Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1881 — Riches Within Easy Reach [ARTICLE]
Riches Within Easy Reach
'•Tlio formal amiouncemept lias been made of the opening of the new Southern route to the Pacific coast, via the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroads, opening up tho richest mineral section in tho Union, and through trains are now running regularly from Kansas city, passing through the gold-and silver mining regions of New Mexico and Arizona. Following tliis comes the glad tidings that the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Hannibal & St. Joseph Through Line has put on a fast TRAIN, to run EVERY day between Chicago and Kansas City, leaving Chicago at 9: Co in the e\elling THE ENTIRE TRAIN RUNNING THROUGH to Kansas City, making ; direct connection with the through train, via the new rout for New Mexico, Arizona, San Francisco, and all points in Southern Caiifornn. Thus is tho first and only daily train .that has ever run between Chicago and Kansas City. It is composed of Pullman Palace sleeping cars; parlor cars with reclining chairs, smoking-cars with revolving chairs and the famous C., B. A Q. dining-cars. In every detail of its appointment this new fast express will be equal to the renowned Pacific trains of the Burlington route, the popularity of which has become so widely known as to secure for it over 8o per cent of the California travel. The enterprise which keeps the C., B. «£ Q. &H. & St. Joe through line always at the head, is indeed worthy the hearty support of the traveling public.
