Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1871 — To Nebraska, California, Kansas, and the B. & M. R. R. [ARTICLE]

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

Tho starting paintu of thia Route are nt Chicago and Peoria. Tho central point Is BURLINGTON, on the Mississippi. It traverses Illinois and the whole breadth of Southern lowa. Near tho Missouri, its trunk forks into three branches, for it has three western termini. Its northern terminus Is Council Bluffs, where, crossing tirOmaha, it couuecta With the Union Pacific for all places on the intracoutineutal 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 tho Missouri at.Plattsmouth. This is the only direct avenue to tho South Platte Country, where the sales of railroad laud last season, rose to half a million. Its third terminus is at Hamburg, and Nebraska City. At Hamburg, it makes close connections, twico a day,, for St. Joseph, Leavenworth, Kansas City, and tho whole South-west. In journeying then, from the East to Kansas, via Burlington, you enjoy advantages you ean 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 way, survey the garden of Illinois and Missouri, as well as 400,D00 acres of prairie in South western lowa, now in market al low prices and long credit. Keep it then before people westward bound “to take the Burlington Route.” > 3-21