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Show OVERLAND ROUTE IS THE PIDWEER ROUTE OF TRAVEL Under the caption of "The Origin of the Overland Route,'' the latest Issue of tho Union Pacific Monthly Bulletln carries the following The route of Union Pacific from Omaha was made "by the buffalo, next used 'by the Indians, then by the fur traders, next by the Mormons, and then by the overland immigrants to California and Oregon. From Chicago or Omaha to San Francisco Union Pacific is over two hundred miles shorter than any other line. Union Pacifi? has no sharp curves, no heavy grades, and does not follow a roundabout course to tho Pacific Pa-cific coast. " Double track 765 miles out of 3.000, Omaha to Ogden, considerably more than any other line west of the Missouri Mis-souri river. Union Pacific is the only route to Denver, Salt Lake, San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle protected protect-ed every inch of the way to these cities cit-ies with automatic electric block safety safe-ty signals. The entire main line of Union Pacific Pa-cific system from Omaha to Denver. Ogden, Salt Lake. Portland, Tacoma and Seattle is protected by these automatic au-tomatic signals, which should be distinguished dis-tinguished from manual "block signals," sig-nals," operated by hand at stations often many miles apart. Union Pacific Pa-cific might have saved many millions of dollars hacl we been satisfied with meiely "block signals." The only" line double track all the way from Council Bluffs and Omahi to Colorado is Union Pacific. The same publication carries the following clipping from the Chicago Evening Post, which may be of interest. in-terest. "If anything more remarkable in the line of concerted effort than the efficiency of the "Safety First" campaigns cam-paigns has come into American notice no-tice of late years, we are unable to recall it. "Here. now. comcB the Union Pacific, Pa-cific, which carried S.951.364 passengers passen-gers in the fiscal year ending June 30 without the loss of a single life This Includes not only passengers on trains but passengers getting off and on the trains "The report of the interstate commerce com-merce commission will give the Union Faclfic an absolutely clean bill of health in its fulfillment of its duty to the safety of its millions of passengers passen-gers "It is only a few years ago that the railroad men of England, when confronted con-fronted with the superiority of the American railroads In many respects, would shako their heads and point gravely to the immense loss of life on our roads The challenge was at length taken up by our railroads. Since then, simply by the will to do jt, great rail systems many times as large as anything in England have been able to bring in a record of "not one passenger killed." "This marvelous feat was accomplished accom-plished first by the intelligent appreciation appre-ciation of the situation by the directing direct-ing minds amongst our carriers. But the high officials themselves are the first to say that the real credit belongs be-longs to the working employes. These men in thousands of positions have welcomed with a man's eagerness the responsibility implied in 'Safety FirsL' They have lived up to it. America should be proud of them." |