The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-23
Tide of Immigrants From the
East Has Set In.
COLONIES COME VERY RAPIDLY.
Railroad M~a InIt~ In saying That
Has Set In Towards the Pacific
Nertkw~st-Vas hinxton VIII Get
Her share-Go0d Times In the
East and Low Fares Are Factors.

Railroad officlais wao have visited Seat
tie during the past three or four months
have predicted with a anant,nits that Is
significant that during the next two years
there xill be large movement a. in,ni-
grants from the East and Middle West
states 10 the Pacific Northwest. and Wash
!ngton ana oregoa in particular. Accord
Ing - the prevalent opinion OF railroad
men Of the big iraDsconilnensal lines this
movement has been stimulated by the
extraordinary low rates across the cont
nent, ard is destined 10 very nearly equal
in numbers the immigration of decade
ago.
w. II. Huglbnrt. general passenger agent
OF the Oregon Railroad and Navigation
Company. who was in the city yesterday
from Portland. says that he aomeseekers
of the East have already started coming Ia
the Coast. lie citeS ~ proof the fact
that some sixty families OK E.asteEn.is
arrived iE the state a short time ago ana
fouad homes along the lire Of The Gfsat
Northern and The Oregon Railroad and
Navigation The reports o{ the Northern
Pacific land department saheale that she-
immigration 70 the state Ehiea has been
promised alnos, since the Worlds fair
closed has really hesGu.
Invariably the visiting officials OF the
Eastern and Middle Western roads say
that :he good crops have Set hundreds Of
people IL looking ab0u; for better loca-
lions. ID Il. Ward. special representative
from Seattle ~ ;he Omaha exposition,
ported on his arriya! here that lhs. meve-
nleut OF he Eastern honlesefkerS towards
the Northwest had begun.
uaon,e of ffse fT1sr are toolxfrsr
wards The West with hope HI their eyes
said Nj. Hurlburt YESTERDAY "Ths sec-
ton % The country has the call So 10
speak. The Pacific Northwest has r.
eeiTed a vast amount OF advertising dur
ing the past two Or three years, Tie gen
orally good times prevailing in the thick,y
populated f,ast have made IT possible Tor
thousands ~ sell oui and come West
fhe general inquiry Is 70 The PacifI,
Northwest Washington Oregon and Ida
no siard IN line for great immigration.
The new movement viii BE- greatly differ
emf from that OF i decade ago Instead -
the real estate boomer. the townsit,s plat
ter ana the Speeulafof. we viii have pro-
ducrrs. The immigration MI. n3f come
to the cities in Washington. Il Nill he di-
reetsd TO the immense ard fertile farming
areas of The state.
During ;he next TWO years unless all
signs fail a.si everybody who ought 10
Nest 10 the THREE state. named will he
very heavy. In fact, Ii has ALREADY be
gun. Not many days ago there We're thirty
odd families on train bound for the Neg
Percszs reservation In idaho. They We're
all from the East. Kansas, Iowa am the
Dakotas viii supply liberal quotas Of the
new home builders. one coloYv Of over
sixty people vas turned over 10 th, Graa:
Northern by the Oregon Railroad and Nav
igaIior only a short time age They went
into the Big Bend country Walla WaIia
Yakima. Columbia and Garfield counties
and the Paloi!se country viii all get a
share OF the new settlers. They are be-
ginning 70 move The low rates have done
mere for this section than can be con
ceised except by the people who have been
able 20 watch the situation every day"
Howard J. Ban. az Buffalo general
Western passenger agent Of me Delaware
Lacklwanna Western railroad sat In
General Agent Ellis office yesterday and
listened 10 what Mr. Hurlburt said: lie
Is right" commentei Mr. Ban. THE peo-
pie of the East looking 10 the North
Pacific coast country for the next great
development, in0istrialy and commercial
iy. Travel westbound is going 10 be heavy.
Seattle and Washington do not seem go
far away. We Of the East know this coun-
Try far better than We lid a few years ago
Washington looks prosperous and pro
KTessive. Seattle has improved splendi.iiv
snge ! was here less than year ago The
next swo or three years VIII See wonder