Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-21
UNCLE SAM IN MANCHUPIA

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altogether less than 1000 barrels per
day. The mills, which are heavily
nortgaged, * have now gone into the
hands of the Russo Chinese bank,
which Is not ablegto manage them At
q. profit under the present conditions.
"A thorough reorganization will have to
be made before they can compete with
our flour. b5
AIANCHuRIAcl WHEAT LANDS.
In the meantime the japanese will
soon have a new mill at Tiehling, and
they will gb.ild other mills along their.
railroad. The grain possibilities are
enormous: and, as the country de-
Yelops, Manchuria is bound to raise
all the tionrashe can use, and great
deal for export to China AS it Is now,
the valley of the Lao river exports
4 10,cQo,00O worth of food products per
year. The country drained by that
river Is about as big as the state of
Missouri. and almost every acre can be
cultivated, Along the railroad boz
,wcen Mulsden and Dalny there ar.
farms all the way. Today the prin-
3ciptl crops are beans and millet, but
tbs soil will raise wheat
Il The Sungari river, the Mississippi of
northern Slnnchuria drains district
twice as large as the Lilac watershed,
md the Whole of 1t is adapted to
Wheat Three varieties are already
grown in n small way, and the produc-
ton in the best districts Is about so
bushels per acre The grain is sown
in April and harvested in September
and October. 1t is tied UP in bundles
and stacked near the villages The
grain lis tlreshed upon a thres.ling5
floor with stone rollers which arc
pulled by donkeys led by children. It
is winnowed In the wind and then
ground into flour upon rude native
mills. Of late considerable lourhas been
taken to Hardin, and as the new mills
are built the area of production will
rapidly increase. Twelve steam mills
have recently been erected across the
frontier In Siberia, and other mills are
srrlnging up along the Transsibcrian
road.
RUSSIANS FLOODING SIBERIA
L Tho rapid settlement of Siberia is
one OF the striking features OF the cast.
3ern situation. That country has tens
or millions of acres of wheat lands.
and 1T Will eventually feed a great part
of the world. Travellers say that the
lands along the railroad are being
rapidly settled, and that there will
soon be- q populous country above
Manclluria,
e ne 5CnlncSc- aScnL75Ot our Equitable
Life Insurance company, who has Just,
returned from trip over the Trans
siberian system, says that the Russian
government is putting 10000 emigrants
day into those regions. He says that
he saw long trains coming day after
day. filled with immigrants. Some of
the engines hauled 20 cars, aud each
chr had double decks above the main
floor 50 that three tiers Of passengers
were carried.
The people are being exported by
villages, and the old and young are
crowded together, the children aid
igrown-urs being packed in like sar-
dimes This man counted the trains
and theirpassengers and it is estimated.
that the number now coming in cannot
be less than 10000 per day. From other
authorities / have like information.
and a statement was recently pub
4lished that as many as 100000 souls
were settled in Siberia last year.
This migration is not a new one. 1t
began at the close of the Japanese war.
1t amounted to- 1000 in 1905 and aver
aged that fors,several years preceding.
In / 9O6 1t was 1S0, 600, and in 1907, 100000,
while last year twas half as large as
our Immigration from all the world
during that year
This movement OF the Russian people.