Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-19 | Page 6 | Thousands Are Rushing Through

THOUSANDS ARE RUSHING THROUGH : t Home-Seekers and Common Laborers Crowd the Trains Colonist Rates Cause Many Extra Trains to Be Sent West From Ogden Over Southern Pacific and Oregon Short Line. . . ,) Durinp the past fifteen days, during which tluic the colonist rales have been in forco on the llarriman lines, lr is csilmatej that more than r.,ni0 home.-leaders have passed through OKden to find now homes on the Pacific Pa-cific const. The last f tho colonist I trains will pass through this city today. to-day. i.ocal officials nf the Southern Pacific Pa-cific line-state that almi t.V colonists colo-nists Imv passed throuph the city every ev-ery day that the rates were on. and that at least &") will be on the westbound west-bound tralnH today. Yesterd.iv there were four extra passenger trains and today the number of extras was Increased In-creased to five. Most of the hi-mrseekerK are coming com-ing west from the crowded Atlantic coa.nt states or from the anthracite coal districts of Pennsylvania. Many of theiu are of foreign birth and nearly near-ly all are of the proletarian class of laborers, coming west not so much with tho prospect of buying land as with the h.pe of securing more lucra-tive lucra-tive employment It is said that many of the travelers are miners who, because be-cause ff labor troubles in the east-i em mining fields, are making tho change of residence.