The Wilmingtonian., 1885-03-14
The Great Middle Route TO California

The Atchson, Topeka & Santa Fe via
Albuquerque and Mojave, now beginning to
be well known to transcontnental travel,
traverses almost entirely a region whose eli
mate is but modification of perpetual sum
mer. There are no snow bound trains, long
delays Or disagreeahle ahd perilous winter
uncertainties. Storms, &ther of winter or
summer, are almost unk hown. Even on the
gradual ascent Of the t@estern plains tue
traveller is already in a oelebrated health
resort. Amid the uns rnassed scenery of
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ern California, the snow EhM dwells perpet-
ually on mountain tops en but not felt.
Cold, ordinarily conside fM is unknown.
Traversing some of tn bnOst striking won
deis and remarkable scenes OF nature, this
route lies also amid the ghaint surroundings
of that older civilization to which the ma
jority Of travellers ard 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 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; Manitou, the
Garden of the Gods, Cheyenne Canyon.
There is Las Vegas Hot Springs, with its
colossal hotel and 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 adyertises 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-
lightful rests and stopping places made by
nature 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 Ecad-bed in all respects
equaling this. Winter or summer there are
no delays. Il uses every improvement known
to modern advancement. By mere accident
it 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. Its desert" imme-
diately east of NIojave, is the nareowest and
cleanest of all those bowling wildernesses
which, by peculiar dispensation of Provi-
dence, every transcontinental line must
cross. As scene of impressive desolation,
studded with gigantic cacti and floored with
concrete and vast expanses of black aud
Jagged lava, walled by blue mountains and
glowing with yellow light, this desert .
traversed 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 hurry,
the invalid who is in search of health, or the
tourist who travels fer pleasure, the Great
Middle Route to the Pacific Coast has no !
equal in smoothness of track, elegance of
diversity Of scenery and interest,
regularity of time and certainty of connec-
tions.
Pamphlets showing theIewards California
has to offer to capital and labor, to industry
and enterprise, will be sent free, by writing
to D. ]. G. Kenyon, Box 8S4, Baltimore, Md.