[CBQ] corporate history

[Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>]

Okay, here I go again.
I've got Baldwin's corporate history in one hand and Overton in the other.
Overton, on page 174, mentions the purchase of the St.Louis, Keokuk and Western 
Railway by the Q in 1881.
Baldwin makes no mention of this but shows Perkins buying it in 1888 and 
conveying it to a newly created Q subsidiary called the St.LK&W Railroad 
Company.  Later it is formally leased and then purchased.
Anyone have any insight to offer on this apparent discrepancy?
One of the things that makes me suspicious of the 1881 date is the financial 
troubles that allowed the 1888 purchase.
It surprised me that a Q owned company would find itself in default to its 
creditors.   But who am I to doubt Overton?
Duncan Cameron

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