"GOODWIN BLOWS HIS HORN!"
We present to the Commercial and Business Public the first number of our PACIFIC RAILWAY BUSINESS GUIDE AND GAZETTEER, trusting that it may prove acceptable to our subscribers and other patrons, as a convenient book of reference for business purposes.
In compiling the following pages, the Publisher has endeavored to
meet a want long and seriously felt by shippers and business men, of a reliable
guide to the towns, cities, and stations on the important lines of Railroads
comprised within the scope of this work. This he feels confident he
has succeeded in doing in as thorough a manner as can be done in a work
of this description. Considering the vast extent of country over which
his operations have extended, and the labor necessary to accomplish so
great an undertaking, entire freedom from errors is not within the range
of possibility; yet the Publisher claims that in all essential particulars this
work will be found correct and trustworthy. The plan embraces a complete
Business Directory of all the places on the Missouri Pacific and Union
Pacific (Eastern Division) Railways, together with a brief description or
history of some of the most prominent towns along the lines, the names
of the principal firms doing business therein, the advertisements of the
leading houses, and much other useful information and statistical matter.
To the management of the different roads the Publisher is under many
obligations for courtesies and facilities extended, by which the canvassers
and agents were enabled greatly to forward their work. The liberal patronage
extended to this publication has placed us under grateful obligations
to our numerous patrons, and the courtesies of the newspaper press are
warmly appreciated and cheerfully reciprocated by
J. WEST GOODWIN,
Publisher of Directories and Country Newspapers.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June, 1867.