The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-21
BUTTE News.
RATES FOR EM|GRANTS
Northern Pacific Offers Induce
ments to Intending Settlers.
FARMERS SEEKING HOMES
Railroad Men Believe the Emigration
Business Will This Year Be Larger
Than Ever Before The Jules
burg Branch.

The prospects this year for great
deal of northwestern immigration are
Better than ever before and the north
srn roads are making preparations to
make Montana, Idaho. Washington and
Oregon the Mecca for the homeseekers.
The official circular of the Northern
Pacific announcing its homeseekers' ex-
curson rates was received in Butte
yesterday, and reads as follows:
THE Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany announces that on February 81,
March and March q they will make
one-way and round "trip special excur-
sion rates to points in Minnesota, Da-
kota, Montana, Washington and North
ern Pacific coast points.
THE one-way excursion rate will be
based on one-half (la) of the lowest
first-class limited rate, plus 81, except
that the lowest one-way excursion rate
made will be 81.
THE round-trip rate will be based on
the lowest first-class limited fare, plus
So, except that no round-trp excursion
rate will be made less than ST. This will
Helena, Butte and common points in
Montana, $3.50. and the round-trip ex-
cursion rate $37, and the one-way rates
to Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and all
Pacific coast points will be $26, and So
round trip.
This is the first time the transconti-
mental lines have ever made anything
in the way of one way excursion rates,
and it is supposed that these rates will
be taken advantage of by the large
number of settlers who usually go west
at this time of the year.
These tickets will be limited in Min
nesota and North Dakota to q days.
To points in Montana, Idaho and Wash
ington the limit will be one day longer.
Stop-over permits will be granted on
round "trip tickets, but will not be al
lowed on one-way excursion tickets
The rate to Seattle, Tacoma and
Portland from St Paul will be SIG. or
$52 for the round trip, and to Spokane
the fare will be $3.50, or for the round
trip, SAL
c. w. Mott, general emigration agent
of the Northern Pacific, is Industrious
ly engaged in finding locations for a
large number of settlers who are ex-
pected to locate along that line within
the next 60 days. In fact, all of the
northwestern roads anticipate an eX-
tensive immigra ton into the Dakotas
Montana and the Pacific coast states
The Milwaukee road has been fortunate
during the past six months in securing
the settlement of several thousand
acres of prairie land in northern South
Dakota, although this road does not
own a foot of road in that state
immigration Agent Hunter was in ST.
Paul, says the Pioneer Press, and his
experience teaches him, he says. that
the tide of immigration moves scarcely
five hundred miles at a time. The i'm
migrants who are going into South Da-
kota now are nearly all from Iowa
They went there from Illinois from five
10 ~ years ago, and from New York
they went to Illinois. Hence he be-
lieves that the most effective work in
getting new settlers for the new North
western states can be done west of Hi
noS.
immigration agents of all the roads
agree that the movement of settlers
from the East to the West will eclipse
any previous year. Farmers who are
cubtivating hight priced land in the
Eastern states are selling out and buy
ing Western land for one-quarter to
one-half the amount received for their
Eastern farms, and as result they not
only come West and pay for their
lands at once, but they are well supplied
with cash with which to cultivate and
stock the farm.
Homeseekers' excursions will be run
on March % and 90 and April 3. when
there will probably be a large influx
of Dunkers, who are expected to join
the various colonies in North Dakota.
Thus far the transportation of the
Russian immigrants to the country