Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1871 — To Nebraska, California, Kansas, and the B. & M. R. R. [ARTICLE]

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

The starting point* of this Route r.ro at Chicago.and Peoria. The neutral 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 BlufTs, where, crossing to Omaha, it connects with the Union Pacific for all places on the intracontinental and Pacific slopes. Over-land travel and traffic choorjo* this reliable routo nioro and more. Its next terminus is Lincoln, the Capital of Nebraska, fifty-five miles west of the Missouri at Plattsmouth. This is the only direct avenue to the South Platte Country, where the sales of railroad land last season, rose to 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 wholo South-west. In journeying then, from the East to Kansas, via Burlington, you enjoy advantages you can secure on no other line. You both J 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 400,000 acres of prairie iu South-western lowa, now in market at low prices and long credit. Keep it then before pooplc westward bouud ‘‘to take the Burlington Route.” 3-21 ' *