Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-24
The RUSH IS
PHENOMENAL
Tenderfeet Who Would Make
Homes in the West.
FOLLOW EMPIRES COURSE
H0meseekers Are Invading the West
in Thousand L0ts.-Ra!l-
road Notes.
FOLLOW EMPIRES COURSE

The rush into the west, caused by the
homeseekers' excursions, is much larger
than was anticipated by the railroad men
who are responsible for the scheme. Butte
is only getting a few of the fortune hunt
ers, most of the homeseekers going west
by northern and southern roads. About
SOC stopped off in Butte yesterday.
Three trains, or 40 carloads. in all, of
homeseekers passed Pocatello today via
the Oregon Short Line. They were en-
route to Washington and Oregon.
Speaking of the tremendous rush west
ward, the st. Paul Pioneer Press says:
Landseekers and settlers traffic kept
the railroads hustling yesterday, and it
appeared for a time that the entire popu-
lation of several eastern states was mi
grating west. AT the union depot there
We're immense crowds of eXecursionists,
all trying to get the first trains going
west. The morning train for the coast
No. / of the Northern Pacific-carried IA
cars of passengers and baggage, all that
the engine could haul, and there was
fully a carload left OH the platform. 1t
has been q long time since the Northern
Pacific has been obliged to refuse to car
ry passengers because of it's Overcrowd-
ed train, but this was the case with this
train. There was no room for more. The
regular train, No. 8, with three additional
coaches, pulled out in the evening SINH
larry crowded, and a second section, con-
tanning 10 cars, followed the first section
half an hour later. Nearly all the pas
sengers We're bound for the far west, one
party of SO being ticketed to Washington.
They We're from Michigan. Hereafter
these eXcursionistS will be sent out daily
llp1or tho hn1f-fn1 70 rate which goes mo
effect today, and the traffic will not be so
congested as it was yesterday and the
day previous.
The Great Northern trains were equal
ly as crOWded The morning train for the
west carried three extra coaches out OF
st. Paul, while the regular night tram
also carried three extra coaches. This
train was followed by a second section
of IA cars, carrying passengers for Mon
tana, Washington and Oregon. The 500
also left the union depot with extra
coaches conveying passengers to the IA
cific coast.
A Seattle Dispatch says the presence OF
a number of Great Northern railway OIL
cills and their conferences all day with
Fetcr Larsen, a we'll known contractor, IS
thought tC mean that the long-talked-of
railroad to the Republic mining district
will soon be commenced. The propose
road. it is stated, will be neither a Great
Northern or Northern Pacific affair, but
q utilization of the charter granted to
the Washington Improvement & DeVel-
opment company of Spokane one year
ago.
The q~uadrenrial~ weighing of mails in
the States of Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, Iowa and Missouri will
begin in a few days. A large force of
men have been secured to ride IN the pos
tai car going out of st. Paul for the pur-
pose of weighing every mail pouch that
is sent out at every station, and the post
> office clerks will be busy for two or three
weeks at the same work. Advices are