Excerpt from Lands in Arkansas From Missouri to Texas: Acres of Agricultural, Timber and Mineral
This company was organized under a charter granted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, on the twelfth day of January, 1853, and by subsequent acts. It was fully empowered to construct and operate a road, beginning at a point on the Mississippi River, opposite the mouth of the Ohio, in the State of Missouri, and thence southwest by way of Little Rock to the Texas boundary line near Fulton, with all necessary branches to enter the northeastern and northwestern portions of Texas. The company was also fully empowered to connect with any roads in Texas running north of Galveston; at its northern terminus to connect with the Missouri road, and also to consolidate with any other road; the most liberal legislative permission, from time to time, having been granted to carry out fully all of these objects. The tenth section of the act of incorporation reads: "Said corporation shall have power to unite their road with the southern end of the Missouri road, at some suitable point on the line which divides these two States (thus making St. Louis, Mo., its northern terminus), and its southern end with any road coming in from Texas, at such point on the boundary line which divides that State and Arkansas." The International Railroad, of Texas, with which it connects at Fulton, passes for nearly six hundred miles through the State of Texas to Laredo, on the Rio Grande - these two roads making a part of the great trunk line from Mexico and the Southwest to the North and East.
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