Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-01
WESTWARD. BIO!
SHINY CALIFORNIA HOMES AWAIT
ING THE MILLIONS.
Remarkable Figures Concerning
immigration, Industrial
Development, Etc.

Specially prepared for the New Years RECORD
UNION.
The brightest pages of our history are
made luminous with the story Of the west
ward migration of people, their settlement,
and development Of new countries and the
rapid admission of new States into the
Union. As gr at as have been the move
ments OF pc )ple elsewhere within the his
toric period, there is nothing that COM
pares with our marvellous growth and
development during this century. From
10000 we have increased to 100000
From a narrow belt of occupation along
the Eastern shores our settlements have
spread West 5000 miles to the Pacific
ocean, and from the lakes to the gulf
From handful of struggling settlers in a
savage country we have assumed a fore
most place among the great powers of the
world. There is no nation of European
territory whose population equals ours. In
the aggregate of accumulated wealth we
stand NJ the head of the list The value of
the productions of oir soil is greater than
that of any other country III the world.
The value of our manufactured products is
equal to that of any other country. Our
internal commerce is greater than that OF
any three nations of Europe. We have
more miles OF railway and telegraph than
all the rest of the world In everything
that constitutes true greatness, our develop
ment is the most marvellous of historic
time The prime factor in all this I'M
paralleled growth and development has
been immigration, and upon this subject
the following highly interesting and in
structive data is obtained from the Secre-
tary's office of the Northern California I'M
migration Association, the Secretary, DR..
Latham. having cOllated the same from
various official sources.
THE POWER or IMMIGRATION.
The extent to which immigration has
contributed to our rapid advancement can
be appreciated only by reference to the
official records of the country Up to the
year 1860. /, 13S,697 people had left Europe,
crossed the ocean, and then lived here in
every part of our country. In 1870 the
number had increased to 5.567 ,229, and in
1880 the number was 6,S79,913 How far
these people have contributed 10 the growth
production and wealth of the different
sections where they have settled may be
judged from the following figures III Con
necticut, in 1880, there were 1898 foreign
born people, in Illinois 5S5,576, Indiana
Halls, Iowa 26l $50, Kansas 1l0,086
Massachusetts AS, 49l, Michigan 3SS, sos
Minnesota 267 ,676, Missouri 211 ,57S,
PENNSYLVANIA 5S7, 500, Wisconsin 405, 49,
and New York 1,21l ,379. In California the
foreign-born citizens constitute one-tlird of
The total population. The greater portion
of these people, i'll all sections of the
Union, are engaged in some productive in
dustry, contributing largely to our material
and intellectual advancement. 1t is est
mated that the amount of money brought
TO the country by immigrants i'll the last
thirty years would much more than pay
our national debt. Although the movement
of people from other countries to the
United States has been vast, the migration
of our own people from the East to the
West has been on a much grander scale
No sooner were the first settlements made
on the Atlantic shores, than the more ad-
yenturOus spirits commenced moving West
for more lands.
~ THE wHITE-CoVEREb WAGON
That earlier emblem OF growth, and expan-
sion. they spread out over the whole Allan
tic slope and soon crossed the Alleghanies
and poured into the valley of the Missis-
Sippi and the Great Lake basin. In thirty
wears from the crossing of the Alleghanies.
these vast areas east of the Mississippi had
been pcopled, and The caravans Of white
covered wagons "cro crossing the rather
6r,ad t,,, t tb T,t me
In snrrealinq decades tbe CGptineI,taJ ii,
Ia S.I nd t, poo;cil. ST.
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REMARKABLE FEATURE
Observable in these figures is The immense
number of people who have left
comparatively new states III search
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s'"I to-''S 'itg' III 'yo'lt' poIlI
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I''e il''; o'i0.li aue .'oi an" l3''ild
IN, Ia -. ,"i'ii'. eSl neSe
".iueu " ~ s'f''1 Hui'I'e'3' nc" M'lilg
:''iv.iH ~ '''.'' l~'''I, ven tlle
iIs't'eS l" VS. ,'ul'o'uoil'' history IuI-
40 '.-ie' ~ Iao'i i'''.,'',i
~ a ma 10y ii', ~ o.''iu nun
100 800 pe9l'Ic ~ liiil Hu!i'ptI
$500 H"fV ND.I1c II uiH oiHei coluililGS 10
setA Il"IneH "a Hei ii'oItu N'heYS. ihoSe
WI" H;'Ne peeH nolh mere are sun Young;
le ol,Ig ones !rsl Ie'tcIl,ilS nl'lnGoo ana
U,I;rb mas +ni,e,, NJ. 90, born bas tLd-ac,-o
hoc,, ,,,s;,,l, rbe ,.orl, or ,Ln ;,,,,,i,,ra,,t
They have built our cities. towns and vii
lagos, cultivated the soil and covered it
over with beautiful homes, constructed n
vast system of RAILWAYS established nr,r