. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. 0 milesof railway transport, and naphtha residues, which are so largelyemployed for all kinds of steam-raising, are rising steadily inprice. Official comfort is given by the statement that coal willprobably be found under the Moscow district itself, but mean-while the cost of fuel, and therefore of power, stands in theway of many a new industrial enterprise. One other matter in connection with cotton in Russia desen^esmention. Most of the raw material comes from America, anda
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. 0 milesof railway transport, and naphtha residues, which are so largelyemployed for all kinds of steam-raising, are rising steadily inprice. Official comfort is given by the statement that coal willprobably be found under the Moscow district itself, but mean-while the cost of fuel, and therefore of power, stands in theway of many a new industrial enterprise. One other matter in connection with cotton in Russia desen^esmention. Most of the raw material comes from America, anda considerable quantity from Egypt. But in Turkestan, Russiahas come into possession of a cotton-growing country of great THE TWO MOSCOWS 31 possibilities. Last year, a Moscow merchant told me, 350,000American bales came from there, and this, it must be remembered,is favoured by escapin<4 the heavy duty which foreign cotton hasto pay. An official publication before me contains this state-ment : In the near future probably the greater part of the Rus-sian cotton industry will be supplied with native raw THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW, FROM IHE l;Kll(Gh But as all the cotton of Turkestan is dependent upon irrigation,and capital is scarce there,the Moscow spinners do not yet sharethis optimistic hope. Meanwhile, here is a little story, whichmay interest Lancashire. A prominent and wealthy Moscowproducer of cotton goods is exhibiting, with ostensible indigna-tion, but really with much natural pride, a piece bearing an exactimitation of his own trade-mark. His name is slightly altered,but the rest, including his many medals from exhibitions, with hisname correctly spelled upon them, is there. This piece was manu- 32 ALL THE RUSSIAS factured in England and sent to him by his agent in , at least, everybody says. I did not succeed in seeing it. There is nothing so interesting in Russia at this moment asthe industrial development which has already gone so far, andis w
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