Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 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 points of this Route are at Chicago and Peoria. The central point la BURLINGTON, on tiio Mississippi. It travefsos 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 Bluffs, where, crossing to Omaha, it connects witli the Union Pacific for all places on tho iutracontinental 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-live miles west of the Missouri at Plattsmoutli. This is tho only direct avenue to tho South Platte Country, where the sales of railroad land last season, roso to half a million. Its third termiuuais 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 secure on no oilier 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 4Ut),000 acres of prairie in Southwestern lowa, now in market at low prices and long credit. Keep it then before people westward bound “to lake the Burlington Route.” 3-21