Excerpt from From the Crescent City to the Golden Gate Via the Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Company Oh! The Sunset Route, surely. Indeed, it is, in my opinion, the only route one should take during the winter months. I prefer it over all the others at all times of the year, even. It is below the snow line, you know, and is built in a very superior manner; it has the most excellent eating-houses of any of the trans continental lines, makes good time, runs through a thousand kinds of country, presenting a greater variety of scenery than any other route, and has the reputation of taking you into Los Angeles or San Francisco on time, to a second, and always without a scratch. It is a marvellously nice thing, my boy, to crawl into your section every night, while skipping across the country at the rate of from twenty-five to thirty-five miles an hour, and feel that same degree of safety one feels upon retiring in his own house. I can see at once, from what you say, that we should make a mistake in going by any other route, at least at this time of the year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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