”The arrangements thus completed, Col. Loughborough (acting for his road) and Messrs. Mills & Co., issued invitations to 400 newspapers, to send their representatives to St. Louis, on the 28th of September, 1875; thence to be conveyed upon their journey by a special train of Pullman cars. Transportation to and from all portions of the State was offered to the visitors. A supplementary circular was issued by T. B. Mills & Co., explaining that the transportation to and from all points would be furnished without charge to the travelers, and that they would be treated as the guests of the various towns and cities visited after leaving St. Louis.

On the day designated, there were in St. Louis, in response to the invitation, the following named gentlemen, representing the papers named with them respectively:

JOSEPH E. WARE, Mines, Metals and Arts, St. Louis, and Ware’s Monthly Magazine.”

Reference Data:

A History of the North-Western Editorial Excursion to Arkansas, by T.B. Mills & Co., 1876, pages 3-4