IMMIGRANTS FOR VICTORIA.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 956, 25 October 1910, Page 5

IMMIGRANTS FOR VICTORIA.

■'■■■■'■■■ .'~~^~~*r- ——' ■'.'■'•'-■ V .AMERICAN FARMERS TO COME.:;.' By relegr«ph-Pres3AESoclatlon-<)oErrielii; '; : '-.- •';,'.'(Eeb.; October,'24 r 10.40 p,m.) : .;;; : ; : New; York/ Ootober"24i;« : ■; Tho tour of the Victorian. agricultural delegates— Messrs. H. ! M'Kj;nzie. (Minister for Lands) and Dr. tion; expert)—has attractedikeen interest; in'tho irrigated .State. ; : {; ' They, expect' to secure a|-considerabW, number of experienced irrigationists with capital.- for Victoria,,'"-.; , ,:.' \.■X'X;-. '';-'!"

X - iIMMIGRANTS; TOTH MOlWr^V;,;;;!.' . To-day, the United-. States, is; prpbabb , ; • the best immigration-field .(says'.the- ■ "Sydney 'Morning .Herald''), ' tliat . • Aus-. :' , tralian immigration -'.agents could •' tilL There thoro are thousands', :oL:hustling--'' .-- farmers with ■ some capital eager ''tdVfina, <'. ■'< wider 6cope for their'activities!' At-.pr'e-' : - : sent, Canadn is-getting' most; of■ these'.'' ' More than 12,000 American citizens,',with -'.','■' from. lOOOdol. to. SOOOdol. : each, practically • "• all farmers and the heads HI fauiilies, e.xr ;• ' patriated themselves between March'3lj ;' 1909, and March 1,1910; 'They went frohi ']'','■• all. parts of'the States; but pari '• ticulatly from theimiddlo west, to takej.np'■;.'■; Government homesteads in Canada. 'The ■ ! . full number, of persons who went from the ■■-.. .TJnitcd States ,to Canada in: this '.period'" '<■) :was 93,870. ' Those' figures weroilcompiledas; tho result• of ■an investigation''-ivliicK.' has just been com])loted by Commissioner-v. ; General of Immigration'- Keefe.. InvestigarV - tion- discloses the .fact, that 'the' best .typo) ■ of farmers 1 of the middle.'west were!'.those',;,. who were selling out and.tdking:'-'their'\\ : . : money to.Canada, there to take up fertile :j : ." Government land., Tlio.Bureau of .Immiv gration estimates ' that- tho amount of money' taken from the United Slates by v "' tho. 93,870 persons averages . IOOOdoL to ia : man, this being, it is said, ; a' cpnservativo '. , : estimate." In tho period, therefore,'^from • March 31,. 1909, to March 1, 1910, tho sum ; -"-' of jei5,000,000 was taken into Canada. The ~: investigation also disclosed that since March 31, 1897, down to March 31,'. 1309, 425,460 persons left the United States to ;'■■'■'. reside in Canada.permanently.';',-If they"'-.,-..-' took with them the samo average amount■■■■; as those, who left between if arch 81, .1909, ; and March 1, 1910, they took i£85,000,000. In all, therefore, the emigrants have taken; - into Canada .£104,000,000 since 1897, prac-'; s '' tically all-in'gold,', 0f..-the 95,370 persons !" - who loft in thd. last yqar' 57j5i8 ivero. i Amorican -botu. and 37.791, wore aliens.■"■'■-'•