The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-12-14

On tne nOrCnern e0ge OF the United
States band Of explorers has cut its
way through the forests to the peak
of the Rocky mountains, marking the
boundary line of the United States
with Canada. The old stone monu-
'ments, placed years ago and hope
lessly buried in the tangle Of noun
tain underground; have been recoy.
cred and new ones set in their places.
Wherever the line runs through wood
ed sections, q lane of clearing has
been chopped up one side of the noun
tain and down the other. Along the
Yukon river the civil engineers with
transits and plumb bobs have been
locating the 141st meridian of longi-
tude. The basis for, all future land
surveys In the valley Sof. one of the
greatest rivers In the world, Is being
laid there now !.
Corporations,
Each aspect Of this work comes aun-
der some one Of the sixteen bureaus
OF the department. They cover every
thing. In the bureau Of corporations,
The proper control OF the great indus
trial and financial forces of the 5coun-
try ID The absorbing problem. Assys-
TEN of !tatutoEH publ islty ny which
60 = sbe resSaitad. tn rs.
port the essential fasta or thalrs.or.
Etnixati6f IND eonQi ri d: q iefStSd.
This most be, done by the fedpraI. gov
ernnient, Secretary Nagel helteyes and
his report says any attempt to solve
the problem through state action will
be futile, because no number of states
can ever agree on establishing and
maintaining one system.
The bureau Of immigration shows In
cold figures that the longer the
stranger stays in the United States,
the more unlikely he. Is to 60 away.
There has. been during the year an
increase In the immigrant population
of the. United States of more than
100000. More than quarter Of q
million immigrants vent back home
and 100000 of them had been here
less than five years.
There were only 1000 departures
OF those who have been here twenty
years. The statistics show it. Is the
unskilled Immigrant who is the bird
of passage and that the mechanic and
the artisan stay in their new homes.
The effectiveness of the immigra-
ton limitations agreed upon between
the government and Japan is demon
strated in the reports which show that
of 1854 Japanese who applied for ad-
mission to the country, 2,432 had the
proper passports from their home gov
ernment and only 212 were debarred..
In the division of naturalization, 1t
is shown that 1922 aliens applied
for citizenship papers, which was
more than 5000 over the number of
applicants during the fiscal year pre-
ceding..
The magnitude Of the foreign COM
merce Is amazing. The total value 0f;
imports was more than 81, 300. .000, 600.
The value of exports was more than
81 600, 100000, During the year more
than 100000 bulletins from the
bureau Of manufactures carried the
news Of business opportunities from
the corners of the earth to American
capital and labor.
The bureau Of navigation shows
that we build fewer steel ships for
foreign trade than we did ten years
ago, because our shipbuilding is con-
fined to the needs of coastwise and
domestic transportation. During the
fiscal year 1909 our shipyards built
only 1,247 merchant vessels with tom
mage of 23S,09O, the smallest product
since 1898.
The protecting waves of the wire
less telegraph have spread themselves
over the sea and formed a life net.
or 2S2 steamships that carry steerage
passengers to sand from the UNITED
States, half have been equipped with
wireless, and the proportion un-
equipped is q small figure. The main
lard ~ A1oakaA thn YYuiko<l d<okn.