Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-06
HAS RUSSIAN PLANT
international Harvester Com
pany Evades Tariff.
DOING GREAT BUSINESS
Government Welcomes New Factory
Of Farm Implements.
LOCATION IS NEAR MOSCOW
Many Reapers and Other Agricultu-
raj Machines Used in Develop
ing Siberian Wastes.
LOCATION IS NEAR MOSCOW
BY WILLIAM f. CURTIS.
Written for The Star and the Chicago Record
Herald

L heralQ.
The business of the International Har-
| vester Company In Russia has become so
| large that the company has established
recently plant in the village Of Lubertzy,
| near Moscow. for the manufacture of
binders, reapers, mowers. engines and
other agricultural machinery.
It will thus be able to escape the du-
ties which must be paid upon machinery
imported from the United States. The
| tariff on the ordinary mower is about 81,
on gas engines $4.56 per hundred pounds
net weight and on other machinery about
IS per hundredweight. The duty on Irvine
is $1.53 per hundredweight when shipped
separately, but liberal allowance is ad-
mitted free with each machine.
| Reapers. binders, rakes, tedders, ma
nure spreaders and cream separators are
free. There is a high duty on all other
machinery. which will average $40 per
thirty-six pounds.
| Transportation rates from Chicago. as
everybody will appreciate. are also high.
| Agricultural machinery for Roumania,
| Hungary, southern Russia and the eau
casus is shopped direct to Odessa, Ba-
| toum or other Black sea ports from New
| York. There are two direct lines of
| steamers and several others transship
freight at 1enoa, Arieste and Marseille.
The custom, however, Is OF snip ali
| agricultural implements and machinery
for western and northern Europe. which
includes Russia. to Hamburg and distrib-
ute 1t from that point. All the large
manufacturing companies in the United
States have their general agencies there.
from which the trade is directed and con-
trolled. Hamburg is the great distrib-
uting point for all kinds of imports from
the United States and other parts of
| America.
Five Branches in Russia.
! The International Harvester Company
has five branch houses in Russia, To-
Gated at Moscow. Odessa, Riga. Charkoff
and Rostov. and three in Siberia, at Sa-
mara. Omsk and Vladivostok. 1t has han
died an enormous amount Of implements
and machinery, and the Russian govern
ment has been one of its best customers,
| buying machines direct and selling them
| to farmers at cost on long time.
In Siberia and Turkestan there are
seventy-f1ve or eighty crown sklads, or
government agencies. for the sale OF
agricultural implements and labor-sav
ing machinery. and for instructing i'm
migrants in their use. These sklads are
large sheds and warehouses for storing
machinery, with repair shops, agricul-
tural schools and experimental farms at
tached.
Any farmer who desires to take ad-
| vantage of the liberality Of the govern
n1ent can apply at the nearest sklad for
instruction. which is furnished him free
strated that he is competent to use the
machinery. 1t is furnished them at cost.
SHERMAN Punishment.
| This is done to promote the settlement
Of the vast territory along the great ST.
berian railroad. which Is similar to North
Dakota and Montana and in Turkestan
along the Central Asia railway, where the
climate and soil are similar to New
Mexico and Arizona, and irrigation is re.
quired.
A considerable portion of the popula-
ton Of Siberia is made up of political
exiles. Unless they have criminal records
they are not only perfectly free to carry
on farming or any other business OF
profession they see fit, but are no worse
of than the pioneers of Kansas, Ne
braska, Texas and other sections Of the
United States.
| Indeed. the voluntary exiles who went to
Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri. even those
who went to Ohio. Indiana and Illinois in
early times, suffered great deal more
than the ordinary Russians who were
banished to Siberia
There are, of course, degrees OF punish
ment according to the crime. The worst
criminals are sentenced to perpetual labor
| in the mines; others to imprisonment for
life or for terms of years.
The great majority OF political exiles
| from Russia proper have been simply
banished from cities and other centers Of
population where they were disturbing
the peace by political agitation. and re-
sisting the policy of the government, to
new homes and wider opportunities for
their own welfare and usefulness upon
the wide prairies of Siberia. They were
there given a fresh start in life. which the
most of them have used to great ad-
| vantage.
Exiles Have Many Rights.
They are not interfered with so long
as they behave themselves and keep the
peace. The government assists them in