The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-12-21
Timely Views Not I'M the News
NATURAL. RICHES or SIBERIA TO HELP RUSSIA
REBUILD HER FORTt MES

"'YoUNG man, west Horace Greelys advice
Young ambitious Americans Young man, go
east will be Rssas advice TO her coming generations
a. J. Sack, director of the Russian information
bureau in the United States.
'Tussia's unlimited possibilities, the future of her
economic DEVELOPMENT lie in Siberia and the far east In
there were 1886 600 people far
In 1911 the population of Siberia reached 9S66OoO
From S971914 the population of the main Siberian cities
increased on the average 2.s times
This remarkable growth of population was due to
the ansSberian railway built the end Of the nine
teenth century which bound Siberia and the Russian far
east into an economic unit connecting 1t with central
Russia and through the Pacific with the outside world
During e five years from 1906 to 1910 S0O0OOO acres
added the cultivated In 1914 Siberia and
the far produced 400 0O0OO0 poods of grain
pood is thrtysX pounds Export of grain from Siberia
into European Russia increased from 100000 poods in
1901 to 56.0OO000 poods in 1910. From 1911 TO 1915
Siberia exported about 100000 tons of butter yearly and
would have exported if there had not been short
age of refrigerator the railroads. The export of
from Siberia increased from $4,000 pools in 1901 to
962 900 pools in 1910.
Still greater are the possibilities of getting coal min
erals oil and timber from Siberia and the far east The
coal of the Kuznetzky Basin alone esmat
ed 100000 zoo 000 tons-and the great stretches
of the Amur and the Maritime Provinces there
ber coal beds, the volume of which is estimated APP
prbximatey 64ooOOOoO The total coal deposits
in Siberia and the far estimated by of the
gooogiss 1000 900 100000
The northern part Saghalin abounds also in oil
The oil Of the Russian part Of Saghan is estima
ed at 1920 square miles.
THE years of Boshevism have resulted, accord
ing to BSAhevist statements, in the destruction of
so cent of Russas railroads Therefore Russas
noic resurrection urgently requires intensive develop
ment of the metalurgica industry the country
returns to normal conditions The Ural mountains is
of the chief OF Russas iron supply, and
there still deposits of metal in that But
in order to develop mining in the Cra mountains fun
capacity, quantities of coal needed. This coal
be brought from Siberia. Russias needs in
metal be further through the development of the
Siberian deposits principally the AltaiKuznezk and
Kolchugin mines which contain according estimates
30500000 of good iron magnetic, hematite and
limonte) The total iron deposits in Siberia and the
far estimated about 900 tons.
Turning other metal of Siberia, must
mention the Amur province which contains enormously
rich gold fields including wordfamous gold territory
Maritime Provinces the Amur provinces produced more
than one-thd Russias entire gold output The entire
Chukhotsk peninsula well the stretches of the
Anadyr and Chukhosk districts kamchatka. contain
gold deposits They are, in fact, Il continuation of the
gold lands of Alaska and according experts. contain
even richer gold veins than the latter territory.
Lead in quantities is also found in parts
Of Siberia and the The silver, lead
posits in the RidderOvsk mines in the Alta region
estimated 100000 In Maritime
vince the production of lead 1913 reached 600
with regard timber be said that
Siberia contains half the The sInount
timber in the Amur and the Maritime Provinces alone
is estimated 500 000 900 exporting timber
Russia take, and feel certain she will take the
leading place in the worlds markets