The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-15
Thousands Of Immigrants VIII
Come to Helena During the
Present Year.
North Dakota and Montana Will
Catch the Big Business of
Fla 1852.
The Newcomers Are Well-to-d0 People
From the Middle states, CanadA
and Europe.

There is going to be a big emigration to
the northwest this seaaon. 1t has set in
already and by June l will DO in full tide.
Washington will not get as many new set
tiers as 1t has for the past three seasons,
but the greater part OF the newcomers will
locate In North Dakota and Montana. Al
ready largo numbers have passed through
st. Paul and the railroad people say it will
continue through the whole season. The
first colony. composed OF Hollnnders, ar
rived in the Gallatin valley about three
weeks ago, and they will be followed by
several hundred of the same thrifty people,
some locating in this county. Ihe big
crops throughout the northwest last reason
have helped to attract attention again in
this direction, and the tide which hat
seemed to hold people away from the north.
west for several years and carry them il
another direction has been diverted. TIL.
two northwestern railroads, which have
made special and systematic efforts to adyer
t1se the northwest and attract immigration
are the Great Northern and tho Northern
Pacific. Taking advantage OF the good
crops, and the prospect that the big har-
vests will be continued during this and fol
lowing years. these roads have syatemati-
sally set to work to diffuse exact and truth
ful information concerning the northwest
throughout the e%aatern, middle and south
ern states, Canada and Europe.
At the Northern Pacific there is a busy
time in the advertising and immigration
departments. Fine maps and descriptive
folders and pamphlets Of all the territory
contiguous to that line have been prepared
and scattered broadcast throughout the
east and Europe. Some idea of the adver-
Using may be gained from the fact that the
leading magazines Of Great Britain, and
many Of the most widely circulated papers
Of France and Germany contain advertise
mentS of the Northern Pacific. Thousands
OF people who read those advertisements,
send for further information, and it il sent
without stint.
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 Pacific carried 1000 people
from the Red river valley and points west
going east to spend the winter. and they
all acted rs nrst-class advertising agents.
The Northern Pacific officials say the
states furnishing the most of their immi-
grants are Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, In
diana, Iowa, Illinois n Missouri. The
latter state has furnished a very large num-
Der. Canada. as stated, has sent a largo
quota, and the foreigners. who compose d
good proportion Of the whole, come mainly
from Norway. Sweden, Holland. Germany
and Great Britain. The destination OF the
immigrants is western Minnesota, North
Dakota and Montana, the larger PROVO y
ton stopping in Minnesota and North
Dakota.
The Northern Pacific ticket Office at St.
Paul reports more tickets sold for points
not further west than Montana than have
been sold during the same period in four
years.
The Great Northern has distributed
thousands of copies of pamphlets and
papers giving specific and undoubted in
stances of what has been lone by farmers
and settlers in the northwest. Already fifty
six large sacks of printed matter nave been
mailed. Each sack contains about 800
packages, SO that q, 5000 people have received,
or will shortly receive information about
the northwest. And doubtless more than
as many more people have seen what has
been sent to their neighbors. This work
is still going on. about three sacks of mail
is being sent out every dag. AS a
result of this advertising there
is a constant stream of Immigrants
pouring into the northwest, every train
that leaves st. Paul bearing lts contingent
of settlers. Western Minnesota and the
Dakotaa are said, by the officials of the
Great Northern. to get most of the settlers s,
while q good many go to Montana. Can
ada furnishes q good many of them, but
the largest number come from Michigan,
Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri. In addition
to these there is a large number Of foreign
era, coming mainly from Scandinavia and
Great Britain.
As an indication of what is being done,
the Great Northern ticket office at st. Paul
reports three times as many tickets sold
this year rs were sold during the same
period last year.
The officials of both roads say they oan
give no estimate of the number of immi-
grants they will carry during the yenr, but
that the traffic is heavier than it has been
for six years.
One noticeable feature OF tho immipra-
ton is the fact that tho larger number of
the new settlers take considerable money
with them to their new homes. For in
stance, it ia said that most of the hmm
grants from Iowa, who have been passing
through st. Paul i'll large numbers, eold
their posses ,ions there for from 5000 to
a12, 900 each, and they are taking this
with them.
If you need a baby carriage go to tho Bee Hive.
You can buy them as low as So so.