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Show GREAT EXODUS TO WEST IS EXPECTED Within tho next fow weeks the Har-riman Har-riman system will spond a quarter of a million dollars In eastern United States and Europe advertising tho west. The Atlantic steamship lines will put into effect next month low colonist ratos to western America, coincident with tho low fares from September 15 to October 15, advertised adver-tised for eastern United States to Pacific Pa-cific coast points. Six professional public lecturers with moving picture machines and thousands of feet of films, descriptive descrip-tive of the great west havo boon sont out. Two of those men who arc linguists lin-guists have been Bent to Europe and during 'the coming two months will labor uncoaalngly, touring from one center of population to another, showing show-ing moving pictures and delivering tho message of tho wonderful opportunities oppor-tunities of the west. The other four lecturors traveling the United States and Canada are delivering de-livering on an average half a dozen talks a day, addressing thousands of people and distributing literature Placards and pictorial advertisements advertise-ments of the west are being distributed distrib-uted bj the ton In eastern United StateB, Canada and Europe, In one city of southern Russia, Petl, the mayor has boon employed to boost for the west. Railway men prophesy the result will be the groatest rush lo the west this fall tne coast has over seen Never before has money been spent so lavishly in advertising Cal lfornia and the west, at least so far as transpoi tatlon companies are con-cornod. con-cornod. oo |