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Show I- I I j Effort Being Made to Turn Tide I to Ports on the Gulf. GOVERNMENT AND I "WESTERN ROADS AT WORK 1 Kii'leei: Thousand Inunigranls ! Lifiuled a I, Galveston in Less ) Than Three Years. I The solution of ih inimiqratiou prob-I prob-I leni lonp: has been a dilhYult one, but cooperation boiwecn the Western railroads rail-roads and the Federril (jovcrnmoiii is i expected in a m ensure to solve the problem. prob-lem. Under a plan being in.-iugu rated it. is believed th:it, tlie stream of immigration immi-gration enn b? diverted from Iho Atlantic At-lantic to the Gulf ports diroet, and ,this is being undertaken because of the lilficulty ot inducing iminipration from ho Atlantic States overland. ! Since a direct, service from Europe was established by the Is'orLh German Lloyd, in 1004, more than 15.000 immigrants im-migrants have been lauded at Galveston. Galves-ton. These have been quickly and easily distributed lo good homes and profitable, steady employment. Hundreds Hun-dreds of thm 'now own I heir own farms. This is taken as an indication indica-tion of what can probably br done to a greater extent and serves to encourage encour-age the advocates of th new plan mentioned men-tioned to ur"e its trial. Other lines have not established service from Eu-r-ne to the Gulf because the. amount M returned freight available was not enough to make it profitable, and also ming to tiie limited harborage (it Gal-est Gal-est on. These conditions at Galveston, how-n how-n rr. have been changed by the recent polling of new lines, connecting that port with the great agricultural areas? of he plains. The produce of Kansas. Oklahoma. Okla-homa. Texas and even more northern -tnfes, has found a natural tidewater ullet at the Gulf ports. Terminal fa-Mlities fa-Mlities and harborage at Galveston are icing enlarged in meet the new eondi-; eondi-; ions. The dredging of Buffalo Bayou, limning north from Galveston bay lo iioustoii.' now under way, will givo 'wenty miles of deep draught wharfagj mi each bank. Two more lines of steamers from Galveston Gal-veston to Hnrope will soon -be in onern-f onern-f tion. The first is planned by Rock Island-Frisco interests. This railroad system sys-tem has recently opened hundreds of , thousands of souave miles of new agricultural agri-cultural lands by its extensions, and is, ; 'hercfore, taking a leading part in cre-iting cre-iting a new channel for tlie tide of 1 immigration toward the States where it is most' needed. |