Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1871 — To Nebraska, California, Kansas, and the E. & M. R. R. [ARTICLE]
To Nebraska, California, Kansas, and the E. & M. R. R.
Ti>e startinjrpplnta of this Route are at Chicago a(<l Peoria. The central point to BURLINGTON, on the Mississippi. It traverses Illinois and tho 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 with the Union Pacific for all places on the intracoalmoata! and Pacific slopes. Over-land -travel and traffic choose this reliable route uioro and mere. ■lts next terminus is Lincoln, the Capita! cf Nebraska, fifty-five miles west of the Missouri at Plattsmouth. This is tho only direct avenue to the South Platte Country, where the sales, of railroad land lajt season, rose to half a million. Its third terminus is at Hamburg,"and NebrasknCily'. At Hamburg, if 'makes close connections, twica a day, for St. Joseph, Leaveuwoith, Kansas City, and the whole South-weal. Iu jourueyitig thee, from the East to Kans;>s, vi a Burliag’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 tray, survey the garden of Illinois and Missouri, as well as 400,000 acres of prairie In Soutli-yrtMtern lowa, now in market at low price* and long i credit. . 7 Keep ft thou before peonlowestward bound j •'l'. '.A? ts Eurhngtvu Route;" 3-21 .
