Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1871 — Burlington. [ARTICLE]

Burlington.

Leaving tho Eubl and arriving at Chicago or Indianapolis, how shall we reach the West? 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 Burlington Route. Tho main lino of the Route running to Omaha, connects with the great Pacific Roads, and forms to-day the leading route to California. The Middle Branch, entering Nebraska nt Fluttsmoulh, passes through Lincoln, tho Capital, and will thisye.ar be finished to Fort Kearney, forming tho shojtest route across the Continent by over 100 miles. Another branch of the B. & M.., diverging at Red Oak, falls into a line running down tho Missouri through St. Joe to Kansas City, and ull Kansan. Passengers by this route t® Kiuusas, 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 towns ‘‘highgleaming froin afar”—its troe-fringed streams —its rough biutTs and quarried —its corn-oceans stretching over the prairies further than eye can reach. Laud-buyers will bo sure to remember it, for they have friends among the two thousand who have already bought farms from Geo. S. Harris, tho Land Commissioner of the B. & M. R. R.at Burlington, lowa, or among the four thousand home-eleaders and pre-emptors who last year filed claims in the Lincoln land office, where ‘‘Uncle Sam is ricli enough to give us all a farm.”