 1861. $0 (Image)