Excerpt from Appendix to the House Journal of the Adjourned Session of the Twenty-Second General Assembly of the State of Missouri T e lar e amount of stock taken by the people of this county in the Pacific and orth Missouri Railroads is the best evidence we can present to you of the great value they attach to the completion of these roads. They would further represent to your honorable body, that whilst it is of the greatest importance to Missouri and this city that these roads should be completed to the States of Kansas and Iowa, to contend with the seven Railroads from Chicago for the trade of these thriving young States, but little less in importance is the completion of the Missouri Valley Road to render this cit and the North Missouri Road more independent of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Road. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.