COUNTIES OF MISSOURI. 
The face of the country is undulating, and interspersed with 
The soil is generally fertile, and well adapted 
for the purposes of agriculture, particularly for stock and fruit. 
prairie and timber. 
Wright County—Is situated in the south central part ‘of the 
State, and is drained by Gasconade River and its tributaries, some 
of which furnish good water power. 
Haernice: the peer es seat, estimated population in 1870, 300, 
is situated on a fork of the Gasconade River, near the center of 
the county, 25 miles southeast of Marshfield, Webster County, 
which is a station on the Atlantic & Pacific Railway, 217 miles 
from St. Louis. 
The surface of the country varies from undulating to hilly and 
broken. The Ozark Hills extend through the southern part of the 
county, and they and the bluffs along the Gasconade present much 
wild and picturesque scenery. ‘The soil in the valleys and small 
portions of the uplands is fertile and bears well. The uplands are 
mainly adapted for grapes and other fruit. 
lead, iron and copper. It was first settled in 18338. 
RAILROADS. 
For location of the Depots, etc., of these Roads in St. Louis, see “ Railroads,” in our List of Subscribers as given in this Volume, 
The first Convention to consider the importance and feasibility of 
building railroads in the State, was held on the 2oth of April, 
1835, at the Court House in St. Louis, attended by sixty-four del- 
egates from eleven of the most populous counties in the State. 
The Convention, after mature deliberation, recommended the 
construction of one road to the Bellevue Valley, v/a Iron Moun- 
tain and Pilot Knob, and another to Fayette, Howard County. 
The officers of the first railroad convention have nearly all long 
since been called to their final reward, yet the hopes they enter- 
tained have been already realized and more extended projects 
executed—based on their initiatory labors, and there are now, 
(1872,) nearly 3,000 miles of railways in operation in the State. 
Name of Corporation. 
*Atlantic & Pacific 
Burlington & perenEe (from the Iowa State Line to 
Laclede, Linn County,) 
*Chicago & Alton, Leneean Branch 100 
*Chicago, Rock island & Pacific, Southwestern Branch ...139 
Winthrop Branch 29 
Hannibal & Central Missouri (Hannibal to Moberly).......... 71 
Hannibal & St. Joseph 206 
cod ron & Kansas a Branch 
a & Quincy Branc 15—274 
Piss city, 5 ‘oom i Ye el Bluffs 148 
Maryville Bra 63—211 
Memphis, caries & Nortl ° 
*Missouri, Kansas & Texas, | etapa -sgaincaat, yensd pebeyvans 106 
Osage Division, (Holden west).........-+..::c006 ss 35—141 
Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska, raleoadens to Griffin 
*Pacific Railroad of dg asec (St. Louis to ane City)..282 
Boonevil 25 
iciietchs ange 55 
Lawrence Branch . : 
Kirkwood & Carondelet Branch ee 
Quincy, Missouri & Pacific, (from W. Quincy to Kirksville, 
Adair — 
St. Louis & Iron Mou 96 
rkansas Branch "(Bistiatk to Arkansas State Line) 1 101 
Potosi Branc Baie 
ng. 2 — Tina City & Norther 
Northern Division, (Moberly to Iowa State Line).. 33 
Lexington & St. Joseph: ‘Branc "7 
St. Louis, Council Bluffs & Oniahia Branch, (Bruns- 
wick to Pattonsburg) 80 
Columbia Branch 
Total 
22—5 41 
2.782 
e@ wv 
*Length in miles of this railroad in Missouri only. 
Length in Miles, + 
PROJECTED RAILROADS. 
The following are some of the principal railroads among the 
many that are now being projected and constructed in the State : 
Mississippi & Missouri, from Glasgow, Howard County, north- 
east to Keokuk, Iowa, passing through Chariton, Macon, Shelby, 
Knox, Lewis and Clark counties. + 
St. Louis & Keokuk, from Dardennes, St. Charles County, 
northwest to Keokuk, Iowa, passing through St. Charles, Lincoln, 
Pike, Ralls, Marion, Lewis and Clark Counties. 
St. Louis, Kansas Ciry & NorTHERN—St. Louis, Councin 
Biurrs & OMAHA BRANCH, from its present terminus, Pattons- 
burg, Daviess County, northwest to the Iowa State Line, passing 
through Daviess, Harrison, Gentry, Worth and Nodaway Counties, 
Missourt, Kansas & Texas, SEDALIA Division, from Sedalia, 
Pettis County, northeast to Moberly, Randolph County, passing 
through the intervening counties of Cooper and Howard. 
LacLepe & Fort Scott, (from Lebanon, Laclede County, west 
to Fort Scott, Kansas, passing through Laclede, Dallas, Polk, Cedar 
and Vernon Counties. ) 
Sr. Louis, Satem & Littrte Rock, from Cuba, Crawford 
County, south to the Arkansas State Line, passing through Craw- 
ford, Dent, Texas and Howell Counties. 
Catro, ArRKaNsAS & Texas, former name Cairo & Fulton, 
from Bird's Point, Mississippi County, southwest to the Arkansas 
State Line, passing through Mississippi, Scott, New Madrid, 
Stoddard and Butler Counties. 
BurLInGTON & SOUTHWESTERN, from its present terminus at La 
clede, Linn County, southwest through Chariton, Carroll and 
Ray Counties to Lexington, and from ‘Lexington to Kansas City, 
through Lafayette and Jackson Counties. Also from Lexington, 
south through Lafayette, Cass, Bates, Vernon, Barton and Jasper 
Counties. This Company are also surveying a route from Union- 
ville to St. Joseph, through Putnam, Mercer, Harrison, Daviess, 
DeKalb and Buchanan Counties. 
The county contains ~ 
