West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-05-03
AMERICANS IN RUSSIAN ASIA.
Three Instances or Their Enterprise.

ton 10 Nlkolayevsk, a new Russian
city near the mouth of the Amur
river. They went into a general sup
ply trade with the settlements along
the Amur. Two years later, both
partners visited Boston on business,
and there met friend named Emory.
This Emory he'd with him at the
time a son who was only a boy. The
boy listened with intense interest TO
what the merchants had to say about
the Amur country. When the En-
orys returned to their home on the
Cape Cod peninsula, the boy begged
his father to let him go back with
the two men. Mr.. Emory consented,
though he was not in earnest about
IT. since he thought his boy would
act like other boys and soon let the
matter drop and think of something
else. But Enoch Emory was not
built that way.
He wrote to the merchants. and
was told they would give him a
place. They also wrote him to come
to Boston by certain day, SO as TO
go on ship they were loading with
goods. But Mrs. Emory saw the
letter first, and like all mothers. she
aid not wish him to 90 so far away
from home. So she told him moth
ing of the letter until the very day
the ship was to sail. Enoch was so
determined to go, that he tied up a
bundle of clothes in a handkerchief.
ran to the train, and barely reached
Boston on time. At the wharf he
fouod one of the merchants. whose
attention he attracted by pulling his
coat sleeve. He explained why he
was so late, and the merchant told
him he would be IS days in going to
Siberia, that it was sometimes very
cold there, and that his handful of
clothes would not be enough. So
he took him to clothing store and
bought him complete outfit.
When Enoch arrived in Siberia.
he was given clerkship. He speed
lily proved to be the very kind of
help the merchants needed.
A very few years later, his en-
ployers decided to remove their head
office to San Francisco, and leave
their interests in the Amur country
In the care of trustworthy agent.
They made young Emory their
agent, but within two years, he
bought them out, and they became
his agents. He was then only six
teen years old.
BY the time he was twenty. he
had amassed quite little fortune.
Though hardly yet middle aged
man, he is a merchant prince. and
bids fair to become one of the rich
est men in the world. He has agents
scattered over a region more than
matt as large as the whole United
States. He sells anything that is
wanted, from pin to locomotive.
and buys his goods in all parts of
America and Europe. He furnishes
supplies wholesale to the Russian
government, and has large interest
IN the Siberian railroad. Every year
he makes business trip to Russia.
and he has an Office in Moscow
MS American name of Emory has
been Russianized into Emerich.
On the line of the new Siberian
railroad is a farm belonging 10
man named Lindholm, who makes
Hour for the Russian government.
HIS farm is five miles square, and
he employs more than 100 men to
do his work. Seventy mich cows
are kept on the farm. A road sew.
eral miles long and as smooth and
level as floor leads to the railroad,
where he has quite village, con-
slsting of brick Touring mill. saw
mill, the superintendent's cottage.
storage houses and other buildings.
4 year or so ago, another Ameri-
can went to the Russian seaport of
Niadivostok to find market for
railroad supplies. He was told the
chief surveyor of the Siberian rail.
road was several hundreds of miles
inland. Although it was a strange
country to any American, this drum.
mer at once organized a party, and
set out to find the surveyor and he
found him. 1t was search in the
dark, for he had to traverse a wild
country where white men have beep
unknown. His trip was entirely
successful. The Russian officers had
supposed u was necessary to 20 to
England for anything FIRST class.
But this man showed the superiority
OF American goods, and the result
was 20 drive all others quite out Of
The held America Is now sending
to that new country rails. iron
bridges. locomotives, and even