The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-04
UNTOLD MONEY IN RESOURCES
 OF SIBERIA

San Francisco, April 4-Back from a nlne-months' trip on which he stud harbor development from Coos Bay, Ore, to Seward, Alaska, and from the Behring Sea to Saigon French Indo-China, Professor Collier Cobb, in the University of North Carolina and Kenan research professor, has just reached here from the Orient
 Dr. Cobb is a student of shorelines ogn.zed auth ority, and during his in vest5sation of harbors also looked into the resources of countries likely to develop great ports.
 He was everywhere treated most courteously. Dr. Cobb said, and no where more so than Japan ''The Japanase gave me every assistance at various points on the continent Of for the intelligence fair-mindedness, industry and frugality of the Japa- nese and Chinese.
 'I believe he added, that victory in industrial competition lies with them unless American labor learns to work more effectively and to live less wastefully."
 pr. Cobb has written the following outline of the possibilities of the Far East as follows:
 China has one-third more terri tory than the United States and four times the population, and in spite of the denese population in many sec tions there are vast areas in the north and west of China suited to and used for raising cattle, sheep, hogs, and, in much smaller measure, camelS.
 The great problem in China, is one of transportation. While millions were tsaSving in four or five prov 1920 was selling at 10 cents a. bushel in Szecuwan, 2-00O miles away, be- cause of lack of transportation facil ities. The building of railways and
 l,Hl. the old canals will soon remedy all of this This will probably be the first work encouraged by the Con- sortium and it will be a paying in than the United States in resources of coal and iron and various economic minerals, and unsurpassed in her ag- ricuitura1 products and possibilities. managed. and the Chinese have re- gently begun the construction of mo- dern ships at four principal ship building yards which are capable Of complete. The younger men of China, many of whom have been educated abroad, are able, alert and effective business men and they are all distinctly friendly to the United l States.
 Vast Mineral Deposits.
 Siberia is also a land of vast un- developed resources and unuhi1zed l
  grassy plains and two great forest i beIts-one of conifers and one of harilwoods-she has important min ] eraI deposits awaiting development.
 The Kusnetz Coal Basin in the l District of Tomsk.
 "A large deposit of iron ore on the 1 Pacific Coast along Olga Bay. |
 "Oil in Sakhaiien.
 "Gold at a number of points near the coast, and particularly along the Zea and Burca Rivers. affidents Of the Amur.
 iron. of oil and copper, extensive for ests, and wide grazing lands with abundant cattle, are already known F in Siberia Siberia's development, like that of China needs only adequate facilities. The rivers of the country are navigable for thou sands of miles, the Lena alone having more than 2,500 miles of nav1gable water. one branch reaching almost to the Trans Siberian Railway at IT, kutsk CKatchug) and another within q short distance of the Port Of Alan on the sea of o4zhotsk (Nelkan).
 Either railways or canals connect ing these points, the one through nearly level plain and the other across a low gap in the mountains, would go far toward opening up to commerce region capable of supplying raw ma terial to the world for many years to come.
 English Is spoken.
 '"The wide use of the English lan- guage in Asia is a matter of deep in terest. Pigeon English is not only the language of foreign commerce in China, but it is also the language or trade between the provinces. The Chinese language is written with the .dea-graphs and is understood in all the provinces, notwithstanding their spoken languages are all different we have a parallel in the wide use of Arabic numerals which ere used and understood the world over, though the number they represent are different in their spoken form in every land Pigeon English is writ ten mainly with English words ar . ranged according to the Chinese fdiom with all unnecessary trills omitted ana this has become the trade language of China
 ''Er glish is the only language spo- ken in Oh uktotsk, the extreme north east province of Asia. the Esquamaux having learned 1t from Alaska gold