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Show I 1ST IS AFTER - mOHErAIMEBS H Calling attention of the tremendous H movement of eastern people to the H southwest, Will A. Campbell, secre- H tarj' of the Western Development as- Hl soclatlon recently organized at Oma- Hl ha, has sent the following: W "The homeseckers' movement from H Chicago, Tuesday, February G, to the 1 southeast and southwest, broke all H records for ono day, 5,000 people leav- Hl ing on the Illinois Central and the M 'Frisco systems, two-thirds of them H for Florida. The Illinois Central ran Hj flftcon extra sleepers on the Seml- H' nole limited in two sections. Tho Hj Chicago & Eastern Illinois ran sixteen W extra sleepers, mostly to Texas and W GulC coast points." H Commenting on tho clipping, Camp- H boll says.: "It shows how people aro mU, Joing southward and we want to do Hj everything possible to get the west- K era people more active in bringing1 H these pe6ple westward, Ul "Tho condition in Omaha is typical of V how the far south is securing settlers V and Investors. There are thirty repre- M' sentatlves in this city (Omaha) of Hr Florida land companies, and about i Hj half that number soiling Texas land, j H Several tralnloads of household and H L farm goods will leave eastern Ncbras Hj. kn for Texas March l, when they I H should be shipped west." H The organization of the Western j mm, Development association at Omaha j Hr during tho recent land show was for Hji the purpose of diverting tho tide of j Hl immigration westward. The commuu- ! H ication from Secretary Carabbell is H the first bulletin sent out regarding H the southward movement. j |