Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1871 — Te Nebraska, California, Kansas, and thse B. & M. R. R. [ARTICLE]

Te Nebraska, California, Kansas, and thse B. & M. R. R.

Tlio starting points of this Route nro at Chicago mill Peoriu. Tho central point I« BURLINGTON, on tlio Mississippi. "'lt truverses Illinois mid tlio wholo lireudth of Southern lowu. Near tho Missouri, its trunk forks into three branches, for it has threo western termini. Its northern terminus Is Council Bluffs, where, crossing to Omuha, it connects with tho Union Pacific for nil places od tho iiutucontinental and Pacific slopes. Over-land travel and traffic chooso this reliable route moro and moro. Its next terminus is * Incoln, tho Capital of Nebraska, fifty-five miles west of tho Missouri at Plattsm outli; This Is the only direct avenue to the South Platte Country, where the snles of railroad land last season, rose to half a million. Its third terminus la at Hamburg, and Nebraska City. At Hamburg, it makes close connections, twico a day, for St. Joseph, Leavenworth, Kansas City, and the whole South-west. In journeying then, from the East to Kansas, via Burlington, you enjoy advantages you can Becure on no other lino. You both pass over a roud 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 400,000 acres of prairie in South-western lowa, now in market at low prices and long credit. Keep it then before people westward bouud "to take the Burlington Route.” 3-21