The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-11-19
WHY CHEAPEST AND BEsT2

We see some envious mortals object to
the Chicago q North Western Railway
being called the greatest and best line in
the country. What means greatest Is
it more length of line, miles operated
and business transported? What means
best Every one knows the reply. That
this line is greatest, few facts will de-
monstrate. 1t operates nearly twenty
one hundred miles of road (2,079 to be
exact and reaches nearly every import
ant point in Northern Illinois, in Wis
consin, in Northern Michigan. in Iowa.
in Minnesota, and runs many lines into
Dakota. What other line begins to ira
verse so many States ?-None-Not one.
A road 800 miles in length is q long
one. A thousand miles makes great
line. What, then, should be said of one
2,100 miles long p-Just think of it-If
1T was laid eastward from New York it
would reach more than two. thirds of the
way across the Atlantic Ocean, or from
the pine clad hills of Maine to the sunny
shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Great is
it not? Then for a moment look at its
business. 1t carries millions think of
what millions mean) of passengers
year, to say nothing of the silver and
iron, and lead, and lumber, and cattle
and hogs, and thousands of thousands
of car loads of wheat, and oats, and
corn, and horses, sheep, and the thou
sand and one other kinds of freight that
is grown or used or handled by the peo-
pie of the great Northwest, through
which it is the great iron highway.
Take down your map and trace its
routes. Fix your eye on Chicago as a
starting point. Westward, in nearly an
air line, you will trace its California line
until you reach the Missouri river at
Council Bluffs, opposite Omaha-here is
single run of nearly 500 miles. Back
to Chicago again you look Northwest,
and follow another of its routes through
Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin,
through the pine woods of that whole
State and into Minnesota, and on to st.
Paul and Minneapolis-this is 400 miles
more. Again looking from Chicago you
can trace line through Sparta, Wiscon-
sin, Lacrosse, in the same State,
Winona, Owatonna and New Ulm, in
Minnesota, and North westward far in
to akota-here we have 625 miles more
of road. Again coming to Chicago we
see two lines running Northwardly-one
along the lake shore to Milwaukee, and
thence to Fond du Lac, and the other
running more inland, through James,
Vile, Watertown, etc., also to Fond du
Lac, thence North through Oshkosh,
DePere, Green Bay and Escanaba, to
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here is another 440 miles of road. Then
we have line from Chicago to Elgin,
Rockford and Freeport, another from
Clinton, Iowa, to Anamosa in the same
State, another from Kenosha on Lake
Michigan to Rockford, in Northern
Illinois, and after all longer lines we
have many short spans to traverse be-
fore we have found out all of the Chica-
go & North Western Railway.
Is it any wonder, then, that this line
is called the great Western Trunk Line?
So far ahead of anything else is it in
the way of road bed, cars, locomotives
and hotel coaches, that even its competi-
tors are obliged to acknowledge that it is
the best.
The passenger to or from California,
Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, the Black
Hills, Minnesota, Manitoba, the East,
West, North or South, should see that
they are furnished tickets by this great
line. Forget not that this alone of all
the roads west or north of Chicago, run
the world-renowned Pullman hotel car
No other western road has Pullman or
any other form of hotel car, no matter
what they claim.-Ihe Herald.