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Show "Americanization" of Carbon County 181 and Carbon County appears to have been especially strong. 8 Such a phenomenon transcended nationality and occurred among metal miners as well as coal miners. Carbon County's ethnic diversity was characteristic almost from the outset or at least from the formation of the area into a distinct county in 1894. T h e county's foreign-born population in 1900 and 1920 was: 1900 Australia Austria Canada China Denmark England Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Japan Mexico Netherlands Norway Poland Russia Scotland Sweden Switzerland Wales Yugoslavia Others 1920 . — 28 3 96 294 163 — 29 • — . 17 374 125 — — 11 — • — 113 36 18 202 — 325 6 315 33 16 84 477 83 110 53 869 13 1,215 516 113 4 19 19 40 115 61 11 80 162 136 Census statistics reflect only the settled population. T h e movement of workers from place to place is not injected; nevertheless, the figures do illustrate the diverse elements, and the fluidity factor would in all probability inflate the figures.9 T h e various mining camps were themselves multiethnic, reflecting the county's quality. I n 1903 in Castle Gate there w7ere 356 Italians, 108 s This observation was particularly evident in the pension application files located at the United Mine Workers of America Office in Price, U t a h . Similar trends were also discovered in the personnel files of the U t a h Copper Co. ( K e n n e c o t t ) , once located at the R. C. Gemmell Club, Bingham Canyon, U t a h . s U.S., Department of Interior, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900: Population, vol. 1 (Washington, D . C : Government Printing Office, 1903), p. 7 8 9 ; U.S., Department of Commerce, Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920: Population, vol. 3 (Washington, D . C : Government Printing Office, 1922), p. 1040. |
