The Wilmingtonian., 1885-03-21
The Great MiddIe route 10 california

The Great Middle Route 10 California
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe via
Albuquerque and Mojave, now beginning to
be well known TO transcontinental travel,
traverses almost entirely region whose eli
mate is but modification of perpetual sum-
mer. There are no snow-bound trains long
delays or dis reeable and perilous winter
uncertainties. Storms, either of winter or
summer, are a kmost unknown. Even on the
gradual ascent Of the western plains tue
traveller is already in celebrated health
resort Amid the unsurpassed scenery OF
New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and SOUTH
ern California, the snow that dwells perpet-
ually on mountain tops is seen but not felt.
Cold, ordinarily considered, is unknown.
Traversing some of the most striking won
deIs and remarkable scenes OF nature, this
route lies also amid the quaint surroundings
of that older civilization to which the ma
Jority of travellers are as yet strangers.
Adobe towns, Pueblo villages, queer Gus.
toms and costumes, and the Oldest and
happiest civilization of America appear i'm
mediately beyond that miracle of modern
progress, middle and western Kansas, here
ten years of occupancy have produced all
the RESULTS of a century in any other land.
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set by nature at most untimely hours and
immediately after the result of some Titanic
election had been declared; Manitou, the
Garden of the Gods, Cheyenne Canyon.
There is Las Vegas Hot Springs, with its
colossal hotel aud unequaled pleasure
grounds and baths; Santa Fe, Ell Paso, Los
Angeles, and all that lies between these
points through the gardens and vineyards of
southern California up to San Francisco.
The Santa Fe Roete is especially adapted
to the business it advertises and in every
case fulils its promises. Its facilities for
through California business have lately been
largely increased. Leaving out all consider
ations of pleasure, and passing by all the de-
lightrul rests and stopping places made by
na'ure and improved by man, there is no
route by which the traveller can reach the
principal points of the Pacific Coast more
quickly or surely. There is no transconti-
mental line having road-bed in all respects
equaling this. Winter or summer there are
no delays. 1t uses every improvement known
to mod rn advancement By mere accident
it lacks precisely nineteen miles of being the
shortest of all routes between the Missouri
Rivei and San Francisco and is practically
able to discount the time table of any other
route by several hours. Its desert" imme-
diateiy east of Moiave, is the narrowest and
cleanest of all those bowling wildernesses
which, by peculiar dispensatiou of Provi-
dence, every transcontinental line must
cross. As scene of impressive desolatiop.
studded with gigantic cacti and foore1 with
concrete and vast expanses of black and
Jagged lava, walled by blue mountains and
glowing with yellow light, this desert"
travorsed at speed of forty miles an hour,
is one of the most impressive scenes of a
remarkable journey
For the business man who is in a hurry.
the l'-Valid who is in search of health, or the
tourist who travels for pleasure, the Great
Middle Route to the Pacific Coast has no
equal in smoothness of track, elegance of
equipment, diversity of scenery and interest
regularity of time aud certainty of eonnec.
tiuus
Pamphlets showing the Iewards California
has to offer to capital and labor, to industry
and enterprise will be sent free, by writing
to D. j. c. Kenyon, Box 6s4, Baltimore, Md.