| Born in— | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 481 | 1,740 | 1,755 | 2,324 | 3,082 |
| Pennsylvania | 275 | 814 | 1,023 | 1,672 | 2,818 |
| Ohio | 235 | 954 | 1,234 | 2,100 | 3,549 |
| California | 156 | 2,177 | 3,142 | 5,099 | 6,101 |
| Missouri | 121 | 921 | 1,781 | 3,187 | 5,206 |
| Illinois | 115 | 688 | 1,328 | 2,659 | 4,700 |
| Texas | 114 | 525 | 285 | 4,510 | 10,139 |
| Kentucky | 107 | 451 | 700 | 1,189 | 2,168 |
| New Mexico | 93 | 1,153 | 1,274 | 3,351 | 4,477 |
| Indiana | 69 | 373 | 661 | 1,248 | 2,289 |
| Tennessee | 63 | 314 | 579 | 783 | 1,578 |
| Arkansas | 32 | 328 | 441 | 814 | 1,542 |
| Utah | 1 | 1,354 | 2,836 | 3,152 | 2,679 |
| Canada (British America) | 112 | 571 | 732 | 1,827 | 1,269 |
| Germany | 379 | 1,110 | 2,121 | 1,247 | 1,846 |
| Great Britain | 686 | 2,312 | 2,691 | 3,255 | 5,836 |
| Mexico | 4,339 | 9,330 | 11,534 | 14,172 | 29,987 |
From these statistics it is evident that the majority of the people who came to settle in Arizona were from States where the public school was already established, and for that reason, since these settlers had already been indoctrinated with the public school idea, little opposition from them was to be expected. This was also clearly the case with the immigrants from Europe and from Canada. Those who might be expected to show indifference were the Mexican immigrants from old and New Mexico, but experience has since proved that this assumption was erroneous. It would appear that otherwise little opposition was to be expected except such as was founded on physical and financial conditions and on the very pertinent difficulty arising out of the scarcity of children. On this phase of the problem McClintock remarks:
Schools were slow in coming to Arizona, probably because of the absence of children other than Mexican. Few of the pioneers brought families into the Territory. It is probable that most of the pioneers simply had an idea, like the first California adventurers, of “making their pile” and going “home.” Upon the groundwork they laid, however, was established a more permanent civilization, within which schools were a necessity. The first Territorial legislature passed a school code, but there seems to have been only one school, a small private one in Prescott, and that maintained largely by private subscriptions.[1]
- ↑ McClintock, James H.: Arizona, II, 495.
