Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-01-04
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IMMIGRATION TO THE U. S.
DOES MT ~ IT,.
During the Year 1907, 1,2s5,349 Souls
Landed Here-Great Increase Over
Previous Records = Thousands of
Japs Landed in Mexico and Finally
Got Over the Line.

immigration to America during the
year ended June &c. 1907, was vastly
greater than in any previous year of
the history of the United States, ac-
cording to the annual report of Frank
P. Sargent, commissioner general of
immigration and naturalization, which |
has been made public. Of this great |
flood of immigration Commissioner |
Sargent says:
IAN army of 1,285,349 souls, drawn
hither by the free institutions and the
marvellous prosperity of our country
the chance here afforded every honest
toiler to gain livelihood by the sweat
of his brow or the exercise of his in
lligence-surpasses in numbers the
record of all preceding years"
The immigration for 1907 exceeded
that for 1906 by 1864, and that for
1906 of more than II per cent, and
over 1905 of more than rs per cent
During the fiscal year 1906, 12,432
aliens were rejected at our ports, dur
ing the past year 1854, an increase Of
632; hence the total number of those
who have sought admission in 1907,
viz, 1928, 513, exceeds the number who
applied in 1906, viz, 1,113,167, by 1885,
346"
Commissioner Sargent says it is of
particular significance that many i'm
migrants landed at ports in the south
| div ha or md n
pecially to party of 473 Belgians, ex
cellent types of immigrants, received
at Charleston, S. c., having been in
duced to go there by the state author
tiles. The increase of immigration to
the south, the commissioner says. is
directly connected with the growing
+ desire of the southern states to draw
within their boundaries a number of
the better class OF immigrants, it be-
ing considered by practically all of the
f leading men of the section that the
future development and welfare of the
south depends upon its ability to re-
ceive and absorb a reliable laboring
e and farming element Striking in.
d creases are also shown at New Orleans
d and Galveston.
. Twenty-seven countries showed in
u creases and II decreases. The tide OF
: immigration from some of the coun
tries is indicated by the following fig
ures:
Austria-Hungary, 33S,452, increase
. 1894; Bulgaria, Servia and Montene
= gro, 1889, increase, 6693; France
- 9731, increase, 345; German empire
r 37,S07, increase, 243; Greece, 36,580, in
a crease, 1901: Italy, including Sicily
- and Sardinia, 2S5,731, increase, 1851;
Russian empire and Finland, 258, 943
G increase. 43,27S; Turkey, 2O,767, in
u crease, 11.257; England, 56,637, in
n crease, TAG; Ireland, 1880, decrease
- 465; Scotland, 1910; increase, 1874
n China, 961, increase, 1873; Japan, 80,
o. 226, increase, 1891; British Nortl
r America, 1899, increase, 1855
West Indies, 1859, increase, 1898.
Interest naturally attaches to tn,
proportionately large immigration
IL from Japan. While the exclusion law
II have rendered practically null the i'm
Ie migration from China, tho immigra
e. ton from Japan, while relatively no
e great, has trebled in the past year
i This increase is significant, too, be
d cause it mes in the face of the regu
s. lations adopted by the American gov
. eminent with the. consent of Japan
y which was hoped would curtail the i'm
~ migration of Japanese to this countr,
very materially.
Commissioner Sargent presents ex
= cerpts from official reports made to hi
: bureau by inspectors sent to Mexico
and Canada to study the situation will
. special reference to the coming o.
Japanese to America through those
countries. The reports show that thou
sands of Japanese landed in Mexico
during the past year and ultimately
gained admission, surreptitiously, into
: this country Once in the United States
it was impossible to locate them, ex
- cept in the rarest instances. While
- the regulations concerning Japanese
immigra ton have tended to reduce the
q number of regularly admitted immi
q grants, hundreds of Japanese are still
n coming into the country by stealth.