Arizona republican., 1921-03-03

for its products. Unless it finds a for eign market for it's products. these must necessarily come more and more into competition with the manufactures of the East and the Middle West
 Tine fact which the syndicate wishes to impress upon the American people is
 that>Siberia is the logical source of raw material and the logical market for manufactured products of the great Pa
 cific coast industries. It is not gen.
 orally realized that the Peninsula of
 kamchatka is no further from San
 Francisco than is the Panama Canal. It IS only 10 days from Seattle to Kam-
 chatka by freight steamer. It there fore follows that the great Pacific coast cities are really closer to Siberia than they are to South America. Further
 more. Siberia is much less developed than South America, and therefore of fers far greater opportunities.
 Of special importance is the enor-
 nous coal supply of Siberia. There
 are no important coal deposits on the Pacific coast, and the expense Of get ting coal supply there is one of the great obstacles to the industrial devel- i opment of the Pacific coast. It is stated
 on authority of the syndicate that coal i from the Kamchatka mines could be ] delivered to the Pacific coast cities at
 one-half the present market price. It
 is also stated that there is enough coal l in the concession area to supply 10 times the number of industries now
 operating on the Pacific coast for 500 years. Under these circumstances the i favor which the project finds on the Pacific coast is understandable.
 To develop these coal mines is to be l the first great object of the syndicate. Its concession gives it the exclusive right to develop the coal and oil de- | posits in Siberia east of the 160th
 meridian. The extent of the oil de- posits does not seem to be so well known as that of the coal deposits. The concession also gives the syndicate 1 the exclusive right to develop the fish, ing and fur industries in that region.
 An Unknown Country
 1 Kamchatka, which is really a near 1 neighbor of the United States is almost
 as unknown to the American. people as | the moon. It is truly region in need
 of pioneers, being in about the same
 condition of development that our own Rocky Mountain region was I5 years
 ago. In 1900 it's population was less than 5000, although its area is more than a hundred square miles. There are a few Russians in the country. but most of the people belong to several native tribes of which the Kamcha- dales are the best known. They are
 
 little above savagery, living almost
 wholly by hunting and fishing. The whole country in fact is still in the primitive hunting stage of culture. F'urs and fish are practically it's only products. These have heretofore been handled by a Russian trading com pany.
 Yet Kamchatka is a rich country. It contains not only coal and oil de- posits, but also rich deposits of copper, 1 iron and sulphur. The greater part 1 of its area is covered by dense and valuable forests of both hardwoods and l conifers, which are practically unused. The few attempts at agriculture that have been made have failed. Yet it
 would seem that some sort of agricul- ture could be established, for native
 grasses grow to a great height, and l the flora in general is rich. The eli mate is not as bad as one would 1 imagine, either. In July, 54 degrees 1 is considered hot, but it does not go much below Is in January at one of