Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18
Immigration Statistics.

The report of the Chief of the Bureau Of
Statistics SAYS:
The importance of obtaining and publishing
accurate statistics, not only of the ages, sexes
and ports of arrival but OF the nationalities
and occupations of the large and increasing
number of immigrants, has imposed additional
duties on this division. Special efforts have
been made to induce greater accuracy on the
part of those who originally record the data, so
that the compilations published by the Bureau
nray be full aud trustworthy. The Importance
to our country of this annual influx of for
eign-born citizens requires more than ordinary
care in the presentation of the facts. Proba-
bly, no emgrants from Continental Europe
have been more valued or more warmly well
coined than those who have come from Scan
dinavian countries. As TRANSACTIONS of the re-
port have been published in the German
and French languages, it seems not only
proper, but in a high degree desirable, that
the natives of these foreign countries should
be supplied with information in their own
tongue in regard to the United States.
Yielding to request which has for several
years been pressed with great urgency trans
lation of the report into the Swedish language
has been made, and viii be submitted at an
early day to Congress, with the recommenda-
ton that 30, 900 copies be printed for dstri-
button in scandinavian countries. An urgent
demand has also been made for the transla-
ton of the report into the Slavic tongue,
which is spoken not only in Russia and Poland,
but in Bohemia, Silesia, and NJ Jravia. countries
from which streams of emigration would flow
to the United States if the necessary informa-
ton were supplied TO those contemplating re-
moval from their native 81. The English
edition of 10000 copies, printed by order of
Congress for gratuitous distribution in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
il nearly exhausted, and further issue of
5000 copies Of this report, with q map of the
United States. is urgently recommended. As
the report has been stereoiyped, the cost of
the paper, press-work and stitching would be
small in amount At no period has the de-
mand for this document been more urgent
than at present, and at no time have the bene-
fits resulting from its circulation in that coun-
try been so marked as in the recent past.
The number of male immigrants from En-
gland Scotland, and Wales during thelas fs-
cal year almost exactly the same as in the
preceding one. being 81, 121 in 1862 and 81, IA
in 1871, and yet the increase in the skilled oc-
equations of the adults over 1871 was 2.6S1
The greatest increase was exhibited in the fol-
lowing trades:
Blacksmiths, an increase of 90; boiler
makers. Sc; brick-makers. As; carpenters
$40; ipiDers 534; dyers, %; gardeners, 107 !;
jewelers.. As manufacturers, 90: masons.
726: millers, 60; miners. $40; molders, so !;
painters, 179; plumbers, 50; printers, 81 ;
ssddlers, 80; shoemakers. 1907 spinners,
100: tailors, So; weavers, SIC, and wheel
wrights, IA.
The immigrants from England included
also. many small farmers and some profess
sional and business men, bringing with them
ready money to invest in United States bonds
and in farm stock. Indeed. the inquiries Of
parties who desire to purchase lands, either
for themselves or for small companies Of in
tending immigrants, have been so extensive
as to considerably increase the correspondence
of the Bureau The total number of persons
of foreign birth who, in the year ended June
80, 1873. decided to make the United States
their future home is ass, $685. of whom 275, 1872
were males, and 1s4 oil females, being an in
crease of 81. 997, or 13a per cent. over the inn
migration of the fiscal year Of 1872. The
largest increase from any country was 25 73i,
or Is is per cent, from Germany: while from
England the ercess over fl.> f-o~io..s ye~-
was 5,U37, or Il per cent, and from Ireland
S.712 or 12s per cent. The increase from
France was nearly 50 per cent, being 9,317 in
1872 and IA 795 in 1873. If the average value
of an immigrant, as stated BY the undersigned
in the report above referred TO, be $500, the
economical value of this addition to our popu-
lation in the past year amounts 10 1867, S42, =
400. 1t is respectfully submitted that so
large an augmentation of our national wealth
will justify the expenditure of a sum sufficient
for the diffusion OF such information as will
serve to increase the volume of this tide of
immigration.