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A GUIDE TO MEXICO. 



ROUTE II. 



LOSTON, NEW YORK, or CHICAGO, to ST. LOUIS, as in Route I., 

 thence to City of Mexico, via the Missouri Pacific System and connections. 



(A) 



TEXAS PACIFIC and MEXICAN CENTRAL. 



(B) MISSOURI PACIFIC SYSTEM and MEXICAN NATIONAL. 



A TRIP THROUGH TEXAS. 



While being rapidly whirled over the Texas prairies in the most luxurious of 

 palace or dining cars, we shall be likely to for 

 get, unless frequently reminded of it, that we 

 are crossing the largest .State in the Union. 



Although our ob- 

 ject is sight-seeing 

 merely, j'et as mate- 

 rial resources influ- 

 ence progress, and 

 that, in turn, pro- 

 vides comforts for 

 the traveller, we 

 should not omit to 

 mention, that, while 

 territorially vast, 

 Te.xas also contains 

 a great variety of 

 soil, and consequent 



vegetation; its crops of cotton, cane, and cereiN, 

 being enormous, while its prairies annually sustain over 4,000,000 cattle. Its area of 

 274,350 square miles is greater by over 30,000 square miles than the Empire of Aus- 



(^Missouri- Flic i/ic /\y ) 



