THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2177, 24 June 1890, Page 4

THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA.

The development r>f Russia (.says tho ' City Leader') U proceeding ap«c<\ There is hardly any weal h-(>r<>ducing substance that is not to befou'd within the vast dominions of the (.'zir, and the exploration of the country is being vigorously prosecu cd. Russia has fairly settlfid down as her own te^grower, aud no* she proc-oses to producrt lier own cotton. In Central A*id the Rusßian merchants learned the industry, yast quantities bein^ grown there by them, nnd now the culture ia taking root in Russia proper. Exp&'i- ; ments have been made in the V.» Hey of the Don and proved highly successful, and more will be heard of the matter

by-andbye. T<e Rus-ian Govern* .ment ia evidently determined to im- ' press the semi-civilised Turkomans with a sense of its greatness. An ex-

. .HijSition ia to be held at Tashkend this 1 • year, devoted to agricultural and commercial interests \ but a departmont U to i»a reserved for locomotives sad

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railway appliances. A railway engine seems to these Asiatics a fugitive from Gehenna, aud the locomotive hall will strike tbem much as a den of lions or a tank of hippopotami would strike us.