A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . oads, and no transcon-tinental road could be built without such aid. However, atthis convention Benton made a great speech in favor ofsuch a i^oad in which, pointing to the west, he said: Therelies the East, there lies the road to India. This is themost quoted speech of Bentons. Two years before (1847) Missouri had chartered theHannibal and St. Joseph railroad. In 1849 the Pacific rail-road and in 1851 the North Missouri, now the Wabash, werechartered. Others fol
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . oads, and no transcon-tinental road could be built without such aid. However, atthis convention Benton made a great speech in favor ofsuch a i^oad in which, pointing to the west, he said: Therelies the East, there lies the road to India. This is themost quoted speech of Bentons. Two years before (1847) Missouri had chartered theHannibal and St. Joseph railroad. In 1849 the Pacific rail-road and in 1851 the North Missouri, now the Wabash, werechartered. Others followed fast for the people were demand-ing railroads. In 1849 the State was out of debt and pros-perous. In 1851 the State granted financial aid to help build 298 History of Missouri and Missourians railroads and the National Government gave them begun there was no stopping. The roads were finallybuilt, although slowly. When settlement was made in the60s it was found that the State of Missouri had lostnearly $25,000,000. through financial aid or credit. Thefirst railroad actualh- bec^un was the Pacific, later the Mis-. FJRST LO(THE PAC RUN W •. RIVER, ON; RSON CITY souri raoific. ^ as the Hannibal and St. Josepl: The first locomotive west of the Mississippi was runon the Pacific railroad out of St. Louis in 1852. At thattime Missouri had only five miles of railroad. Progressin railroad building was slow since the cost of constructionproved to be much higher than had been estimated. TheState lent her credit in large amounts. Congress madeliberal grants of public land to the roads. Despite these aidsMissouri had only 817 miles of railroad by 1860. ThePacific and the Hannibal and St. Joseph road had madegreat progress, the latter being the first to cross the 1860 all the roads except the Hannibal and St. Josephrailroad had defaulted payment on their bonds. TheCivil War made matters worse. Construction practically A Century of Transportation 299 stopped and prop
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