Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1906 (Heft 13))

W. E. HOYT, G.P.A.
335 Broadway, New York

Over 19 Hours Nearer
NEW DAILY THROUGH SERVICE

IRON MOUNTAIN
ROUTE
TEXAS&PACIFIC
INTERNATIONAL
&GREAT NORTHERN
AND THE
NATIONAL LINES
OFMEXICO

OR
H. C. TOWNSEND,
GEN'L PASS'R AND TICKET AGENT,
ST.LOUIS.

MEXICO

Mexico is a country of so great historical interest,
such magnificent scenery and so entirely foreign in
all its characteristics, and withall so convenient of
access from the large cities of the United States that
it is bound to become a resort for all who have a
cultivated taste for travel. No tourist who has
seen the charms of its magnificent mountains and
quaint cities has returned disappointed. As that
clever civil engineer, artist, author and indefatigable
globe trotter, F. Hopkinson Smith, puts it “Mexico
is the most marvelously picturesque country under
the sun. A tropical Venice! a semi-barbarous
Spain! a new Holy Land.”
The Iron Mountain Route in connection with
the Texas & Pacific, International & Great Northern
and National Lines of Mexico, is the shortest and
quickest line by many hours between St. Louis and
the City of Mexico. It runs over its own tracks to
Texarkana, the Texas & Pacific Railway to
Longview, Tex., the International & Great
Northern Railroad to Laredo, and The National
Lines of Mexico to the City of Mexico. One may
go twice the distance, east or west, and search in
vain for such a variety of scenery, such an absolute
change of surroundings, such marked differences in
the people, their habits and mode of living.
Leaving Union Station, St. Louis, via the Iron
Mountain Route, you arrive at Little Rock, Ark., after
an eight-hour run. From Little Rock it is less than an
hour’s run to Benton, Ark., where direct connection
is made with the train of the Little Rock & Hot
Springs Western Railroad for Hot Springs, the
greatest and most popular all-year-round health
and pleasure resort in the country. Liberal stop-
over privileges are allowed those who desire to visit
this great national sanitarium.
The train then continues on its journey through
the rich fruit farms and cotton fields of Arkansas
to Texarkana, and thence across the Lone Star
State to Austin and San Antonio, which has a
world-wide reputation as a resort for sufferers from
bronchial and pulmonary troubles. It is situated in
the center of the “health belt” of the Southwest,
blessed with almost perpetual sunshine and an
ozone-laden atmosphere, which tends to make the
surrounding country a second paradise for those
affiicted with catarrh of the head, weakened lungs
or similar ailments.
At Laredo, Tex., you cross the Rio Grande
River and change flags, money also, if you wish to
handle the current coin of the realm, but you do
not have to change cars, as the same palatial
Pullman in which you left St. Louis is still with you
and will continue to be until your train rolls into the
capital city of the sister Republic.
The first trip through Mexico is a series of
revelations to the average tourist. They begin at
Nuevo Laredo and reach a climax when the train
climbs to the crest of the mountain which overlooks
the beautiful Valley of Los Remedios, in the center
of which nestle the clustered spires of the City of
Mexico.

C. S. CLARKE, Vice-President.

A. C. BIRD. Vice-President,