The Wilmingtonian., 1885-02-21
The Great Middle Route TO California

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe via
Albuquerque and Mojave, now beginning tc
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 disagreeahle and perilous winter
uncertainties. Storms, either of winter Oh
summer, are almost unknown. Even on the
gradual ascent of the western plains the
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
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
mediately beyond that miracle of modern
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; 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, FL 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 fulfils its promises. Its facilities for
through California business have lately been
largely increased. Leaving out all consider
ations of pleasure, and passing by all tho 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 a road-bed in all respects
equaling this. Winter or summer there are
no delays. 1t 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 Mojave, is the narrowest and
cleanest of all those bowling wildernesses
which, by a peculiar lispensation of Provi-
dence, every transcontinental line must
cross. AS scene of impressive desolation,
studded with gigantic cacti and hoored with
concrete and vast expanses of black and
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 d
remarkable journey.
For the business man who is in hurry
the invalid 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 and certainty of connec-
tions.
Pamphlets showing the rewards California
has to offer to capita! and labor, to industry
and ntelprise, will be sent free, by writing
to D. j. @. Kenyon, Box 6s4, Baltimore, Nd.