The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04
The Great Middle Route to California


The Atehison, Topeka & Santa Fe via
Albuquerque and Mojave, now beginning to
be well known to transcontinental travel,
traverses almost entirely region whose cli-
mate is but modification of perpetual sum
mer. There are no bound trains, long
delays or dsagreeable and perilous winter
uncertainties. Storms, either of winter or
summer, are almost unknown. Even on the
gradual ascent of the western plains the
traveller is already in a 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.
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ders 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
medately beyond that miracle of modern
progress, middle and western Kansas, where
ten years of occupancy have produced all
the results Of q century in any other land.
There are the scenes that seem to have been
set by nature at most untimely hours and
Immediately after the result of some Titanic
| election had been declared; Nanitou, 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 RoGte is especially adapted
to the business it advertises and in every
case fultils 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-
lghtful rests and stopping places made by
ma ure and improved 10y 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 tlansconti-
mental line having road-bed in all respects
cqualing this, Winter or summer there are
no delays. 1t uses every improvement known
to modern advancement by mere accident
( il lacks precisely nineteen miles of being the
shortest of all routes between the Missouri
River and San Francisco and is practically
able TO discount the time table Of any other
/ route by several hours. It's desert. " immc-
| diatciy east OF Moiavc, is the nareowest and
clcanest ofall those bowling widernesses
which, by peculiar dispcmsltion of Proyi.
dcncc, every tianscontincntal line must
cross, AS scene Of impressive dcsolation
studded with gigantic cacti and flo rel with
concrete and vast cxpanscs Of black and
Jagged lava, walled by blue mountains and
glowing with yellow light, this desert. .
travcrscd at a 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 invalid who is in search of health, or the
tourist who travels for pleasure, the Great
Middle Route to tho Pacific Coast has no
equal in smoothness of track, elegance of
equipment, diversity Of scenery and interest,
regularity Of time and certainty of connec-
tions.
Pamphlets showing the rewards California
has to offer to capital aud labor, to industry
aud enterprise, will be sent free, by writing