The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-06-22
Means of PopuIating Provinces
of Siberia
Amur District First To BE Attended
To On Account of Japanese
Encroacllments.
KAMCHATKA EXPLORATION

riahoh movement rum JNhrSid " 81
berla rss. since the beginning OF the
yesr. attained vast proportions no.
0"C Ell grants in thrse lnonths). This
|sr! n activity is Tue to two causcd
T. Is desire to SETTLE the Russian
IA oasl with RussiAns before the vel
los wave Whose ultius'e arrival Il
regarded as inevitable, at all events
in Siberian and ni,nGry circles heie)
breaks over 1t.
2. A desire to shoN the douma that
the government is working hard on
the problem of agricultural distress
1t will be impossible, however, TO
even partially solve the asrarian diff
Guilty in any reasonable time Ly the
settlement of Siberia for there is not
enough available land there, the set
tiers have neither the money nor the
mental habits necessary for success
full pioneers, and many Of those who
set cut with a light heart and Il
lighter purse get stranded en- route
or return to tell stories Of Siberia
that effectively stop emigration from
their village for a whole generation.
No Agricultural III Dosado.
Mr.. Demitrius Yanchivetsky, one
of the Siberian emigration officials,
says that three expeditions are 10
start this year from Khabarovsk.
One goes east to explore the noun
tains lying between the railway and
the sea; the second goes west, and
the third goes along the north bank
of the Amur as far as the sea.
Mr. Yanchivetsky is not too hope
full of discovering an agricultural FL
Dorado in the district which he per-
sonally has to traverse, for it has
been found that owing to the bad
climate and the wet soil the wheat
grown there acquires peculiar prop
erty, which has led the people to be-
stow on the loaves made from it the
name of drunken bread" This
bread causes sickness, headache and
some of the effects of intoxication.
and good bread can not possibly be
produced till the country is properly
cleared aand drained
1T is possible, them" said !, that
this country can not at present be
cultivated
Each emigrant, Mr.. Yanchivetsky
explained, gets 100 roubles in cash, Is
freed from taxes and from military
service for a certain time, gets agri-
cultural implements free, has the
benefit of watching the work done in
the experimental gardens that the
government is establishing through
out Manchuria and gets a cheap ticket
on the railway.
"Overbearing Japan" Feared.
The Amur district is to be settled
first, owing to 1t scritical position in
view OF an "overbearing Japan and
an awakened China" Then the
Zabaikal is to be settled; lastly, mid
die Asia. 1t will thus be seen that
recent events in the far east have en-
tirely Withdrawn all pressure from
the Indian frontier.
The book store of the general staff
in st. Petersburg is full of works on
Manchuria and Japan, but
il would be impossible to purchase
in 1t any recently published book
bearing on India, save, perhaps, a
thin official account of the project for
joining the Turkestan and Siberian
railway systems-a project which Is
not intended as a menace to India,
but rather to facilitate the reinforce
ment of the Russian troops in eastern
Siberia.
To return to Mr.. Yanchivetsky,
Kamchatka is, according to that gen
tleman, to be explored next year. OF
course, settlers cannot expect to live
there by agriculture alone, but there
and in the great province of Yakutssk
the grass in some places is good for
two or three months in the year;
good to make cattle rails
ing profitable. But the settler in
Kamchatka would have to be also
a good hunter and fisher, and if he
had money enough to go in for fish
ing on large scale (like Count Kali
serling, whose ~yhalers reap a rich
harvest every year in Kamchatkan
waters) he could quickly become ex-
ceedlngly wealthy.
Mr.. Yanchivetsky finally remarked
that the Amur railway will not be So
difficult a piece of engineering as the
Baikal railway, for this reason, that
1t can be made to zigzag or go around
obstacles, whereas the Baikal line had
to go straight through them.
Peasantry is Suspicious.
There is no doubt that the Russian
far east will ultimately be settled.
but thede is a doubt as to whether
It will be settled by men with yellow
skins or white skins; for. against all
The elaborate preparations of the
Russian government must be put the
Indifference and suspicion of the
Russian people. The average muzhik
says: you are trying to hustle me
out to the far east so that l may not
press my claim for a slice OF these
fat mOnastic and soignOrial lands