SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. (LATE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, EASTERN DIVISION,) TO THE STOCKHOLDERS. FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1868

St. Louis: Levison & Blythe, [1869].. 32pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Wrappers soiled and ink stamp and annotation to front wrapper. Very good. A report on the Kansas Pacific Railway Company's earnings and expenses for the year 1868. Includes discussions of Texas cattle shipped from Abilene, the need for "speedy settlement" of the company's lands "by an active producing population," a projected extension through New Mexico and Arizona, the planned completion of the extension to Denver, and the eventual connection with the Union Pacific via the Denver Pacific between Denver and Cheyenne. Reproduces the text of three congressional acts, including (truncated) the joint resolution dated March 3, 1869, authorizing the company's name change from "the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division" to the "Kansas Pacific Railway Company." William J. Palmer was a member of the Board of Directors of the Kansas Pacific, his own much more complicated and torturous efforts to run a railway line through southern Colorado, into New Mexico, and thence to the Pacific Ocean still in his future. This report was published in St. Louis, and is scarcer than another edition of the report, with a New York imprint. RAILWAY ECONOMICS, p.314. LITERATURE RELATING TO THE UNION PACIFIC, p.229. EBERSTADT 137:301 (New York ed). (Inventory #: WRCAM59062)