. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. SATION 155 ence upon Siberian agriculture, where chemical manures are outof the question, will be incalculable. There is a new world ofagricultural and mineral wealth waiting beyond the Baikal. Anew^ railway, to con-nect the Trans-Sibe- Irian with the Trans-Caspian, will be builtbefore many yearselapse, bringing newsupplies, creatingnew demands, andproviding a new safe-guard against gold output of Si-beria, of which I havealready given thestriking figures, willbe
. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. SATION 155 ence upon Siberian agriculture, where chemical manures are outof the question, will be incalculable. There is a new world ofagricultural and mineral wealth waiting beyond the Baikal. Anew^ railway, to con-nect the Trans-Sibe- Irian with the Trans-Caspian, will be builtbefore many yearselapse, bringing newsupplies, creatingnew demands, andproviding a new safe-guard against gold output of Si-beria, of which I havealready given thestriking figures, willbe largely increasedwhen the present min-ing laws are modified,and the mines thrownopen to the improvedmethods and amplercapital of the West—a state of things whichRussia is ready to wel- come. At a placecalled Ekibas-tuz, nearPavlodar, to the southof Omsk, and onlysixty-six miles from the great Irtysh River—to which a line ofrailway was finished two years ago, and three Baldwin locomo-tives sent—are coal deposits which an English engineer declaredto me to be the largest in the world, a seam running for miles of. Prosperous Siberian Peasant. 156 ALL THE RUSSIAS the almost incredible thickness of three hundred feet. Vast quan-tities of coke will be produced here, shipped down the Irtysh toTiumen, and thence transported to the Urals for the iron works—a supply the importance of which will be appreciated by thosewho know anything about the iron industry. Near this are veryrich copper mines, and it is certain that minerals will be discoveredin other parts. The transportation of convicts to Siberia willshortly cease, and last year 223,981 emigrants of both sexescrossed the Urals, making a total of close upon 1,000,000 since1893. I have perhaps now said enough to justify in some degree myown belief that the development of Siberia is destined to be ahandsome reward for the efforts and expenditure so lavishlydevoted to it. CHAPTER XTHE PRISON OF IRKUTSK FROM gold, which H. E. Gen
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