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Show Will Advertise West During Land Show Tho entire west will be advertised during tho United States Land and Irrigation Ir-rigation Congress to bo held at Chicago Chi-cago from Novomber 18 to December 9 of this year. Tho Southern Pacific Company nnd other Hnrrlman lines have engaged tho wholo of the Coliseum Coli-seum Annex for purposes of exhibition, exhibi-tion, and ovory town, county, or state tapped by these lines will bo given tho opportunity to show what advantages It may have to offor 10 tho prospective homo seeker. To further this purposo, tho spaco secured by tho Southern Pacific and othor allied lines will bo divided Into In-to lecture halls with moving plcturo facilities, and tho towns and other centers that caro to participate In tho exhibits will bo Invited to send moving plcturo films and lecturers to depict to tho public the opportunities opportuni-ties foi homes offered In the vnrlous districts.' Photographs taken along the lines of the Southern Pacific, depleting de-pleting the post Interesting, phases, pf h me, form, and Industrial llfo, will 3 showu. The Land and Irrigation .ongress has planned to occupy the entire Coliseum nt Chicago, but as ho space allotted to the several exhibits ex-hibits was thought not sufficient for that planned by tho Southern-Pacific for Its western patrons, that company has concluded to secure the nnnox.for the western exhibits. At the last Chlcngo land show in 1910, the Hnrrlman lines occupied the "same space ns Is proposed to be used this year, nnd It was computed that fufly 77,000 people attended the lee hives. On the first colonist excursion following tho last land show, according accord-ing .to figures compiled nnd Issued by the passenger officials of the western lines, tho Southern Pnclflc and Union Un-ion Pacific Companies carried approximately approx-imately !5,000 colonists Into their territory, breaking all previous records re-cords for colonist travel on these lines. |
