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| | Encyclopedia of Missouri History: Railroads |
 | | The population of Missouri at the time was only 260,000, and there was not enough money in the State to build one of the proposed roads. |
 | | The capital stock of all the companies reporting to the Missouri board showed $28,544 a mile, and their liabilities $26,291 a mile, and these, estimated on the total mileage in Missouri, gives capital stock $194,784,256, liabilities $183,708,904, total $378,493,160. |
 | | Ninety-six percent of the main track of railroads in Missouri was laid with steel rails, and 45,541 tons of steel rail were used within the State in renewals and repairs in the year ending June 30, 1878, and in the same time 2,349,992 crossties were used in renewals and repairs. |
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