Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-04-15
SETTLERS COMING.
Thousands of Immigrants Passing
Through st. Paul For the
Northwest.
Msjoritv Of Them Bound for Vest
ern Minnesota and the 9
Dakotas. sS
Passenger Traffic to the West Heavier
Than It Has Been for Several
Years Past.
They're Coming This way,

They're Coming Way.
ST. PAUL. April For q month past
large numbers Of immigrants have
passed through st. Paul for points
West and Northwest, and prospects are
that the movement will continue dur
ing the whole season. The big crops
throughout the Northwest last season
have helped to attract attention again
in this direction, and the tide which
has seemed to hold people away from
tho Northwest for several years and
carry them in another direction has
been diverted. The two Northwestern
railroads which have made special and
systematic efforts to advertise the
Northwest and attract immigration are
the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific. Taking advantage of the good
crops, and the prospect that the big
harvests will be continued during this
and following years, these roads have
systematically set to work to difuse
exact and truthful information con-
corning the Northwest throughout the
Eastern, Middle and Southern states,
Canada and Europe. At the Great
Northern offices there are thousands of
copies of pamphlets and papers giving
specific aud undoubted instances of
what has been done by farmers
In the Red River valley.
The compiling of this information
and getting it into. attractive form for
distribution cost much labor and money,
Every prospective immigrant whose
name and address was secured had
mailed to him not only some of the pub
lished information referred to, but q
I blank sheet upon which he was re-
quested to write the ame and ad-
dresses of any persons who would be
likely to be interested in the Red River
valley. These blanks, filled with lists
Of names, have been returned. to the
Great Northern Office by hundreds. The
result has been that hundreds of persons
have been. supplied with the informa-
ton needed to give them a correct idea
of the country to the west and north
west of there. Already ffty-six large
sacks of printed matter have been
mailed. Each sack contains about 500
packages, so that 2s, 900 people have re-
ceived, or will shortly receive the infor-
nation asked. This work is still going
on, about three sacks of mail being sent
out every day. As a result of this ad-
vertising there is a constant stream of
immigrants
Pouring Into the Northwest, %
every train that leaves st. Paul bearing
its contingent of settlers. Western
Minnesota and the Dakotas are said, by
the officials of the Great Northern, to
get most Of the settlers, while a good
many go as far as Montana. Canada
furnishes q good many of them, but the
largest number come from Michigan,
Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri. In ad-
dition to these. there is a large number
of foreigners, coming mainly from
Scandinavia and Great Britain.
AS an indication of what is being
done, the Great Northern city ticket
Office reports three times as many
tickets sold this year as were sold dur
ing the same period last year. At the
Northern Pacific there is q like busy
time in the advertising and immigra-
ton departments. Some idea of the ad-
vertising may be gained from the fact
that the leading magazines of Great
Britain, and many of the most widely
circulated papers of France and Ger
many contain advertisements of
the Northern Pacific. Advantage
was also taken by this road to
Advertise Through the Settlers
who spent last winter in their old
homes. During the season of Canadian
excursions last fall, the Northern Pa
cifc carried 1000 people from the Red
River valley and points west to Canada.
These were all actual settlers, going
East to spend the winter, and they all
acted as first class advertising agents.
and scores Of new settlers have gone to
North Dakota and Western Minnesota
as the result Of their efforts.
The Northern Pacific officials say the
states furnishing the most Of their i'm
migrants are Michigan, Wise onsin,
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois and Mis-
souri,. The destination of the immi-
grants is Western Minnesota, North
Dakota and Montana, by far the larger
proportion stopping in Minnesota and
North Dakota. The prospects Of the
Northwest have. not been SO bright in
many years.
X College Treasurer.
HURON, s. D.,.April 11.-Rev. w. q.
Dickinson, Of this city, superintendent
of the Congregational mission for South
Dakota, says that Rev. W.B. Hubbard,
OF Chamberlain, has been chosen treas
urer for, Yankton college. Mr.. Hubbard
has been pastor OF the Congregational.