Samuel Hallett was my Partner! We paid Stone, Isaacs, Owing and McDowell (through General Fi out!) 100,000 for Pottowoncie Reservation Road—Leavenworth to Lawrence! (Then there was no road nearer Omaha than Des Moines, Iowa, and foxeph, Mo.!) When Leavenworth re-to give me Hundred Acres for Depot Grounds I said to Hallett: "Let us Start a New City! (This was in ter and Spring of 1862 and 1863!)
We drove down to Wyandotte, 35 miles this side the Kaw and Broke Ground for U. P.!_ There were only Three Huts other side of Kaw!) and this launched Kansas City (Leavenworth is Still Looking On!) Hallett got into debt! Had borrowed $5,000 of Oakes (afterwards President North Pacific Road) and owed everybody!
How much do you want? I ached!
Sixty thousand dollars will carry me along!
My contract with him in writing was $450,000 for what I would de T gave him
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