Siberia and the exile system . ption of Siberia than to assail it with facts and statis-tics, even at the risk of being wearisome. I will thereforesay, briefly, that the province of Tobolsk, which is the partof Siberia with which a traveler from Europe first becomesacquainted, extends from the coast of the arctic ocean to thesun-scorched steppes of Semipalatinsk and Akmolinsk, andfrom the mountains of the Ural to the boundary line ofYeniseisk and Tomsk. It has an area of 590,000 squaremiles and includes 27,000,000 acres of arable land. It con-tains 8 towns of from 3000 to 20,000 inhabitants, a
Siberia and the exile system . ption of Siberia than to assail it with facts and statis-tics, even at the risk of being wearisome. I will thereforesay, briefly, that the province of Tobolsk, which is the partof Siberia with which a traveler from Europe first becomesacquainted, extends from the coast of the arctic ocean to thesun-scorched steppes of Semipalatinsk and Akmolinsk, andfrom the mountains of the Ural to the boundary line ofYeniseisk and Tomsk. It has an area of 590,000 squaremiles and includes 27,000,000 acres of arable land. It con-tains 8 towns of from 3000 to 20,000 inhabitants, and itstotal population exceeds 1,200,000. In the last year forwhich I was able to get statistics the province produced30,044,880 bushels of grain and 3,778,230 bushels of potatoes, 104 SIBERIA and eoiitaiuod 2,647,000 head of live stock. It sends annuallyto European Russia enormous quantities of raw products,such as hides, tallow, bristles, fui-s, birds skins, flax, andhemp ; it forwards more than 2,000,000 pounds of butter to. Constantinople by way of Rastof, on the Don ; and there isheld within its limits, at Irbit, a commercial fair whose trans-actions amount annually to 35,000,000 rubles ($17,500,000).The manufacturing industries of the province, although stillin their infancy, furnish employment to 6252 persons and A SIBERIAN CONVICT BARGE 105 put annually upon the market goods to the value of 8,517,000rubles. Besides the workmen employed in the regularmanufacturing establishments, the urban population in-cludes 27,000 mechanics and skilled laborers. Cottage indus-tries are carried on extensively throughout the province, andproduce annually, among other things, 50,000 rugs and car-pets ; 1,500,000 fathoms of fish netting; 2,140,000 yards oflinen cloth; 50,000 barrels; 70,000 telegas and sleighs;leather manufactures to the value of 2,500,000 rubles; andquantities of dressed furs, stockings, mittens, belts, scarfs,laces, and ornamented towels and sheets. The quantity offish
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