Cochise review., 1900-06-15
THOSE IMMIGRANTS.
Localities Preferred by Many of the
 New Arrivals.
FOur-Fifthx of the Whole Number Make the North Atlantic States Their DestinatiOn-SOme In-
 teresting Facts,


 States, the volume of which was dimin- ished after the financial difficulties of 1893 and 1894, has resumed its former dimensions and is now about 300,000 year. The number of immigrants who arrived at the port of New York dur ing the quarter ending January 1, 1900, was 14,S92. Of this number four-fifths declared their destination to be the states composing the North Atlantic division, of which the state of New York received the largest number. Of these 42 per cent. intended to settle in New York state, 19 per cent. in Pennsyl- vania, 6 per cent. in New Jersey, 6 per cent. in Massachusetts and per cent. in Connecticut.
 It has been supposed generally that the great flood of immigration into the port New York has for its ultimate destination the great states of the west or northwest, in which land is cheap, the returns from agriculture almost immediate and the existing homestead and naturalization laws particularly favorable to newcomers. As a matter of fact, however, and notwithstanding the great extent of Scandinavian immi- grafton to the United States, recently re-enforced by a considerable number of Films, the agricultural states of the west get comparatively little of the new immigration. Thus Iowa, which is the most distinctly agricultural state of the country, and which has long of- fered many favorable opportunities to farmers from nor hern European coun- tries, was the destination of only 300 of the T5,OO0 immigrants who arrived during the last quarter of 1899 and 600 only declared their destination for Minnesota, state which has a larger proportion of Scandinavian population than any other and in which the de- mand for farm laborers for several years has been considerably greater than the supply. To the big agricul- tural state of Kansas only PCS immi- grants went, to Idaho only 1j, and to Oklahoma, No Mans Land," only re- gently opened to settlement under fixed agricultural title to land, only II. That distance from the Atlantic sea- board and the delay and expense in reaching such places is not the true reason of the scanty Immigration to such places is proved by the fact that to California, much farther away from the point of entry than either of them, 1,GO0 immigrants went, while the num- Der to Colorado was 61S. To Delaware, near at hand, only 4S immigrants went, to Vermont so, to New Hampshire SS and to Maine only 61.
 In one particular, irrespective of the character and origin of foreign immi- grafton into the United , States. whether the newcomers be skilled me chanics or untrained iaborsrs, whether they come from eastern or western European countries" qr uniform rule has prevailed among them for many years. It is this: They have, as all their predecessors appear toahave had, aninsurmountable repugnance against settling in either one of the two states of Arkansas and North Carolina. To EAihuhSaS NlS Huol tSi oiiiJ eight immigrants went from New York. and to North Carolina only five. It has been so for many years, notwithstand- ing the fact that North Carolina is reached with comparatively little eX- pense, and that the climate is salubri- ous, living expenses small and the con- petition of colored labor not serious in the western counties of the state, where there is such good farming land. But notwithstanding all this, Arkan- sas and North Carolina remain, as heretofore, at the foot of the list of American states and territories in the preference of immigrants from foreign countries and all efforts to make them more attractive to newcomers have failed. Of the last quarters arrivals. 2l declared their destination to be the Indian territory and two were on their way to Hawaii, 4,OOO were going to Hi nois, 4,4O0 to Massachusetts, 1869 to Michigan and S7 to Utah.