The different nations to which belonged the immigrants that presented themselves to the General Emigration and Immigration Office in search of work, during the above-mentioned years are as follows:
======+=====+=====+=======+=====+====+======+======+======+========+====== |Span-|Ital-| |Eng- |Ger-| |Argen-|Portu-| Other | Years.|ish. |ians.|French.|lish.|man.|Swiss.|tine. |guese.|nations.|Total. ------+-----+-----+-------+-----+----+------+------+------+--------+------ 1867 | 360 | 743| 256 | 161 | 104| 33 | 31 | 54 | 171 | 1.913 1868 | 508 |1.093| 358 | 241 | 100| 38 | 24 | 49 | 68 | 2.479 1869 | 620 | 592| 244 | 146 | 119| 30 | 22 | 44 | 44 | 1.861 1870 | 514 | 376| 205 | 61 | 37| 17 | 15 | 18 | 62 | 1.305 1871 | 308 | 214| 106 | 16 | 32| 9 | 12 | 13 | 33 | 743 1872 | 423 | 202| 181 | 44 | 26| 10 | 1 | 12 | 17 | 916 1873 | 606 | 346| 359 | 26 | 27| 35 | 20 | 22 | 39 | 1.480 1874 |1.086| 961| 437 | 16 | 54| 74 | 21 | 22 | 37 | 2.708 1875 | 609 | 402| 279 | 8 | 55| 53 | 51 | 12 | 24 | 1.493 1876 | 453 | 500| 271 | 11 | 37| 47 | 43 | 4 | 103 | 1.469 1877 | 571 | 569| 358 | 35 | 54| 121 | 85 | 34 | 86 | 1.913 1878 | 529 | 492| 208 | 10 | 72| 48 | 46 | 19 | 170 | 1.594 1879 | 387 | 721| 230 | 31 | 43| 52 | 63 | 14 | 46 | 1.587 1880 | 405 | 939| 258 | 42 | 74| 74 | 73 | 9 | 59 | 1.933 1881 | 435 | 646| 128 | 12 | 38| 25 | 62 | 11 | 59 | 1.416 1882 | 370 | 518| 76 | 25 | 41| 14 | 22 | 14 | 44 | 1.124 1883 | 428 | 380| .... | 7 | 75| 18 | 31 | 15 | 113 | 1.067 1884 | 428 | 537| 103 | 12 | 62| 13 | 41 | 8 | 68 | 1.272 1885 | 607 | 916| 98 | 19 | 41| 11 | 40 | 14 | 111 | 1.857 1886 | 653 | 553| 61 | 8 | 29| 7 | 24 | 16 | 32 | 1.383 1887 | 618 | 423| 104 | 26 | 46| 14 | 18 | 34 | 123 | 1.406 1888 | 738 | 513| 176 | 27 | 45| 14 | 12 | 43 | 54 | 1.622 1889 |1.399|6.932| 670 | 78 | 126| 22 | 14 | 41 | 1.164 |10.446 1890 |1.073|7.341| 170 | 14 | 16| 13 | 3 | 19 | 167 | 8.816 ------+-----+-----+-------+-----+----+------+------+------+--------+------
Immigration has come here of its own accord, during times of prosperity; but the government has also tried to call it here by making easier the coming of immigrants from Europe, and their being led into the interior of the country, and also by giving land to colonists or by exhonerating others from all duties and taxes, either direct or indirect.