Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1915 — Long Journey.- [ARTICLE]

Long Journey.-

A railroad from Nome to Cape Horn is being considered, and sometime we may be able to take a through sleeper from one end of the American continent to the other. In that case we would sample "all kinds of climates from.arctic to tropical and we would encounter endless variety of surface ahd scenery. Popular Mechanics says that several routes for such a railroad are being considered, but which ever one may be chosen the lines already built find covering over half tho distance would be utilised. The fact that these exist makes the project seem less like a dream, hut if we smile over it we might remember that men of affairs laughed at Cecil Rhodes when he suggested a railroad from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo —the entire length of Africa —but that road is now being built —is more than half done, Indeed.