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Show - , : I Immigrants .Pouring Into the Land of ; 'tie Free. Immigration figures for the fiscal year 1903 seem likely to surpass those of any preceding year except 1882. The figures of the bureau of immigration, : S : i furnished by the bureau of statistics for its monthly publication, Commerce and Finance, show that the total immigration immi-gration into the Untied States for the nine months ending with March, 1903 was 494,425, against 370,575 for the corresponding months of last year. This makes it almost certain that the total Immigration into the United States for, the .fiscal year which ends sixty days hence will exceed that of any preceding year except 1882, in which the total was 7SS.932. |