328 THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM 
There have already, in 1912, been published seven 
bulletins giving information regarding conditions in 
all the States and in Alaska and Hawaii. There has 
been a demand for these bulletins, not only from im 
migrants, but from Americans in our cities. Some 
requests have come from American citizens who had 
gone to northwestern Canada, but who now wish to 
return. In 19x1-12, 26,213 applications were received, 
and 5,807 persons were directed to employment. It 
is. not known, of course, how many make use of the 
information, but the Commissioner estimates that 
150,000 persons, immigrants and American citizens, 
may well have benefited from the information given. 
In November, 1911, the Division called a confer 
ence of state officials dealing with immigration, and 
delegates from 25 states and from Hawaii attended. 
Plans for cooperation were discust and measures 
adopted from which more beneficial cooperative 
action has been secured. It is very desirable that 
some branches of the Division be established at im 
portant business points, such as Chicago, New Orleans 
and San Francisco. The need for such work that 
will aid in a voluntary independent distribution of the 
immigrants out of the congested mining and great 
manufacturing centers is vital. 
Division of Information 
It is hoped that the present activity of the division 
will be extended as far as practicable in an effort to 
give information to arriving immigrants concerning 
the “resources, products, and physical characteristics,” 
of the various States, and in supplying information to 
individuals or organizations, public or private; and