. Siberia and the exile system. ^^. THE SAVENs<KI MINE- We cant open an iron mine, he replied, without arazreshenia [a permit or an authorization] from St. Peters-burg. Then why dont the proper authorities give you arazreshenia f What is the reason that a useful and neces-sary work of this kind cannot be accomplished ? I dontsee how the present state of affairs can be profitable toanybody. His only reply was a shrug of the shoulders, which I in-terpreted to mean either that he did not know or that itwas not his business. From the prisons of Gorni Zerentui we drove in CaptainDemidofs drdshhj
. Siberia and the exile system. ^^. THE SAVENs<KI MINE- We cant open an iron mine, he replied, without arazreshenia [a permit or an authorization] from St. Peters-burg. Then why dont the proper authorities give you arazreshenia f What is the reason that a useful and neces-sary work of this kind cannot be accomplished ? I dontsee how the present state of affairs can be profitable toanybody. His only reply was a shrug of the shoulders, which I in-terpreted to mean either that he did not know or that itwas not his business. From the prisons of Gorni Zerentui we drove in CaptainDemidofs drdshhj to the Savenski mine, which we foundon a snowy, desolate mountain slope about two miles fromthe village. The buildings at the mouth of the shaft were 316 SIBEKIA cheap and insignificant, as usual, but one of them containeda small steam-engine—the first and only machine of thekind that I saw in the Trans-Baikal. While Mr. Frost wasmaking a sketch of the building and of the dreary arcticlandscape, I went through the mine, but foun
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