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TRAVEL.

IS ENJOYED IN ALL SEASONS AND BY ALL PEOPLE.

* MEXICO

With its antiquities, equable climate, and accessibility, offers a tour unsurpassed on the continent. Its quaint originality and its peculiarities in persons and customs contrast, perhaps, more sharply with ours than any other country on the globe except Egypt or Palestine. The trip is equally agreeable

OFFERS THE GRANDEST SCENIC ATTRACTION,

AND IS THE QUICKEST AND SHORTEST FROM ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES IN THE

THE COMPLETE

UNITED STATES TO THE NOTABLE

CITIES OF MEXICO.

THROUGH PULLMAN, SERVICE

MAKES THE JOURNEY NOW PERFECTLY COMFORTABLE, AND THE INCREASED TOUR-
ING IN MEXICO HAS IMPROVED THE HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS, AND OTHERWISE
INCREASED THE FACILITIES FOR CARING FOR THE FOREIGN TRAVELLER.

For time-tables, guide-books, and all general information, apply to

W. E. THURBER, G. W. A.,

10 Rookery, Chicago, Ill.

B. W. THACHER, G. P. A.,
City of Mexico.

G. F. WILCOXSON, G. E. A.,
353 Broadway, N. Y.

THE ONLY LINE RUNNING STANDARD-GAUGE

PULLMAN DRAWING-ROOM SLEEPING CARS

Solid Daily Trains Between EL PASO and CITY OF MEXICO.

Between CITY OF MEXICO AND TAMPICO.

SAN LUIS POTOSI, TAMPICO, GUANAJUATO,
GUADALAJARA, PACHUCA, MAKING AN AGGREGATE OF

1846 Miles Operated:

CONSTRUCTED WITH STEEL RAILS, IRON BRIDGES,
STONE CULVERTS, AND WELL-BALLASTED ROAD-BED;

EQUIPPED WITH PULLMAN PALACE DRAWING-ROOM SLEEPING CARS, ELEGANT
PASSENGER COACHES, RECLINING CHAIR CARS, FIRST-CLASS MOTIVE POWER

It offers to the TOURIST or COMMERCIAL MOST ATTRACTIVE ROUTE To all the Principal

TRAVELER the Safest and

Cities in Mexico.

The entire line, excepting a portion of the road between San Luis Potosi and Tampico, is located along the
high tablelands at an elevation of from 3.700 to 8,100 feet above sea-level. By this route passengers not only
escape the heat of the plains, but pass through all the most important and interesting cities of the Republic.

EDWARD W. JACKSON,

Vice-President and General Manager,

CITY OF MEXICO.

E. A. WHITE,

General Passenger Agent,
CITY OF MEXICO.

M. H. KING,

Assistant General Passenger Agent,
CHICAGO, ILL.

J. J. ALLEN,

Eastern Agent,

261 Broadway, NEW YORK.

The City of Durango, the present Western terminus of the M. I. R. R., has about 35,000 inhabitants and is situated 6,207 feet above the sea. It is one of the wealthiest Pacific Coast San Antonio and most picturesque cities in Mexico. It is the centre of a rich mineral district, and is also famous as a health resort, and as the location of a wonderful iron mountain. of Mexico.

A NEW THROUGH TRAIN SERVICE IN EFFECT NOVEMBER 25, 1894, Avoids delays at frontier and junction points, and passengers make but ONE transfer of cars between New Orleans and the City of Mexico. Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars are run daily according to the following train schedule: Lve. New Orleans... 10.15 A.M. 1st day via So. Pac. Co. "Sunset Route."

The inauguration of this special through service will commend the "Eagle Pass Route " to the travelling public as being the most comfortable as well as the quickest and shortest standard gauge line between the principal cities of the United States and the City of Mexico, and other important points.

The Eagle Pass Route" is the only one by which, without loss of time, the tourist is afforded a trip by daylight through the far-famed Valley of Mexico, amid scenery different from that found in a day's journey in any other country. For further information, address or call upon:

C. K. DUNLAP, Gen. Fht. & Pass. Agt., Ciudad Porfirio Diaz,
Mex., and Eagle Pass, Tex.

E. HAWLEY, Gen, East. Fht. & Pass. Agt., 343 Broadway and No.
1 Battery Place (Washington Building), New York.
E. E. CURRIER, New England Agt., 9 State Street, Boston, Mass.
R. J. SMITH, Agent, 49 South Third Street, Philadelphia. l'a.
W. J. BERG, Trav. Pass. Agt., Buffalo, N. Y.

GEO. G. HERRING, Agent, 201 Telephone Building, 7th Avenue,
Pittsburg, Pa.

W. G. NEIMYER, Gen. West. Fht. & Pass. Agt., 230 Clark Street,
Chicago, Ill.

Or any Passenger or Ticket Agent of the Southern Pacific Co.,

T. L. LAFRENIERE, Com'l Agt., 220 North 4th St., St. Louis, Mo.
W. H. CONNOR, Com'l Agt., Chamber Commerce Building,
Cincinnati, O.

J. Y. BASKIN, Com'l Agt., Plazuela de Guardiola, Mexico.
H. M. GIBSON, Com'l Agt., Old P. O. Building, Monterey, Mex.
ARTHUR GREGORY, Com'l Agt., Durango, Mex.

A. L. ROBY, Com'l Agt., Torreon, Mex.
RUDOLPH FALCK, Gen. European Pass. Agt., 2 Deichthor Strasse,
Hamburg, Germany; 7 India Buildings, Water St., Liverpool,
Eng.; 49 Leadenhall Street, City, London, Eng.; 7 Bierhaven,
Rotterdam, Netherlands; 1 Rue au Sucre, Antwerp, Belgium.
Mexican International R.R., or Mexican Central Railway.