Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-04-24
COME TONORTHWEST
STATISTICS SHOW The MOST
PEOPLE GO To FARMING.
Orcharding and Chicken Raising Gets
A Big Illinois, Iowa and
Missouri Furnish the Most While
other Central States Help 10 Swell
the Throng.

Recent statistics show that rs per
cent of the newcomers into the north
west during the fiscal year ended Feb
ruary %, 1909, turned to farming, stock
raising and dairying, while of the 9th
ers more than so per cent toek up or
charding and chicken growing In dis
tricts tributary to the settled com
munities.
OF the thousands of visitors to the
rooms of the Spokane chamber of com
merce since January /, 1908, the ma
iority, including men and women from
all walks of city life, came to the
northwest to seek homes in the rural
districts, not to become general farm
ers, but to take up some special phase
of the work and in the great number
of instances it is fruit growing.
The practice of intensive farming,
more specially apple culture, has, in a
measure, solved the problem of the
American trait of the farmer seeking
city life and the city man dreaming of
rural happiness; and the Dearbees Of
the irrigated districts TO the towns and
cities in the northwest has served 10
satisfy both. Small tracts, electric rail
ways, telephones, rural mail routes,
make a combination Of the best of city
and country, and thousands are passing
useful and busy lives in these districts.
There has been a tremendous move
ment to the northwest in the last IL
months, when, according 10 the best
information available, approximately
LOG, 600 persons settled in Washington,
Oregon. Idaho and Montana, and Of
these about 90, 500 located IN eastern
2 Washington, northern Idaho, northeast
ern Oregon, western Montana and
southeastern British Columbia Thirty
five thousand settled in the Yakima,
Wenatchee, Spokane, Walla Walla,
Okanogan and COlyille valleys, the Pa
louise and Big Bend districts and in set
Elements opened by the Chicago, Mil
waukee & Puget Sound and the 6pO-
Z kane, Portland q Seattle railroads.
Z illinois, Iowa and Missouri furnished
r the ma i0rity Of these settlers, the rest
coming from Nebraska, Indiana, Mime
O. sofa, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mich
igan. New York, West Virginia, Ken
lucky, Massachusetts, Vermont, Ne
yada and Maryland, with a sprinklinl
y from southwestern STATES.
o. There was also q large inhux Of
q aliens into the northwest in 1905, when
] with the exception Of Minnesota, Mis-
/, sour and California, Washington adde'
!. more foreign population than any othe
state west OF the Mississippi river
,, There we're approximately 10000 alien
and u these 6oandinagians sere la "a
p lead, with .s0nth Italians second, tn
% glish third Germans fourth and Pm
~ nish fifth
d The most important thing abe0i inl
migration INTO Washington last year !
that the greatest increase ln numDer
WAS ~ those who engage eltLer ~ pro
iessional 0T skilled occupations telf
ID lively n The great mas ~ iismlefantl
the number III foreigners VI good elae
who declared Washington - lLeir do
a. tinafion Naa lafg~ than ~ aay othe
% state.
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q. WHO enfefed tlf STAT ffes ferelR
b foanfflef lasi yeag naf 80 ~ gop4
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