The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-14
The Immigration Movement.

From the San Francisco Call.
The annual return Of the passenger
movement for lisa shows a. met gain OF
population from Immigration for the year
of aO,GO. This is less than the gain for
any year since 1881 the loss, however. is
wholly i'm passengers arriving by sea the
net gain in overland passengers in 1889
was GS.3OO. In a word, the decreas. rep
resents the cessation of Chinese inmigra-
tion caused by the Scott act. For the past
~ years the average net gain i'm Chinese
immigrants has becn about 400 a year.
In lsss 1O.sO more C~hinanicU arrived than
returned to China. the fears of more
stringent measures of exclusion having
stimulated the exodus from kuanR-TunG;
in lsso 1850 more Cinnamon left san
Francisco for foreign ports than arrived
the western movement of Cinnamon will
continue. and that the Chinese. population
of the state will gradually diminish.
The movement of immigrants ctIriously
illustrates thc growth OF the state in pro-
Deceive energy. In the years of the war
the average annual gain of population
from Immigration 10y all routes was about
15.uD. When the war ended dull times
ensucd and this volume fell oil to- some
thing like 5,OOO: in one year there was AN
actual loss. A. the output of the quartz
mine in Nevada incrcaecd the influx OF
immigrants began To swell; i'm 1sSitiic net
gam tn :t5.OO. From, this there
was a reaction. and il was not until 1s13.
when the Comstock was in full bloom that
esa notch was struck IN is.s. in the days
Of the Virginia and California; in that
year the states net gain was
t5.JD. The exhaustion of thc
bonanzas drove surplus out of The
state and the excess of arrivals over de
parturcs declined year 10y year until, in
1sSD, il was only 400. From that point
there was "a steady recovery, based ON The
development of agriculture and fruit
growing, which carried the met arrivals up
To 4s,OuD in 1853. This large figure was in
part due to- the boom i'm southern lands. and
even IL the immigration of Cinnamon had
not ceased, this year would probably have
shown "a decrease from the inevitable re-
action. The two causes ~nbin appear
to have led To "a reduction of over 10 per
cent. in oar supply al imported human
raw material in u year..
Considering the marked advantages
which California enjoys ovcr Eastern
states i'm point of climate, fertility and ca
pacity tai raise high-priced products. Inc
larry slow. Even IL the ceusls of this year
should show "A population of 1,.sO.OD, as
people expect. the showing will compare
unfavoribly with the growth of Kansas
akd the Dakotas. which are not blessed
with amy remarkable advantages in point
one ar at most two staples tn re-
~ on. There is "A mystery here which il
might bc worth while to investigate. Pos
sibly the resources of the state have never
been sufficiently advertised. IL may be
that the cost of crossing a continent re-
peIs settlers. The advent of skilled me-
chanics has been hindcrcd by fa~llaciotIs
REPRESENTATIONS that there. was mo market
for skilled labor here. Whatever the cause
may bc. the effect IL before us. IL IL evil
dent a at il California is ever to contain
the twenty millions of people which have
been promised, Immigration must take a
start of which at present thcr', are no in
sications.