The Wilmingtonian., 1885-03-07
The Great Middle Route to California

The Great Middle Route to California
The Atchison, Topeka II 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 disagreeahle 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 alseady 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
dels 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, " here
ten years of occupancy have produced all
the results of a century in any other land
There arc 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 Fc RoEte is especially adapted
to the business it advertses and in every
case fuliils its promises. lis facilities for
| through California business have lately been
largely increased, Leaving olt all consider
ations of pleasure, and passing by all the de-
lightful rests and stopping places made by
na'ure 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 transcunti-
mental linc having road-bed in all respects
equaling this. Winter or summer there are
no delays. II 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 Mojaye, is the narsowest and
clcanest Of all those bowling wildernesses
which, by peculiar dispemsation Of Provi-
dence, every transcontinental line must
cross. AS scene of impressive desuation,
studded with gigantic cacti and foorel with
concrete and vast expanses of black and
Jagged lava, walled by blue mountains and
glowing with yellow light, this desert"
traversed 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 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
equipment, diversity Of scenery and interest
regularity of time and certainty of connec
tions
Pamphlets showing theIewaids California /
has to offer to capital and labor, to industry
and enterprise, will be sent free, by writing
to D. j. c. Kenyon, Box GS4, Baltimore, Nd. |