Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-07
FIGURES A BLOW
 TO EXODUS VIEW Number of Returned Set tiers Shown by Customs
 Reports to be 261.
MISTAKE OF IMPORT
Inaccuracies of United States Re- ciamatiOn Service Reflects on
 Reciprocity Relations.

Washington, D. C., Aug. 6-Reports to the United States Treasury De- partment from customs collectors at all ports along the Canadian line up to July 27 radically disagree with propaganda circulated by the Reclam- ation Service, and the disagreement may assume international import while tariff reciprocity is pending. The total number of American set tiers who have returned from Canada are shown by Treasury figures to be 261 during the period from January l to July 27 instead of 15,000 as 'es- timated'' by the Reclamation Service.
 The settlement of the remaining domain in western and southern states has been very rapid but evi- dently has by no means checked the emigration to Canada. J. Bruce Walker, Government Commissioner of Immigration for Canada, has re- ported the influx of new settlers during the four months prior to Au- gust i as follows:
 From Grept BriJ Jain,-.....-....... !O0o From the Continent of Europe 10,900 From the United States....46,5 ,500
 Easing the net results on the Uni ted States customs figures, which are to be relied upon because a re- turning settler must either pay duty or as a returning farmer declare the goods and chattles he brings back across the line, the number returned are less than half of one per cent of the number of Americans crossing into Canada. Very few of the Amer ican settlers are in towns or cities. The wealth they take to Canada, es- timated at $10o0 per capita, amounts ito a total of $50,000,0oo, the same total which Reclamation Service re- ports declare has been taken to new homes on the reclaimed lands in the United States by basing such esti- mate on $7,500 per capita.
 The crop disaster caused by the drought and hot winds through cen tral and western Montana and across the Canadian border into southwest .ern Saskatchewan threatens an acute hardship among the thousands of settlers who have poured into that 1oe particularly the arrivals of this year. So many of these people are of small resources that good crop this year was needed to tide them over the first year. Aid may be needed with in few months.
 The reports of the Reclamation Service, said to be based on railroad estimates, that a major part of the settlers on the reclaimed lands in the United States are from Illinois and adjacent states and from states still further east, and that the aver age capital brought in is $500, rep resentine a total new wealth of $50,- 000,0O0 are declared ridiculous by the merchants and farm machinery mer who know the facts.
 Across the Canadian line ir southwestern Saskatchewan and ir southern Alberta the situation is nc bettes except where irrigation is done and in the central part of these privinces where moisture has been plentiful and the crops are in satis- factory. condition. William Pearson of Winnipeg who colonized the Last Mountain Valley along the Canadian Northern railway in central Sas- katchewan says the wheat crop of the entire province will amount te about 60,Ooo0o0 bushels this year.
 One investigator reporting on the influx into Western Canada called attention to the changes which have taken place within recent years as a result of new railroad construction He wrote: M. L. Candle, who came from Lincoln. Neb., eight years ago was then obliged to drive overland from Davidson, a distance of 5, miles and only found two homestead CTS on the way. He was then located on what was considered one of tn most remote points from the railroat in the valley. Now he has the ele vators of three towns in sight iron his place He will soon have sta ton on the West All of thes
 points are from five to six miles dis
 tant."