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Show SETTLERS WESTWARD BOUND. Thousands Will Seek New Homes During Dur-ing Summer Months. Washington. An unusually heavy movement ofhomcscekors this spring into various parts of tho arid west Is Indicated by reports that have como to tho reclamation service. Trnlnloads of settlers have boon pouring Into Montana, Oregon nnd Washington, and largo numbers havo been seeking tho milder cllmato of tho northwest. Extensive railroad building Is now In progress In Montnnn, Idaho, Washington Wash-ington and Oregon. The estimate has been made that an area of 12,000 acres of land In Oregon alone soon will be nvallablo for settlement On tho reclamation projects In all the states tho influx of settlers Is rap-Idly rap-Idly increasing. |