Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1882 — Foreign Immigration. [ARTICLE]

Foreign Immigration.

A New York telegram says: Superintendent Jackson, of Castle Garden, reports that during the first six months of the present year 278,342 immigrants landed At this port lhe avowed destinations of these newcomers in the West were as follows: Arizona 16; Arkansas, 416; Colorado, 1,252; 2,355; Dakota, 2,107; Indiana, 3,5-12; Illinois 33,834; Idaho, 8; lowa, 11,546; Kentucky’ 777 ; Kansas, 2,209 ; Michigan, 12,690; Missouri, S,(MX); Minnesota, 14,287Montana, 158; New Mexico, 31; Manitoba 280; Nebraska, 4,458; Nevada, 124- Ohio’ 14,6’3; Oregon, 159; Utah, 798; Wisconsin’ 15,2:12; Washington Tierritory, 38; Wyoming Bn); Indian Territory, 2. The greater porl tlon of these immigrants proceeded directly to the West, and comparatively few went either to the South or to New England. Although the avowed destination of nearly 160,000 was New York State, only a sru i.ll proportion of them have settled in this vicinity. ly——a Tre ordinary employment of artifice is the mark of a petty mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover himself in one place, uncovffs himself in another.— La Bochefoucauld. s