Imigrants in industries (in twenty-five parts)

Special emphasis was placed upon Japanese immigration by the agents of the Commission attached to the western office maintained in San Francisco. Every industry in which the members of that race have extensively engaged has been investigated, and the results are set forth in the various reports in this volume. Among the industries investigated and in which the Japanese have been extensively employed are the growing of fruit, vegetables, sugar beets, and hops, the canning of salmon in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, and the canning of vegetables in California, railroad work, and coal mining. An investigation was made also of Japanese engaged in city employments and in business in the more important cities of the West. Independent farming by the members of that race was investigated in all of the States in which it has become extensive. Special investigations were made of farming by Japanese in nine localities in California, in several localities in northern Colorado, in northern Utah, in Oregon, and in Washington. Moreover, agents attached to the eastern office investigated Japanese farming in the States of Texas and Florida. The detailed results of these special investigations have been set forth in reports dealing with each city and with each agricultural community. In the present report the more general results have been brought together with the personal data obtained for 13,307 Japanese for whom schedules were taken. Of the 13,307 Japanese 12,905 were foreign-born, 402 native-born. The representative character of the personal data is indicated by the following table, which shows by industry the number of foreign-born Japanese for whom information was obtained.

TABLE 1.-Total number of foreign-born Japanese for whom information was secured, by sex and by industry.

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