The Wilmingtonian., 1885-02-14
Tne crea, N,ddIe Route 10 California

The Atchson, Topeka & Santa Fe via
Albuquerque and Mojave, now beginning to
be well known to transcontmental travel,
trayerses almost entirely region whose eli
mate is but modification of perpetual sum.
mer There are no snow bound trains, long
delays or disagreeanle 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 celebrated health
resort. Amid the unsurpassed scenery of
New Mexico, Colorado. Arizona and south
ern California the snow that dwells perpet-
ualIy 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
pEOREthh, illtuulG Ntoici II lhuiiHhc3 htiD
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 dcclar d; Maniiou, 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, El 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 fufls its promises. Its facilities for
through California business have lately been
largely increased. Leaving oat all consider
ations of pleasure, and passing by all the de-
lightful rests and stopping places made by
ma ure and improved by man, there is no
route by which the traveller eau 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 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
eleanest of all those howling wildernesses
which, by peculiar dispensation of Provi
dence, every transcontinental line must
cross. AS scene of impressive desoation
studded with gigantic cacti and iloore1 will
concrete and vast expanses Of black anc
| Jagged lava, walled by blue mountains ant
glowing with yellow light, this desert,
traversed at speed of forty miles an hour
is one of the most impressive scenes of .
remarkable journey.
For the business man who is in hurry
the invalid who is in search of health, or tn
tourist who travels for pleasure, the Grea
Middle Route to the Pacific Coast has III
equal in smoothness of track, elegance o
equipment, diversity of scenery and interest
regularity of time and certainty of connec
tions.
Pamphlets showing the rewards Californi
has to offer to capital and labor, to industr
and enterprise, will be sent free, by writin
to d. j. G. Kenyon, Box 684, Baltimore, Mo