Young folks' history of the United States . GOING WEST. whole population increased from about thirty-eight and aa half millions (38,558,371) to more than fifty millions(50)^557S3)j this being a gain of more than a million ayear. This estimate includes all persons residing withinthe limits of the United States, except the Indianswithin the Indian Territory, or supported elsewhere bythe general government, and the inhabitants of are omitted because they are not regarded asbeing legally citizens of the United States. HAYES. GARFIELD. ARTHUR. 337 Great as this increase has been, it is
Young folks' history of the United States . GOING WEST. whole population increased from about thirty-eight and aa half millions (38,558,371) to more than fifty millions(50)^557S3)j this being a gain of more than a million ayear. This estimate includes all persons residing withinthe limits of the United States, except the Indianswithin the Indian Territory, or supported elsewhere bythe general government, and the inhabitants of are omitted because they are not regarded asbeing legally citizens of the United States. HAYES. GARFIELD. ARTHUR. 337 Great as this increase has been, it is probable that the ^^^ ^v^^ increase in results of the next census in 1890 will be yet more sur- popxiiatioaprising. The facts as to immigration alone are enoughto show that the population of the United nowincreasing faster than ever before. During the five yearspreceding 1880, the number of foreign immigrants intothis country never reached half a million a year. In. ANTS LAXIINi AT CASTLE GARDEN. 1880 it rose to 593,703 ; and in 1881, to 720,045. Theseimmigrants now come more largely from Germany thanfrom anywhere else. In 1881 there were 249,572 fromGermany, 95,188 from Canada, 91,810 from Scandinavia(Norway, Sweden, and Denmark), 76,547 from England,and 70,909 from Ireland. These immigrants now go grantTno^^most largely to the States west of the Mississippi; some ^^J^^^^/to Kansas and Colorado, there to engage in mining or issippi. 338 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. The publicdebt. Resump-tion ofspeciepayments. cattle-raising; some to Texas, where there is an immenseextent of fertile country, under a mild climate ; and someto the new States of the North-west, where the wheatcrop is found to be very abundant in spite of coldweather. Railways are being rapidly extended in allthese directions, and there are already several of thesegreat lines across the continent, instead of one, as atfirst. This great increase of population has been only oneevidence
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