1874 report detailing the problems and opportunities presented by the Mill Creek Valley railroad corridor through the city of St. Louis. As that corridor divided the city, various recommendations were discussed to construct bridges over it.
Albert Koch owned the St. Louis Museum until he sold it to William McPherson in 1841. During the later years of the 1830s he began traveling to excavate fossils to display in his museum. The Missourium, like his later Zeuglodon skeletons, was a specimen so great that Koch closed his museum and took it on a tour to Europe where it was eventually sold. This publication of Koch's description of
1857 letter from G. C. Swallow to William McPherson, president of the Pacific Railroad Company, describing the weather, resources, and condition of the southwestern part of Missouri where the south-western branch of the Pacific Railroad operated.
The full title of this report is IN THE MATTER OF THE Connecticut River Bridge, AT MIDDLETOWN AND PORTLAND, CONNECTICUT, FACTS, Respectfully submitted for the Consideration of the Honorable, the Committee on Roads and Canals, House of Representatives of the United States., Caption title.
Signed: Edward W. Serrell
