In the early spring of this year certain citizens of the county conceived the idea of constructing a railway from Marion City to Palmyra. The matter having been duly “talked up” and given notoriety through the newspapers, a meeting of those favoring the project was held at Palmyra, April 23. This meeting adjourned to May 7, when Thos. Millan presided, and a committee of three was appointed to raise a fund for defraying the expenses of a survey of the most practicable route. Wm. H. Walker, J. G. Easton, and James F. Mahan constituted this committee. May 15, at another meeting, an organization of a company was effected, and a board of trustees appointed. Stanton Buckner was president, James F. Mahan treasurer, and Joseph G. Easton secretary. The survey was made, portions of the subscriptions to the stock called, the cost of building the road estimated, and about the 1st of September a contract was made with J. W. Shepherd for building the roadbed-to be completed by November 1. The contractor began operations immediately, and by the middle of October had a considerable force of men at work. After a time, owing to a failure to collect the subscriptions, work was slackened, and in March and April following, there was an entire suspension, consequent on a refusal of certain property owners to grant the right of way. April 15, 1848, a public meeting at Palmyra resolved that the contractor should go on with the work until the funds should give out entirely. One person was appointed in each township to solicit donations and additional subscriptions, and a vigorous canvass in aid of the enterprise was entered upon and by the 1st of May it was announced that “all obstacles in the way of the railroad are removed, the company has the right of way the whole route,” and so the work was resumed again. But by and by, the people lost interest in the project. The Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad came to the front, bringing about a treaty of peace between Hannibal and Palmyra, whereby both were to have the railroad, which promised larger and more important results, and so the Palmyra & Marion City Railway was abandoned. All that the county seat desired was railway communication with the river, and while it preferred that Hannibal should have no railroad, yet if it were to have one, Palmyra wanted the same road, too. Portions of the grading of the old Palmyra & Marion City Railway are yet to be seen.