JAPANESE IN U.S. SEND MILLIONS HOME

Statistics Compiled at Tokyo Show That More Than $5,000,000 Is Shipped to Orient Each Year.

59,100 BROWN MEN IN AMERICA IN 1906

Fourteen Thousand Nipponese in California Own 12,000 Acres of Land -- Majority Live on Pacific Coast.

TOKYO, Friday, May 21. -- According to statistics recently compiled, there were in December, 1906, 59,100 Japanese subjects in the United States, and out of that total, no less than 53 per cent were in California and its immediate neighboring states. In California 50 per cent of the total was found and of these 26 per cent were engaged in labor on railways and in mines, the remaining 24 per cent being occupied with agriculture.

It is in the last named enterprise alone that anything like signal success has been attained. There are 14,000 Japanese farmers, speaking roughly, in the state of California, and they own an aggregate area of 12,000 acres, which land is devoted mainly to the cultivation of fruit and vegetables. Many of the settlers have been living there for some ten to thirty years. they speak English excellently and may be said to be virtually domiciled.

An important feature is their contribution to trade with Japan but more remarkable are the sums remitted by them to the home country. In 1904 they sent to Japan $3,750,000, in 1905 nearly $5,000,000 and in 1906, $5,633,000.