Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1871 — Burlington. [ARTICLE]

Burlington.

Leaving the East and arriving at Chicago or Indianapolis, how shall we reach tlie West? The beet’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. The main line of the Route running to Omaha, connect* with the great Pacific Roads, and form* to-day the leading route to California. The Middle Branch, entering Nebraska at Plattsmoulh, passes through -Lincoln, the State Capital, and will this year be finished to Fort Kearney, forming the shortest route across the Continent by over 100 miles. Another branch of the B. &, M., diverging at Red Oak, falls into a line running down the Missouri through St. Joe to Kausus City, and all Kausa*. Passengers by this route to Kansas, »ee Illinois, Southern low* and Missouri, and, by a slight divergence, can see Nebraska also. Lovers ol fine views should remember the Burlington Route, for its towns “highgleaming from afar”—Us tree-fringed streams —its rough bluffs and quarries—its corn-oceans stretching over the prairies further than eye can reach. Lnnd-bu vers will be sure to remember it, for they have friends umoug tlie two tliousaiuf who have already bought farms from Geo. S. Harris, tlie Land Commissioner Ci the B. & M. R. Iti at 'Burlington, lowa, or among tlie four thousand home-sU-adors and pre-emptors who lust your filed claim* in the Liucolu land office, where “Uncle Sam is ricii enough to give us all a farm."