Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1871 — Burlington. [ARTICLE]

Burlington.

Leaving tho East and arriving at Chicago or Indianapolis, how shall we reach the West 7 The best Line is acknowledged to be the C., B. & Q„ joined together with the B. & M. Railroad by the Iron Bridge at Burlington, and called the Rurlington Route. The main Hue of the Route running to Omaha, connects with tho great Pacific Roads, and forms to-day the leading route to California. The Middle Branch, entering Nebraska at Plattsmouth, passes through Lincoln, the State Capital, aud>lll this year be finished to Fort Kearney, forming the shortest route across the Coutiuent by over 100 miles. Another branch of the B. & M., diverging st Red Oak, falls into a line running down the Missouri through St. Joe to Kansaß City, and all Kansas. Passengers by tills route to Kansas, see Illinois, Southern lowa and Missouri, and, by a slight divergence, can see Nebraska also. . ± Lovers of fine views should remember the Burlington Route, for Its town* “liigbgleaming from afar”—Us tree-fringed streams—its rough bluffs and quarries—its corn-oceans stretching over the prairies further than eye can reach-Land-buyers will be sure to remember it, for they have friends among the lwo thousand who have already bought farms lrom Geo. S. Harris, the Land Commissioner of the B. & M. R. R. at Burlington, lowa, or among the four thousand hoine-steaders and pre-emptors who last year filed claims in the Lincoln land office, where ‘‘Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm.”