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Show BIGGEST YEAR FOR IMMIGRATION HERE CHICAGO, April 2. Railroads west o Chicago received in 1906 a total of $1,-1 260.677 for the transportation of ImmlJ grants, the largest sum distributed in tha history of the Western Immigration' bu- reau. Reports of the year's business have been sent to the various bureaus by E. E. MacLeod, chairman of the Western! Passenger association. It Is shown that in 1906 the greatest number of ImmlJ grants in any one year came to thi country, the number being 1,185,268, and, that the bureau headquarters In New-York New-York ticketed the greatest number in Its history'. 94,507. |