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Show IIOfiESKiilinS PLOCa TO UTJill . ' . - Many lie. v Settlers Coming, Especially to Green River Country Says Ma. S. IL ' Hooper. 1 j easaMUSBSBamsBmss I Utah is receiving her full quota of the westward bound flood of settlers, according to Ma j. S. , K. Hooper, general gen-eral ' passenger agent for the Bio Grande, who will return to Denver this evening from the recent conference of passenger men here. "The cresent rear." said Mai. Hooper, "has been a good year for the settlement of the West. California has received the most' immigrants, but Utah and Colorado have received a good share. The particular point that is at present drawing settlers in Utah- is Green Biver, although the Uncomnahgre eountry and other points are attracting many. The 'influx of settlers : into Green River and the contiguous eountry at ' present is remarkable. : Whenever rates prevail we leave from fifteen to twenty-five people there on aa average every day. The town is growing at the rate of at least seventy-five a month. In five years I predict a population popu-lation of 10,000 for this town. No part of the West is settling tip more rapidly than the eountry in this vicinity. The settlers are mainly from Illinois, Iowa and Missouri'.' . . Mai. Hooper says that between August Au-gust 27 and September 31 of this year 31.800 persons availed themselves of eolonist rates over the Rio Grande alone. The bulk of this great westward bound tide of homeseekers was bound for California. They were distributed from the northern to the southern part of the State. |