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RECREATION. 



THE PAST AND THE PRESENT 



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is Oldest Iiihabit^t oifThe 





THE OLDEST INHABITANT ON LINE OF UNION PACIFIC 



The oldest inhabitant — admire him! The last 

 of his race— what pity! King of his kind — mighty, 

 majestic! 



He has braved the mountain torrents. He has 

 laughed at heaven's deep rolling thunder. His 

 eyes have given responsive fires to the lightning's 

 flash. The tornado has only combed out to fine- 

 ness his shaggy mane. In protection of his kind 

 he has hurled splendid defiance at his cruel foe- 

 man — man. 



He is a type par excellence in the animal king- 

 dom; type of courage, power, nobility. For cen- 

 turies he has dominated plain and mountain, for- 

 est and canyon — free, fearless. 



Before the Indian, the scout, the pioneer, the 

 settler — he was. He has witnessed all their ad- 

 vances, encroachments, innovations, while he 

 fought for life, land, liberty. The territory was 

 his, his sacred heritage, and he battled for it as 

 the primal, rightful and superb aboriginee. 



But man is unfeeling, selfish, destructive, when 

 nature, animate or inanimate, stands in the way of 

 his enterprise and enrichment. And so the ani- 

 mal ruler of the wide, wild western world was 

 hunted, driven back and brought to the verge of 

 extermination. 



It would challenge the fine artistic talents of a 

 Rosa Bonheur to portray the qualities and nobili- 

 ties of such a matchless specimen of the beast 

 creation, and then his melancholy yet defiant 

 grandeur as he witnessed the merciless extinction 

 of his race. 



Man, however, is conquerer, and time is the 

 paramount consideration. Time is health and 

 wealth, and to time everything succumbs. The 

 Buffalo, the primal "Lord of the Land," has been 

 driven back to his animal fastnesses in obedience 

 to the law of advancing civilization and the im- 

 perative demand of time, the speediest time. The 



railroad meets the demand of time, and, specifi- 

 cally, the Union Pacific meets the demand of the 

 speediest time. 



Formerly the race across the great western 

 portion of the continent was by the horse and 

 the caravan. But something better was to come. 

 Over twin lines of steel, climbing peaks, thread- 

 ing canyons, covering vast plains, came the first 

 engine of advancing civilization with its human 

 freightage in eager search of the one supreme 

 goal — life and prosperity. But still the best had 

 not been attained. 



How weary the caravan! How tedious the early 

 railway passage over the great western world. 

 The culmination, however, was to come — has 

 come. 



And this widely coveted zenith, this supreme 

 desideratum of man and object of man's search, 

 is here. How so? By a Union Pacific train 

 reaching Salt Lake City in twelve hours, San 

 Francisco sixteen, and Portland sixteen hours 

 ahead of all competition. No exception to this, 

 mind you. You leave Omaha at 9:40 a. m. to-day, 

 are thousands of miles away, in Salt Lake City 

 at 3:05 p. m. to-morrow, San Francisco 5:25 p. m., 

 and Portland 4:30 p. m. the next day, Los 

 Angeles the day after. 



Extinction — resurrection! If it means ex- 

 tinction to one of the noblest types of the animal 

 kingdom, it also means a resurrection to man who 

 was made lord of that kingdom; a resurrection 

 into a wider, grander sphere of development, use- 

 fulness and higher civilization. 



The law of compensation and of higher compen- 

 sation obtains. The merely animal gives way to 

 the diviner human; and the diviner human re- 

 quires the two prime essentials of speedy time 

 and spacious territory to realize its ideals for 

 the betterment of all. 



The Overland Limited" the grfat californu train 



The Only Ele<tnc Lighted Daily Train Between East and Pacific Coast 

 ONLY ONE NIGHT TO UTAH RUNS EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR 



TWO NIGHTS TO CALIFORNIA AND OREGON CONNECTING EAST AND WEST 



E. L LOMAX, G. P. * T. A., OMAHA, NEB. 



