TITLE: Overland Immigration.
SOURCE: Daily Alta California, 29 August 1850, page 2.
TRANSCRIBER: SFgenealogy.
NOTES: None.
The Immigration across the Plains.—We have been handed the following statement of the immigration across the plains, from the United States to California, by the Fort Laramie route. These statistics were taken from the register at the Fort, on the 3d of June [1850]:
| Males | 11,443 |
| Females | 119 |
| Children | 99 |
| Total | 11,661 |
| Number of Wagons | 3,118 |
| Horses | 10,900 |
| Mules | 3,588 |
| Oxen | 3,428 |
| Cows | 233 |
This is probably but about one third of the immigration by this route during the present season. We applaud the spirit which has induced the registeration of the number of persons and teams passing the fort, and thank our informant for his thoughtfulness in furnishing us with the information, interesting to us personally, and valuable to our readers.
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