The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-12
.siteria IL already one Of ti,e ch,ef daIry

Siberia Ia already one OF the chief dair,
| countries OF tho world. and butter from
| there is shipped dir Get to London over tht
Transsiberian road and through Russia.
| We carry 1t TO the Baltic and send &
| thence 10 England by fast steamers. I
\ takes about three weeks 10 get II TO tn.
| seaboard. 1t IS carried IN refrigerator cars
| some cooled by icS and some by chemicals
CARS FOR
| BUTTER TRAFFIC
I'VE ahve already one thousand cars de
voted TO this trade alone ard during the
| season We run two fast butter trains ever,
| day. We have refr!gerators at the station.
| to store the butter.
We are already shipping almost a b,II.or
and q half Of pounds Of butter a year ana
the business is in Its infancy. I. Will stead
| lily grow and in time improved breeds o.
cattle will he introduced.
| Another feature OF our trafflc" contin
| ued Prince Hilkoff. is the stipmen, Of
| fruits TO Siberia
There arc people In Siberia VINO hat
never seen apples. grapes and orange:
until the coming OF the railroad These
fruits were sold only in the larger cities.
They had to be brought by the post o,
by the steamers, ard IL was impossible 10
| carry perishabla fruit.
Oranges then brought rs much as :,
cents or 81 apiece. They are now sold al
reasonable prices all along the railroad
How about grain. your E1cellency Can
you make a low enough freight rate 10
compete with ours IN the markets of Eu-
| rope?"
Il think we shall be able to do So" re-
piled the Minister Of Railroads. I'VE are
!! already shipping grain northwnrd TO Arch.
angel. and from there to different parts OF
Europe by sea.
Our grain markets of the future will be
bo F,r
nous demand for wheat and other cereals
in China. and that trade will probably be
developed
How about the prospects of American
trade in Siberia? Does 1t offer any field
for our commercial invasion?"
Yes" replied Prince Rilkofi. American
goods are already sold in many parts of
Siberia
This Is especially so of farming tools.
There is a demand for reapers and mowers
and there should oe opening for all sorts
Of goods supplied by the Western States.
81 look for n great increase in the COM
merce between Eastern Siberia and the
Pacific Slope. That par. of your country,
is almost destitute of good coal We have
excellent coal in Siberia. which we can
ship you ut a profit, and in return the YES
sells can bring back American merchandise
and machinery
American furniture IA also in demand.
and there is no reason why ali sorts of
American goods should not be sold"
How about the coal areas of the Trans
siberian Railroad. your Excellency.
I'VE are finding new coal fields every
year" replied Prince Hilkon
One OF the great arguments against
building the road was the probable lack of
fuel 1t was said that we should have TO
cut down the forests to feed the engines.
The prospects are that We shall have PLENTY
of coal for ali time from the beds along
the line of the road The coal we are now
using comes from deposits near the track
Some of 1t is excellent coking coal. and
near 1t are large deposits of iron, SO that
We expect to have a manufacturing indus
try away out there in Siberia
1 here asked some questions about IN.
improvements of the Transsibertan Rail-
road and his ESceilency took me across tho
room and showed me a number of mans in
illustration of his talk.
I can only give the gist of his conyersa-
ton. The road when completed with its
Manchurian branches will be $50 miles
long and the route from ocean to ocean.
that Is from Havre to Valdtyostok. will
be 800 miles in length At present 1t
takes a little over two weeks 20 20 from
St Petersburg to Port Arthur, and the time
will eventually be cut down to ten days
General Miles made the trip from Picking
to St Petersburg In eighteen days, and he
told me that travelling was very comfort
able all the way through.
Within short time we shall Be able to
90 from London to Paris to Shanghai In