Show STRN IMMIGRATION Sttemet of Business Done ByRoads By-Roads Running Wet Chicago March SWester lines enjoyed en-joyed a consIderable Incree In traffic Tuesday on account oC the cheap rte In effect for homeseeker excursions to the territory west ot the Missouri rIver The total number taking passage for the promised land footed up about 356 I I full tickets and a third as may half fare tickets for children In the fam ie early frt families wIt all theIr belongIng were numbered with the big crowd The homehunter and speculator did not all g over one road but selected their routes without restriction as the rates were the sae over all lines Many of the pates were from points east of Chicago but the majority were from thIs city In additIon to the business from here all I of the roads sold hundreds of coat tickets from points on their lines In northern Illinois Iowa and Minnesota lOne road the Rock Iland had a full roa I carload out of Chicago bound for San I Francisco Portland and other waterfront water-front cItes The following figures shy the way the movement was divided I among the principal competing lines ChIcago Rock Island Pacific 60 ChIcago Northwestern 55 Northern Pacific 51 Great Northern 50 Chicago Chi-cago Burlington Quincy 45 Union Pacific 20 Chicago Milwaukee St Paul 3 Wisconsin Central 25 Great ester 15 total 356 In addition to the above a number boded the through trains from points north and wet of Chicago I was the first homeseekers excursion ever run from this territory to Pacific coatI pInts Another one will be run pn March 21 on which date he das record rec-ord will probably be beaten a the railroads did not have time to sufficiently lenU advertise the frt excursion The rte which party Inspired the rush was an extremely low one Roundtrip Round-trip tickets from Chicago to the rat were saId at 6350 against 1 regular fare of about 10 and the one way transportation was sold at 3750 against the ordinary fare of 6150 |