Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-14
HOMESEEKERS
STILL FLOCK TO
UNITED STATES
Immigrants in Lass 100
Years Third of Present
Population

1l0,000,000, exceeds that Of all
other countries except Russia, India
and China. This condition is ap-
p3rently not minimizing our at
tractiveness to those Of other coun-
tries who are seeking new homes.
More than three fourths of the
countries from which immigrants
are entering the United States have
already reached their full limit of
the number they may send in the
fiscal year ending with the month
of June.
The Trade Record Of the National
City Bank of New York estimates
that the Spring inflow from the
few countries which have not al
ready filled their quota will bring
the arrivals of the fiscal year up
to nearly or quite the total Of $685.
900 permitted under the law Of
May 49, 1921, which limited the
number whcih may be admitted to
$50 Of the respective nationalities
resident in the United States in
1910. ". W. 4a4
Few from Germany
The principal countries which
have not completely filled their
quota III the first seven months Of
the fiscal year 1923 were Germany,
Great Britain, Russia, Sweden,
France and Austria. As all these
countries except Germany had sent
more than 7-l2 of the possible total,
it is likely that the usual Spring
movement will completely fill their
respective quotas except in the case
Of Germany, from which the arriv-
ais in tho seven months ending with
January were 81, 500 out Of pos
sible total Of $1,000.
This scramble Of the people Of
other countries for the privilege Of
becoming citizens Of the United
States lends interest to the record
Of the immigration movement down
to the time in which the war check
ed the flow of world population to-
this country. That our popularity
as a place of residence had not at
all decreased during the pre-war
years is shown by the fact that the
arrivals Of immigrants in the fiscal
year 1914 which Immediately pre-
ceded the war were 1,218,000 or
greater than many year with the
exception of 1907 when the total
was 1,2s5,000. There were but five
occasions prior to 1914 in which the
total arrivals of immigrants crossed
to the one million line.
Tile total number Of immigrants
arriving in the country during the
last hundred years is in round num-
bers 36,000,00O or about one-third
as many as the present total popu-
lation, and the number of foreign
born persons living in the United
States in 1920, the latest census
year, was in round terms 14,000,000.
The number arriving during the
war fell far below the pre-war aver
age, ranging from $4,000 in 1915
to 10000 in 1918, but rapidly ad.
vancing 100000 in 1920 and 805, 900
in the fiscal year 1921 when the
Act of May 19, 1921, as above indi-
Gated, limited the number which
might be admitted in any fiscal
year between that date and June
80, 1924 to go of the number of
the particular nationality resident
in the United States as shown by
the 1910 census. The fact that the
inflow in he. fiscal year 1921 was
805,000 as against 100000 in 1920
suggests that the total for 1922
would probably have returned to
the pre-war normal but for the so
limitation above noted.
Where Came From
The principal countries represent
ed by the 100000 persons Of for,
eign birth living in the United
States in 1920, were, stated in nu-
merical order, Germany 1,686,00o,
Italy 100000, Russia 100000,
Canada 1,196,000, Poland 1,140, 900,
Ireland 100000, England $4,000,
Scotland 253,000, The Scandinavian
States as group are represented by
slightly more than 100000 persons,
Sweden having more than one e-half
Of this total. The number Of ma
tivcs Of France, Netherlands, Bel
gium and Switzerland is compara-
lively small, those Of France being
but 100000, exclusive OF Alsace Lor.
raine, Netherlands 49,, 200 and Bel
ginm $4,000. sr -r. w ~.
This foreign born population has
distributed itself chiefly across the
northern half of the United States,
the number seeking homes in the
South forming an extremely small
percentage of the total of the H..
00G,oo0 persons of foreign birth iy-
ing in the United States in 1920, the
number in the, entire South being
less than 100000. The bulk of the
remaining 100000 are found in
the Middle Atlantic States, the Up
per Mississippi Valley,s New Enx-
land, and the Pacific Coast. In the
Middle Atlantic States, New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the
number is approximately 5000, 900;
in the Upper Mississippi Valley an.
other 100000; in New England
100000, and in the Mountain
States and Pacific frontage about
One.half million.
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