New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06

Asiatic S11,220000 Among Russia's chief i'm
ports are raw and half manufactured articles, OF
which cotton. metals. coal, wool. silk. leather,
hides, skins and chemicals constitute one-half.
Cereals and -four comprise half of Russias
exports. others being timber. naphtha. fax and
hemp, oil cake. oil grains, and other raw ma
terialS
Russia deals most largely with Germany, as
the following figures for the year 1900 show:
Russian exports into Germany, S96.632. 02J, i'm
ports from Germany Sill Ga 400; Great Britain,
exports to. S74.971. 60: imports from. S6J.45o.
so; France exports to- S29.5S6. go imports
from, G.295. so; Austria Hungary, exports to,
Sl35239'-5; imports from. Sl3SSG4G0; Turkey,
exports to. S9.4e4.5l5; imports from, S3.125,Sj0;
United States. exports TO- S17G07S5; imports
from. 2273931O; China, exports TO. $5s9.G1J;
imports from. S. ,;;59395 II is thus seen that
Russia buys thirteen times rs much she sells
TO the Yankee.
Russia's Ordinary" revenue for 1900 was
$50. 100000 with an expenditure CT S71So0o,
COO Her extra or extraordinary" revenue
brought up the total TO $S6S 100000 six times
that Of JaTan's. ard her "extraordinary' ex-
ponditure made the total state expenses $50
OO900o Russia obtains her income from direct
taxes on lands. forests and capital and sale Of
trade licenses. SG5.po0000; indirect taxes from
custom duties and imposts on spirits tobacco.
sugar, etc. $40. 100000; duties from passports,
railroad taxes etc. 100000; state monopo-
lies IL mnes posts. minis, telegrarhs. telephones,
liquor. SlleOO0OOo; rentals from crown lands.
mines. earnings OF state railroads. $2iOODooo.
sales OF domains. $4,000, redemption Of land
by payments Of ex-scrfs. S44oO0OOO: miscella-
neous, S5e.oot,PvO CHIEF among the ordinary
expenditures are the interest the state debt.
the army. S16O OOOoQO. the navy S46.UOOcUD.
and departments Of Justice including the trans
AT If q OF na --fN-
traordiuary" expenditures is the building and
operating Of railroads. Of which the empire has
o6.aoo miles, including the a.3oS-rnile Siberian
railroad
Agriculture has been the main support Of the
Russian people from the earliest times. Four
hfths OF its inhabitants till the soil. There are
great areas still uncultivated, even in European
Russia. the forests covering about two-hfths
Of the arabic land. One-ffth OF Russia. includ-
ing the tundras in the north and the salt
stcppes in the south. is too barren 20 grow
crops, and sT"anps cover about 15.OOD.UOO acres
in West Russia. Accordingly, only one-fifth of
European Russia is under cultivation. including
about 2l3o0.Oo0 acres With the forests RACED
and the swamps drained Russia would have
nearly one billion cultivable acres
European Russia produces two-thirds the oats
and one-haH the rye Of Europe The chief
crops OF cereals IN bushels for the entire
empire average annually follows: Wheat.
4lSUgtteD- rye. SUZ,gUO,BtD: oats, SteyyOs-
600; barley, 252.OOOOOO. The beet sugar in
dustry is being rapidly developed. and 1900.
COO acres are now under cultivation in connec-
ton with this industry. Four-fifths Of the fax
tow OF the world is supplied by Russia, and il
1899 100000 acres yielded 357. 600 tons Of fibre
and Il, 300 600 pounds of unseed- In Russian
TurIestan and the Caucasus the cotton fields
yield about 100000 pounds a year. Russia
produces about 100000 pounds OF tobacco
a year from Bessarabian plantations. Russia
ports timber worth SJ0OOOOOO a year. Cattle
mated that in the whole empire there &C.
OO0. 600 horses, 100000 head Of cattle. 90
GOO sheep and goats and 100000 hogs.
Russia produces more wool than any European
nation except Great Britain
Manufactures have been backward in Russia.
and until 1870 the Muscovites bought nearly
everything made from other nations. A recent
high tariff averaging about 30 per cent OF the
value has encouraged home Industries, that
al the present time about 100000 people are
employed IN Russian factories west OF the Ural
Mountains. which turned out IN 1897 total
product worth s1,500o 100000 Most OF the Rus
sian factories are small. and are scattered
through the country. In the winter they give
employment TO many peasants who would other
wise be idle on their icebound farms The man
ufacture Of linen. woollen goods. leather. house
utensils. pottery and hats is still conducted
largely at home by peasants. who sell them at
the great fairs The capital invested I'm 1898 in
Russian enterprises was estimated at 5000,
600 Shipbuilding is a comparatively insignif-
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