Railroad Map - Port Arthur Route Uncle Sam and Search Light - Hornbeck 1896

Old Railroad Map - Port Arthur Route, Uncle Sam and Search Light 1896 - This is an exquisite full-color Reproduction printed on gloss paper or art paper.
The following towns are featured: while trying to locate the Schomburgk line in Venezuela, UNCLE SAM, with his search light, makes a most wonderful discovery in his own domains. He discovers that the country through which the great KANSAS CITY, PITTSBURGH, & GULF RAILROAD (THE PORT ARTHUR ROUTE) is now being constructed is the best all-round country on his continent. He is now showing his children, who live in the treeless, blizzard-swept plains of the North and Northwest, the NEW SOUTH in all her beauty and freshness, where the people are opening their arms and imploring these erring children to move theirs - THE PROMISED LAND. This beautiful region is the HAPPY MEDIUM, situated as it is in the center of this wonderful country, neither too far south nor too far north, nor too low nor too high; average elevation above the sea level, 1,400 feet; where winters are mild and summers cool; where malaria and mosquitoes cannot exist; where
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