Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-20
LANDSEEKERS IN CALIFORNIA
Special Trains from Omaha Reach the
Settlement Belt.
VISITORS TO SEE SACRAMENTO
CoESens GrasPs Opportunity Pre-
sented by Early Arrival of
Train to show orr His
Home city.

SACRAMENTO. Cal. March lS-CSpe-
cial.)-The tide OF colonist travel through
Omaha. The Gateway to the West" be-
gan pouring out on the lands Of California
with the arrival OF the special tuorist trains
here. The hundreds who passed through
omaha from the middle west and from
St Paul and Minneapolis are now looking
over the broad acres OF the Pacific coast
country
The trains which brought the landseek-
ers to the west was an innovation in tour
list traffic
l. w. Buckley one OF the managing d.
rectors Of the Omaha Land show who is
travelling with the tourists at Triego
writes:
&C. W. Cozzen. known to Omaha Land
show people as the representative Of the
A. G. Roebuck Co. owners Of a Sacra-
mento land tract, is booster for his
dearly beloved Sacramento valley
when he learned from the division sup
erntendent Of the Southern Pacific a.
Elko. New. OF the unexpected early arrival
at Sacramento he at once set about trying
to find out how many of the 200 OF the
passengers on this remarkable tourist
special were for Sacramento and who for
points beyond that might have to lay over
In Sacramento. BY cooperation he helped
TO arrange so that by shifting around in
the sleepers nearly one-haf of all on
board could get chance to see Sacra-
mento.
More than fifty people were booked on
this train alone for Sacramento, this in
Guiding the members OF Colonel B. G..
Barnes party. Ten Of the colonists were
en- route to Fresno. They also embraced
the opportunity OF the extra fast run to
stay a few hours IN Sacramento.
zone Of the most enthusiastic boosters
for California was E. b. Piper, president
Of the Iiwa Land and Development com
pany formerly a farmer and merchant
Of Corning Ia. Mr.. Piper and his family
we're going west to live and with him was
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ Thompson, Charles
Shupe and John Olds. All are from the
vicinity Of Corning.
Last November Mr.. Piper visited Fresno
and fourteen miles north Of that lovely
city and seven south OF MADEIRA he bought
a thousand-acre tract Of land. 1t had ex-
cellent transportation facilities and a
warehouse A depot will be built and
there is now a 1900 pumping plant on the
land giving good irrigation.
" We call Il the town OF Triego and we
are selling it. in five to forty-acre tracts
with many sales already I am pleased to
say. We have placed three families there
now. taking out four more and in October
we will take out ten more families, said
Mr.. Piper I'VE are promised a postof-
flee soon. All OF our people sold their
farms in Iowa and some one takes their
places in the Iowa community. Our rea-
sons for moving are very easy of explana-
ton. was nine times in Canada and
once In the southwest and We believe We
have at last found a land under ideal
conditions.
The West for Poor Man.
Land to be profitable must ben in a
good climatic range and with good trans
portation, also have an advancing profit
future High-priced lands are not for the
poor man nor the small investor. Iowa
land is good, but to the limit for invest
ment. except TO be held as a safe perman-
ent investment by the man willing and
able to hold. have lived seventy miles
from Omaha and am proud of 1t.
81 read The Bee and approve its at
titude towards the up-building Of the city
through the development Of the great trib-
utary west We are not hurting Iowa nor
Nebraska by rendering our humble aid in
In that light. | attended the Omaha Land
colouizing the west and II is only matter
of time and education when all will see II
show and derived much real information ="