Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-02-07
THE GREAT MIDDLE ROUTE TO
CALIFORNIA.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.
This route, now beginning to be
wsllknown to transcontinenta travel,
travsrses almost entirely region
whose climate is but modification of
perpetual summer. There are no
snow-bound trains, long delays or
disagreeable and perilous winter un-
certainties. 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
perpetual on mountain tops is seen
but not felt. Cold, ordinarily con-
sidered, is unknown.
Traversing some of the most strik-
ing wonders and remarkable scenes
of nature, this route lies also amid
the quaint surroundings of that older
civilization to which the majority of
travellers are as yet strangers. Adobe
towns, Pueblo villages, queer customs
and costumes, and the oldest and
happiest civilization of America ap-
appear Immediately beyond that mir
acle of modern progress, middle and
western Kansas, where ten years Of
occupancy have produced all the re-
suits of century in any other land.
There are the scenes that seem to
have been set by nature at most un-
timely hours and Immediately after
the result of some Titanic election
had been declared Manitou, the Gar
den Of the Gods, Cheyenne Canyon.
There is Las Vegas Hot Springs,
with it's 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 South
ern California up to Saa Francisco.
The Santa l1e Route 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 in-
creased. Leaving out all considera-
tions of pleasure, and passing by all
the delightful rests and stopping
places made by nature and improved
by man, there Is no route by which
the traveller can reach the principal
parts of the Pacific Coast more quick
ly 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 tomodern
advancement. BY mere accident it
lacks precisely nineteen miles of
being tho shortest of all routes be-
tween the Missouri River and San
Francisco and is practically able to
discount the time table Of any other
route by several hours. Its 'desert,"
Immediately east of Mojave, Is the
narrowest and cleanest Of all those
bowling wildernesses which, by
peculiar dispensation of Providence,
every transcontinental line must
cross. AS scene of impressive des-
olation, studded with gigantic cacti
and foored with concrete and vast
expanses of black and jagged lava,
walled by blue mountains and glow
ing 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
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 aud csr-
tainty of connections.
Pamphlets showing what rewards
California has to offer to capital and
labor, to industry and enterprise,
may be had free of charge by writing
to W. J. G. Kenyon, Box 684, Balti-
more, Maryland.
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