The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-10-20
The gailg g ,llstin.
WEDNESDAY. OCT. 20. 1886.
RUSSIAN COLONIZATION.


The Russian journals are publish
ing very seductive descrip tions of
the Caucasian districts abutting on
the Black Sea, with the object of
inducing agricultural colonists TO
repair thither. The land is repre-
scented as an earthly paradise IN
which the climate excels the most
favored parts of the Rivera, the
vegetation is semi-tropical in variety
and luxuriance and The virgin for
ests abound in costly timber, such
as the Caucasian pain and the red
mahogany, which LOW TO an enor-
nous sire. The valleys and even
the mountains to considerable
height are clothed with rhododen-
drons and azaleas for the greater
part of the year, the ports are never
INSTRUCTED by ice, in fact-there is
no winter, and autumn insensibly
merges into spring. All the dainti-
est fruits flourish to perfection in
the orchards, and the vine is not
only gigantic but prolific. There is
an Indigenous tea-tree which will
stand comparison with the Chinese
plant, and hops, tobacco and cotton
find congenial home in the soil.
Cereals of all kinds multiply eX-
ceedingly, grain of maize fructi-
flying several thousand-fold. The
abundance and richness of the null
berry tree offer brilliant prospects
to the cultivator of the silkworm and
the bee-master cannot fail to thrive
where perpetual feast of aromatic
flowers is spread for his hives. Yet
this land of Cocaizore is almost
destitute of inhabitants, notwith-
standing many attempts made by
the Russian Government during the
years that have elapsed since the
fall of Schamyl, to attract the tide
of emigration thither. Free allot-
ments of land at the rate of 135
acres per family have been made to
rural communities, and tracts OF
various sizes up to a maximum OF
5000 acres have been sold at the
moderate price of less than 4 rubles
an acre, payable in ten annual in
stallments. The failure of these
laudable endeavors to people and
develop the country is attributed to
the lack of adaptability to change OF
circumstance in the Russian agri-
cultural classes. The modes of cult
walton required are very different
from, and the scale of expenditure
far higher at the outset, than what
prevails in the plains of Russia
proper. Gratuitous grants of land
have also from time to time been
made to Government officials
throughout the Caucasus amounting
TO nearly $50, 200 acres in the neigh
borhood under mention, but from
want of capital and labor few or nc
efforts have been made to bring
them into cultivation. 1t is now
contemplated to rescind these
grants and to resume possession tc
the State of all lands which have
been allowed to lie idle, and to in.
augurate a new scheme of colonial
ton by Coss.-cks, who have shown
themselves in their settlements
the Kuban and the Terek-to be the
best pioneers of civilization TO be
found among the subjects of thu
Gar. One essential political ad
vantage expected from this proiec
would be the disseverance of twC
hostile elements Ivy planting war
like Christian race between tn,
Mussulman tribes of the interior
and their co-religionists in Turkey
The frontier they would occupy ha
ever since it's annexation been ont
of the weakest points of the Russian
Empire, exposed, from the nature
of its coast line, in time of peace Il
the incursions of smugglers and il
the case of war or threatened hostili
ties to the introduction Of arms ant
foreign emissaries, and eXtremel,
difficult to control by means o
cruisers. Whether the Cossack
whose admirers say he is the best
combination of sailor and light dra
COON in the world, will also prove
good gardener, forester and farmer
and bring with him sufficient capita
for the exploitation of the moderl
Eden depicted in the previou
lines, is to approach the questio
from point of view ignored rel
haps by his military patroDs.-[S
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