Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1871 — To Nebraska, California, Kansas, and the B, & M. R. R. [ARTICLE]

To Nebraska, California, Kansas, and the B, & M. R. R.

The starting points of this Route are nt Chicago and Peoria. The central point Is BURLINGTON, ’on the Mississippi. It traverses Illinois and the whole breadth of Southern lowa. Near the Missouri, its trunk forks into three branches, for it has three western termini. Its northern terminus is Council Blufls, where, crossing to Omaha, it connects with the Union Pacific for al! places on the intracontinental and Pacific slopes. Over-land travel and traffic choose this reliable route more and more. Its next terminus is Lincoln, the Capital of Nebraska, fifty-five miles west of the Missouri at Plattsmouth. This is the onlydirect avenue to the South Platte Country, where the sales ol railroad land last season, rosejp half a million. Its third terminus is at Hamburg, and Nebraska City. At Hamburg, it makes close connections, twice a day, for St. Joseph, Leavenworth, Kansas City, and the whole South-west. In journeying then, from the East to Kansas, via Burling'on, you enjoy advantages you can secure on no other line. You both pass over a road second to no other in speed safety, or any Pullman luxury of modern travel; and while on your wav, survey the garden of Illinois and Missouri, as well as 400,000 acres of prairie in South-western lowa, now in market at low prices and long credit. Keep it then before people westward bound “to lake the Burlington Route.” 3-21