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Show AMERICANS FLOCK TO THE DOMINION WASHINGTON, Sept. JO. Over X people have none from tha United St a tea to Canada within tha laat tan years, according to a report Just made by American Consul Johnson of Kingston. Of this immense number, approaching a million people, more than H per cant were farmers who for the moat part have settled In the prairie provinces, ant) SI per cent made homestead entries in wentern Canada. The above flrures represent only a por tlon of the total number of settlers diverted di-verted from the western states of the union to the lands of Our northern neighbor, neigh-bor, as the greater percentage of foreign Immigration to Canada waa made up of farmers, many of whom might have been attracted by our- wee tarn hu.de were It not for the more liberal laud lews of the dominion. Tha total Immigration to Canada Can-ada for tha last ten years, according to this report. appro4mates 2.000,000 people, peo-ple, of which number Saskatchewan and Alberta received mora than half a million. mil-lion. Western Canada received some 300,000 more than the e a tern section. The extremely liberal land laws of Canada Can-ada ara responalble for this large exodus from the i'nlted Statea. In the dominion the homesteader Is allowed to acquire title ti-tle after, three yeara' residence, and is allowed leave of six months out of each year. Other land la we, relating to mining min-ing and timbering, are equally liberal the poller of the government being to get the land a Into private ownership and thus create taxable wealth. The Canadian Immigration figures will undoubtedly be brought to the attention of congress this winter as an argument In favor of liberalising our land laws. A large part of the remaining a re an in the T.'nlied Htates still subject to entry. H la believed, can only be made attractive to the homeseeker through a recognition ef the necessity for more liberal legislation. |