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location of a transportation route is as supreme and insurmountable 

 an advantage as is conceivable, and the only course to take when such 

 superiority is manifested is to recognize and conform to it. The 

 Southern Pacific has this advantage in alignment and grade over 

 any other road, and until it is deprived of its advantages by the dis- 

 covery or construction of a still shorter and cheaper route, it must 

 maintain its ascendancy. As these changes are not conjectural, but 

 certain, and as they will take effect within a comparatively short 

 time, our producers and business men will do well to familiarize 

 themselves with the approaching innovations, and especially to 

 make ready to avail themselves of the benefits which will accrue 

 from this great improvement in the means of transportation. 



