440 AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES. 



These illustrations of the capacity of the Scandinavian races 

 for complete assimilation with the great body of the American 

 citizens, whether we employ them in the arts of peace or war, 

 are offered in the hope that efforts will be made to attract them 

 to this coast. 



The statistics of the nationalities represented in the State 

 prisons of the Northwest show how rarely the dangerous classes 

 of society are recruited from the Northmen; while the statistics 

 of production for the last twenty years prove what enormous 

 additions they have made to the wealth of the country. A few 

 flourishing Norwegian colonies in our lumber counties, or our 

 dairy counties, would give a new aspect to the labor question in 

 this State. 



The women, who like out-door work as well as the men, would 

 cover many an acre with trees and vines, and we should find 

 other use for our flax than burning it. The men make excellent 

 sailors. In Europe they are rapidly developing in the direction 

 of the fine arts, especially in landscape painting. The love of 

 music is almost universal with them. One cannot find an emi 

 grant s hut without its cheap edition of their poets. 



Distributed by nationalities, the immigration into the States 

 of the interior has been pretty equally divided between the Ger 

 mans and Scandinavians. But the Germans swell the popula 

 tion of the cities rather than the country. The Irish, to whom 

 we are so much indebted for our internal improvements, and 

 each of the other nationalities, have laid our country under 

 obligations she will repay a hundred fold; and in thus em 

 phasizing the Scandinavian, we would not be understood as 

 depreciating the others. More space than we can here afford 

 would be required to present, even in outline, the features of 

 Germany in America, as has already been done by Frederick 

 Kapp. The average valuation of the Scandinavian emigrants, 

 including the amount of money brought with them, has been 

 estimated at one thousand one hundred dollars each; justifying 

 the policy of establishing State Bureaus of Immigration, whose 

 officers are charged with the duty of faithfully presenting the 

 advantages of different sections through printed information 

 and responsible agents; of securing desirable land for occupa 

 tion, and guarding settlers from the thousand impositions to 

 which they are otherwise subjected. 



Thirty-three per cent, of the population of the entire Pacific 



