[209] Laws of Iowa, 1860, ch. 81; 1862, ch. 11; 1870, ch, 34.
[210] Mattson, The Story of an Emigrant, 97, 99, 101.
[211] Mattson, The Story of an Emigrant, 100-101.
[212] Ibid., 99, 102; Wisconsin Legislative Manual, 1895, 133.
[213] See Bibliographical Chapter, under the names, Hewitt, Listoe, and Mattson, for Minnesota.
[214] See Statistical chapter, tables 5, 6, 7.
[215] Kapp, Immigration and the New York Commissioners of Emigration, 146; Mayo-Smith, Emigration and Immigration, ch. vi.
[216] Young, Special Report on Immigration (1871), vii-ix.
[217] “According to other statistics, the average annual earnings of a workman amount to $625, and one may safely presume that every able-bodied workman contributes every year 1/5 of his earnings to the increase of national wealth. Taking into consideration the period of time of a full working capacity of emigrants according to their age, and considering the much less working capacity of females, and the cost of raising the children which they bring with them, one may fairly presume that, during the last few years, not only considerable cash capital has been taken to the United States by emigrants, but that every one of them carries to that country, in his labor, a capital which may be estimated at $1200. The total value of the labor thus conveyed to the United States during the last five years, may therefore be estimated at about $700,000,000. No wonder that the United States of America prosper.” Hamburger Handelsblatt, March 18, 1881, quoted in translation from this “leading trade journal of Germany”, in Annual Report of the Wisconsin Board of Immigration, 1881, 14.
[218] J. B. Webber, in North American Review, CLIV, 435 (1892).