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Value of Immigrants

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 7, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 8.

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Value of Immigrants

From the report of the chief of the Statistical Bureau of the United States, it is learned that for the fifty-one years ending September 30, 1870, the total immigration has been 7,441,619. Regarding these immigrants as worth $1,000 each, they brought to us $7,441,619,000. If worth $500 each, they brought us $3,720,800,500. The best year for immigration was 1854. It then gradually decreased in 1856, 1857, and 1858, and then began again, and went up until 1861, and then up until the present year, when the number is reduced by war.