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Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri:
Railroad Land Grants
The Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri was edited by Howard L. Conard and published by the Southern History Company, of New York, Louisville, and St. Louis, in 1901.
The University of Missouri Library has made avilable the entire contents of the 6 volume set on its website as part of the Virtually Missouri project. The books are in a section called Missouri: Its History, Geology and Culture.
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Railroad Land Grants
Railroad Land Grants. In the beginning of railroads in Missouri three of them received grants of government land to aid in their construction - the Pacific, 127,000 acres; the Southwest Branch (afterward the Atlantic & Pacific, and now the Frisco), and the Hannibal & St. Joseph (now part of the Burlington), 600,000 acres. Congress granted the lands to the State, and the State granted them to the roads. The Hannibal & St. Joseph Company, by a vigorous policy of attracting immigrants to their lands, turned their grant to considerable advantage, but the other grants were not so successfully managed and never yielded great benefits.
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