River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-09-09

The Secretary of the State Board of
immigration, in his bi ennial report,
TO be submitted TO the board in No
vember, will give full statement of
the operations of the Office, during the
years 1856. In speaking of the mat
ter, recently. he stated that the present
exhaustion of the funds of the board
was anticipated as long ago as April
1855, when the board had before il the
question: whether it would be wiser to
reprint the pamphlet entitled, "Illus-
trated Minnesota" a special edition of
10000 of which were published for dis
tribution at the New Orleans worlds
exposition, or to bring out smaller
one for future use. The appropriation
of $4,000 per year being insufficient 10
meet the expense of printing the larger
pamphlet and paying the Secretary S
salary, postage aud other necessary eX-
penses of the office.
The secretary suggested that the lar
ger work would give greater satisfac
ton and do vastly more good than any
dDANA1EDltuts anu AAhlu ttlt tStltiial6 III
had prepared, found there would be
funds enough to print a second edition
and meet All other expenses up till the
first of June, 1886. Ii at that time,
the board should consider il advisable
TO continue the business of the office
till the close of the year, he believed
he would be able to obtain means for
dcfraying current expenses for the re-
naming seven months from other sour
ees and wait for the next legislature to
make up the deficiency. His sugges-
ton was adopted and there were print
cd an additional $4,000 copies in Eng
lish, $4,000 in German and 10000
each in Swedish and Norwegian.
The secretary reports that these en-
tire editions have been sent out and.
had the means at his disposal permit
ted he could have circulated, quite as
advantagcously. an additional 100000
copies. Fully 81 per cent of the Eng
lish copies. and i5 per cent of those in
German have been distributed in the
United States, the Swedish and Norwc-
gian being generally sent abroad. He
thinks the State has derived more bene.
fit from this pamphlet than from all
previous publications Of the board, and
the nappiest result has been the largely
increased immigration hither from the
older States Of the Union, and the very
considerably greater amount of capital
invested here in manufactures and
other industries for developing the re-
sources of the state. 1t has also at
tracted from foreign countries more
intelligent and wealthy class of imi-
grants than could probably have been
Influenced to como by the cheaper pub
LEGATIONS hitherto used.
The secretary has not facilities 10 as
certain the number of immigrants ar
irving, except such as are available to
people generally. 1t is his opinion that
domestic immigration has increased
from 70 to 30 per cent or more since
March, 1880, over any former period.
Foreign immigration, however. has
fallen of largely, meanwhile, not only
to Minnesota but to the United States
generally Besides the pamphlets, the
secretary has sent out during the two
wears a great many circulars. letters,
and papers, and still has large cor
reSpondeuce to attend to. In lieu of
state documents. during the remainder
of this year. he will send to cores
pondents railroad and other publica
tions, and endcavor to satisfy all de-
MAIDS for information that may BIO
made upon him.-St. RaH Journal Of
Commerce.