The Red Cloud chief., 1900-12-21

1891 ~ iNoh iNI
formation OF Siberia. Melo.
drama has lone its share in
creating the impression that
siberia Is nothing more than a BOWLING
waste or snow and ice. One OF the wild.
est spread and longest lived %jocular uses
10 which this popular impression OF 81.
beria has been put exists In the police
force In almost every large city in
America. Most OF these cities have
sparsely settled suburbs, the homes. for
the most part. OF men employed In manu-
featuring establishments. An assignment
to police duty In these localities is in me
nature or an exile. and so, in the language
or the police, the cop who is condemned
to punishment IL sent to Siberia" Err
roneous as all these impressions OF 81.
IBERIA ARE when the test OF today Is an.
piled, yet II Is not the foreigner only who
holds this mistaken belief. To the ma.
jorfty OF the Inhabitants Of st. Petersburg
and Moscow Siberia is as unknown as Il
IS to the clay eaters of the Southern
United states. Those Americans who
have asked men Of affairs In Moscow
what clothes to take to Siberia have been
told that furs always are necessary. ow.
Ing to the extreme cold. Yet in the
Siberian city OF K~rasnoyarsk the Their.
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degrees. and any clothes except those
made OF silk and linen were absolutely
u~nendurable
Let Siberia speak for herself, saws
Thomas Smith. our consul In Moscow.
she Is a country inside OF which the whole
OF the United States could be put with
plenty OF room to spare. While the
worlds knowledge OF Siberia today is
marvellous compared with thai OF even
ten years ago, vast portions of the coun-
Try are still UNEMPLOYED. even by the
Russians.
1t Will take American mining enterprise
to open up the wonderful mineral re-
sources OF Siberia, and that Americans
hand In the development OF this country
Is not altogether hidden is evident TO
one who stands In the streets of Tomsk
and sees American moving machines
rattle through on the way to the wheat
helds. or to one who, passing along the
dusty highways OF K~rasnoyarsk, sees n
Policeman whirling along on an American
bicycle.
To-day the New Yorker can 60 from
TINS city, by way OF Berlin, Moscow and
lrKutsk, to Vladivostock, on the Pacific.
III twenty-five days. A railway almost
connecting Asia and America at the Ber-
lns straits Is predicted of the future.
mere Is. engineers say, no obstacle in
'he way except the terrific cold of winter
ana the immense fields OF tundra. or
'steppes,' through which a path must
De cut. A railway line through such a
country as Northeastern Siberia will no,
De so dificult to construct as was the
line Of the White Pass and Yukon routa
siberia has many cities Of from TO-
10 oo,OOO inhabitants. Hotels supplied
with comfortable rooms, restaurants
winch may truly be said in many cases
70 be palatial. electric lights and tele-
phone connections are not difficult IN
ihu' one may traverse Siberia with his
hahds FOLDED, IL he so wishes; as the eIe- |
SAINT weekly vestibuled train Is supplied |
win oath' piano, dining saloon, rawing |
room' leather sofas, easy chairs and OH |
serVatlon car, the whole fitted with cleo
TIC hghts and call bells. The cost of
thls remarkable journey of 300 miles.
including sleeper, is only $4i, first class,
Anticipated and expensive methods are |
IN use by even the largest COMPANIES for
working the placer deposits: these meth. |
ods having undergone no mprovema,
In the last fifty years. At many mines |
In siberia 1000 men and 500 horses ara |
used on u single property to produce gold ]
not exceeding S2,OOO,OOO a year. In some
cases, as In the platinum mines of tho |
ural' this quota of men and horses is en-. |
pioyed Tor an output not exceeding $500. |
W.. This on ground, too, where the em-
pioyment of dredges and mechanical ex- |
caVators Is In all ways feasible, and
"hero oftentimes the auriferous gravel |
eouiu De conveyed advantageously to the |
washing machines by wire rope gravity |
4 Kan Mr. Dt,f I
cording to conservative calculations, II |
mechanical conveyors and improved types |
OF sluices were installed In mines in ST. |
IBERIA at present worked by the old meth
obs the gold output OF the Russian en- |
pire would be increased at least three ,
times over Its present amount. On ac. |
count of the general fatness of the conn. \
try, mining by means OF hydraulic power !
VIII never have a great future In Siberia:
hut in many districts sufficient grade can
be obtained for the use OF hydraulic ele-
Vators. For dredging river beds, the
method OF placer mining now pursued
with such success in California, Montana
ana New Zealand, could well be employed
in the Siberian gold fields. The miles OF
auriferous river beds capable of being so
worked. number tens of thousands.
The quartz deposits in Siberia are en-
Urely ~undeVeloped. There are probably |
to-day not over a dozen stamp mills
operating In the whole country and II Is
doubtful II over 40 stamps are dropping. /
OF the old type OF roller type gold mills,
there are also a few. But even with the
makeshift contrivance in use. the opera
lions frequently pay large profits. Deep
mining is unknown; It Is doubtful II there
Is a single shaft In the limits OF the
Russian empire which has penetrated a
precious metal deposit to a depth greater |
than 700 feet. At water level. whore the |
free milling ore shops and %sulphurets be- |
gin. work Is discontinued; and. except In |
two or three instances along the Ural /!
chain, the working OF concentrates by |
cyaniding or colonization IL unknown. So ,
far as known, only one operator has In
stalled thoroughly up to date milling. con-
ccntrating and chlorination plants.
The difficulties of transporting machin-
cry to such deposits are much less than