The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-10-30
HOME SEEK 3 Rs
NORTH COAST LINES HAM, :
IMMENSE NUMBER
Seventy Thousand the Estimate o,
the Three North Coast Ia.
Canadian Pacific Carried NJ
But States Have the Adv.
as to Desirability,

Seattle, Oct. pa careful estim..o
of the number of homeseekers band,os
by the three north coast lines of III
roads to the Northwest durino ~.
present season places it at about ~ on r0
OF this number the Great Nortbor,
credited with about &C, 900. the No,.t
ern Pacific with about &c, 900 and ~.
Burlington with about 10 900. WV
In an official statement issued fom
days since, the Canadian Pacific Mac
the number of the same class Of t,ou0,
handled to the Canadian Northwos.
provinces at 100, 900, all of whom bavs
been distributed west of WINNINGS IN
the provinces of Assinniboia. Alberto
Saskatchewan and British Columb;o
although there have not been manv
it is said, sent to the latter district
While the figures show that the
Canadian Pacific has handled almost
double the number of settlers to the
districts than have the American lines
yet in the results TO be attained. the
American lines, railroad men say have
the better of their competitor.
Among the railroad men visiting in
the city yesterday was A. P. Furtb
travelling passenger agent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail.
road, who arrived with his family from
Vancouver. For the past month he
has been visiting in the Western Cana.
da on a vacation. In speaking of the
homeseeker business and the classes
found on both side of the boundary
line, he said:
81 am very much afriad that the
figures given out by the Canadian
Pacific railroad, as to the number of
homeseekers carried will have to be
revised. However, admitting that they
represent the business done by the line
into Western Canada, SO far as the two
countries are concerned, the North.
western states, with their 10000 new.
corners, are much better off than Cana
ola with it's 10000.
"The reason for this is that they ere
of different class. The ..homeseekers
who come to the state of Washington,
as we see and handle them through St.
Paul, are men who have been crowded
out of the middle states. Usually they
want to find homes in Minnesota or the
Dakotas, that being very far west,
according to their conception of the
distance. They displace farmers in
these districts and therefore they, who
have been accustomed to Western
farming, come to Washington and
Oregon, where they are soon the back
bone of the country. This is the class
of homeseekers this part of the North
west has been receiving for the past
four years.
"On the other hand, take the Cana
dian immigration. In the main 1t con-
sists of colonization. During the past
season the Canadian Pacific railroad has
handled through Montreal to the Cana
dian Northwest upward of %, 1000 Hun
garians and Finlanders. They have
added nearly 10000 to their Russian
colonies. and 1 should say. makingaa
rough estimate, they have handed
80, 900 to 10000 of other foreigners, all
of whom have been colonized.
"Now these people are of the poorest
class, and very few of them have
enough money when they arrive here 10
supply farm in the most meager way
While 1 was travelling through CanadS
for the past month 1 was much impress
ed with this. The Canadian govern
ment is helping them out to the extern
of loaning them farm implements,
which they can afterwarsd buy, ou'
they have no stock. Some OF these
foreign colonies who have been In tho
Canadian Northwest for the past hVo
years are IN little better condition IMAM
they were at the time they landed III
this country. 49,.
"The class of settlers the Canadian
line is handling, in the main. is q cia0I
the American lines will not bid Tor anu
the Northwestern states have advanced
in this direction much more TIA"
Canada.
"Our line has done large share "
the homeseeker business this year iro'n
Chicago weslt. BY far greater nun
Der of those who have been carried nas
been ticketed to Washington ana 'n''s
fore this state, believe, has done in .hs
in the way of settlement than al
others in the Northwest combineu'
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