Show lower rates cause increased traffic chicago marh lines enjoyed a considerable increase in traffic tuesday on account of alie clieaf rates in effect for excursions to the territory west of the missouri river the total number taking passage for the promised land footed up about full tickets and a third as many half faro tickets for children in the families nearly fifty families with all their belongings were numbered with the big crowd the home hunters and speculators did not all go over one road but selected their routes without restriction as the rates were alic same over all line allany of the parties were from points cast of chicago but the majority were from this city in addition to the business from here all the roads eold hundreds of coast tickets from points on their lines in northern illinois iowa and minnesota one road the rock island had a full carload out of chicago bound for san francisco portland and other water front cities the following figures show efio way the movement was divided among alie principal competing lines rock island pacific 60 chicago northwestern 55 northern pacific 51 great northern 50 chicago burlington quincy 45 union pacific 20 chicago milwaukee st paul 33 wisconsin central 25 great western 15 total in addition to tha above a number boarded alie through trains from point borth and west of chicago it was tha first excursion run from this territory to pacific coast points another one will he run on march 21 on date the days record will probably bo beaten as the railroads did not have time to sufficiently advertise the first excursion the rate which partly inspired the rush was an extremely low ono round trip tickets from chicago to alie coast were sold at against A regular fare of about and the one way transportation por tation was eold at against the ordinary fare of |