The WABASH, ST. LOUIS AND PACIFIC is one of the great railway lines of America, and of the world, and the fact that Council Bluffs is its present western terminus is a matter of pride to all of her citizens.

With its innumerable branches and connections it reaches directly all the great trade centers of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and northern Missouri. It is the shortest and most pleasant route from Council Bluffs to St. Louis, and is rising in popular flavor as no other western road ever did.

The company now controls over two thousand miles of track, and the finest palace cars ever turned out of a manufactory will be found attached to all their regular passenger trains.

Its trains run through from Council Bluffs to St. Louis without change; and from there the traveler over the great Wabash route may also continue his journey to Buffalo, Rochester, Albany and Boston in Pullman sleepers.

For the tourist it is undoubtedly the preferable route, as the main track from the Missouri River to the lake cities runs through the most pleasing and interesting sections of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana-presenting to the tourists eye a splendid and every varying panorama of natural scenery from Council Bluffs all the way through to Toledo.

Thousands annually travel by the Wabash route from the Missouri to Chicago, instead of taking the more direct routes, the fine roadbed, careful management and interesting natural scenery along its course combining to justify this preference.

The shipments by this road of life stock and grain and other agricultural products from Iowa and Nebraska to St. Louis, are now enormous in extent and steadily increasing.

J.B. Gault, the general agent of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, resides in Council Bluffs, and no doubt the popularity of the Wabash route in the west is largely due to his efficient management.

The other general officers are Gen. H. Davids, general ticket agent, and H.C. Townsend, general passenger agent, both of whom reside in St. Louis. J.W. Booth is the company's ticket agent at Council Bluffs, his office being at the southwest corner of Broadway and Fifth Streets. He is also manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company office in Council Bluffs.