The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

year 1900 show: Russian exports into
Germany, $96,632, OBS; imports from Ger
many, $111, 614, 405; Great Britain, ex-
ports to, $74,971, $40; imports from, $685.
46O,32O; France, exports to, $29. $50, $50;
imports from, 1925. 595; Austria Hun
gary, exports to, $13,523, 900; imports from,
$13,SS6,4 400; Turkey exports to. $9,404 SIS;
imports from, $3,725,S50; United States,
exports to, $1,760 1856; imports from, 1922
1880; China, exports to- $685., 675; i'm
ports from, $3.50, 1895. 1t is thus seen
that Russia buys thirteen times as much
as she sells to the Yankee.
Russia's ordinary" revenue for 1900 was
1852, 100000, with an expenditure Of $778,
100000. Her extra or extraordinary rev.
enue brought up the total to 1858 600 0OO
SIX times that of Japan'S, and her lex
traordtnary'' expenditure made the total
state expenses $840, zoo, 900. Russia obtains
her income from direct taxes on lands
forests and capital and sale of trade IL
censes, $65, 100000 Indirect taxes from
custom duties and imposts on spirits, to-
bacco, sugar, etc, $40, 600 600; duties
from passports, railroad taxes ETC., $751;
100000; state monopOlies In mines, posts
mmts, telegraphs, telephones, liquor
$IlO,O00OOO; rentals from crown lands
mines, earnings of state railroads. s24O,-
100000; sales of domains, 1870, 600; re-
dempt1On Of land by payments of ex-
serfs, $4,000, 900; miscellaneous. s3S, 900. =
600. Chief among the Ordinary expendi-
lures are the interest on the state debt
the army, $780, 600; the navy, SAG, 900, =
900, and departments Of justice, including
the transportation Of exiles, $23, 600, 0OO
One of the extraordinary expenditures
is the building and operating of railroads
of which the empire has $500 miles in
Guiding the 1888 mile Siberian railroad.
Agriculture has been the main support
OF the Russian people from the earliest
times. Four-fifths of it's inhabitants till
the soil. There are great areas still I'M
cultivated, even in European Russia. the
forests covering about two-fifths of the
arabic land. One-fifth of Russia includ-
ing the tundras in the north and the
salt steppes In the south, is too barren
to grow crops, and swamps cover about
1000 600 acres in West Russia. Accord
fngly, only one-fifth of European Russia
is under cultivation, including about 215,-
100000 acres With the forests RACED and
the swamps drained Russia would have
nearly 1000, 100000 cultivable acres.
Manufacturers have been backward in
Russia, and until 1920 the Muscovites
bought nearly everything made from 9TH
er nations. A recent high tariff, averaging
about 35 per cent Of the value, has en-
couraged home industries, so that at the
present time about 2,OOOO 900 people are
employed in Russian factories west Of the
UraI mountains, which turned out In 1897
a total product worth 81 500, 900 900. Most
Of the Russian factories are small and
are scattered through the country. In
the winter they give employment to many
peasants who would otherwise be idle on
their icebound farms. The manufacture of
linen, wooden goods. leather house uten-
sis, pottery and hats is still conducted
largely at home by peasants, who sell
them at the great fairs. The capital in
vested in 1898 In Russian enterprises was
estimated at 1896, 900, 900. Shipbuilding is
comparatively insignificaiw industry.
Russia has most of her warships built
abroad.