The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-01
CROWDS THR0NG
STREETSOF PROVO
Army Of Home Seekers Reach Garden
City.
MAJORITY FROM THE SOUTH
MANY HERE AND COMING FROM
THE MOUNTAIN STATES.
Special to Tho Heraldl

nRONO, July 31.-Flare of camp fires
threw shafts of light through the
thickets on the river bottom to-
night, and cast radiance on scanned,
brown faces. Lanterns glowed through
white canvas walls. where long rows of
tents stretched like giant glow worms
in the towns public squares. Men Law
on their blankets. talking and laughing.
in little groups. while their tired horses
munched hay from the feed boxes of
the covered wagons. The rush for
registration had begun.
II came yesterday afternoon, like a
Summcr shower. The town had been
quiet enough all day save for the
Workmen getting ready for the coming
thousands. The streets and sidewalks
We're comparatively clear.
Charge of Home Seekers.
At o'clock. the horeseekers army
came
They thronged the sidewalks in a
solid line from fences TO curb from the
Rio Grande railway station to the
court house square Their covered
wagons stretched i'm a never ending
procession, the length of Academy
street. Their vanguard, the 300 already
here was swallowed M in this main
army.
NiAf heavily laden coaches from the
Rio Grande's Sanpete valley branch
dumped a sweltering. tired crowd on the
station platform, They had come from all
aIonE the line and from points far south
Many of them had ridden two DAYS be
lore they reached the railroad-Oue day
III their farm wagons. another on stage
coaches. The whole OF southern and west
ern Utah was represented The Heber
branch OF the same road brought another
crowd The evening train from the east
brought more.
During the later afternoon the rumble
droning song that kept up late into the
night
Come From All Sections.
The east is well represented here but
the men Of Utah form the bulk of the
homeseelSers. Colorado. wyoming and
Idaho contributing big quotas
Inc I tan men are young, most of them.
on one of the cots in the tent city. or in
hotel office, youll run across a griz-
zled old face But gray hairs aren't in
great evidence. The homeseel1ers now on
the ground will average away under 40
years Of age
missioner Richards, who said this after
noon that this thing was being done for
Selves e men and Who Their want fss ia9 g for them nm
the commons and IN the hotels are made
UP OF Just such men.
FIFTY From Garfield County.
Fifty Of them from Panguitch and
Garfield county marched in A body into
House square and took quarters during
the evening. Every man IN the crowd
knew farm life and knew what il means
to wait for irrigatiug ditch building. They
are looking for good lands on the reserva-
tion. and if they don't get them they'll
go elsewhere, most of them. They are
only one Of several southern Utah dele
etions now in the city.
on the vacant lots opposite the court
house are some twenty odd covered Wag
Ons- They carried men and women from
up Provo canyon and beyond There are
one OF two old-timers in the delegation,
but the others are hig-iimbed. sun
Drowned young fellows.
I've been over pretty nigh every foot
OF it, said one who sat on his wagon
worked back and forth over ali the land
you can travel. Some of it's awful good
and some "A horse can't travel on. But
I'm Willin' to take a chance at il. an SOS
a lot more.
Evidently they We're for about 100 of
them had left crops or work and trav-
eled al day over mountain road to get
the chance