The Wilmingtonian., 1885-03-28
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 disagreoahle and perilous winter
uncertainties Storms, either OF winter Or
summer, are almost unknown. Even ON the
gradual ascent Of the western plains tue
traveller is already in celebrated health
7 fss0rt. -Eusss -.FC T,sv-a-u scrnrYy a
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
dels and remal kable scenes OF nature, this
route lies also amid tile 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, where
ten years Of occupancy have produced all
the results Of century i'll 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; Mauitou, the
Garden of the Gods, Cheyenne Canyon.
There is Las Vegas Hot Springs, with its
col Jssal hotel and uuequaled pleasure
grounds anil baths: Santa Fc, III Paso, Los
Angeles, aud all that lies between these
points through the sa,dens and vineyards ot
southern California up to San Francisco.
Tie Santa Fe Route is especially adapted
to the business is advcrtises and in every
case fuiltls its promises. Its facilities FOL
through California business have lately beer
largely increased. Leaving oat all consider
aton3 Of pleasure, and passing by all the de
lightful rests and stopping places made b,
ma ure aud improved by man, there is II,
route by which tie traveller can reach til,
principal points of the Pacific Coast NOR
quickly or surely. Thre is no tansconti
mental line having ruad-bc in all respects
eqqaling this. Winter or summer there an
no delays, 1t uses every improvement know
to mod ri advance ment. by mere acciden
= it lacks precisely nineteen miles Of being tin
! shortest OF al routes between the Missou,
5 Rive! aud San Franctsc, and is practical,
able 10 discount no time table OF any othe
, rpute by several hoass. Its desert" fmmc
diatciy east OF Maiavc is the narrowest an,
clcanest Of ali those bowling wlldcrnessc
which, by peculiar dispcnsation o. Provi
dencc, every tlanscontinental line mus
cross As scene of impressive desolation
studded with gigantic cacti and hoored will
concrete and vast cxpauseS Of black an,
/. jagged lava, walled by blue mountains an,
e glowing with yellow light, this desert,
tavcrsed at a speed of forty miles an hour
is one Of the most impressive scenes of
remarkable Journey
For the business man who is in a hurry
the i'.valid WHO is in search Of hOalth. or th
tourist who travels fer pleasure, the Grea
! Middle Route t, the Pacific Coast has n
equal in sml2tLacss Of track, elegance q
. equipment. diversity Of scenery and interest
regularity Of time and certainty of connec
tions
Pamphlets showing the eIewards Californi
has to offer to capital and Labor, to ndustr,
and enterprise, will be sent free. by writin
to D, J, c. Kenyon, Box 6s4, Baltimore, Nd