DESERT WELLS STATION 

Loving and Carter identify Desert Wells as a station between Ragtown and Dayton.  Pierson locates Desert Wells after Reed's Station, between Nevada and Dayton.  Desert Wells existed sometime after July 1861, when it began to serve as a relay station for the Overland Mail Company line. During the last few months of its existence, the Pony Express also used the Desert Wells station facilities.  http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/poex/hrs/hrs8a.htm#161