Siberia's Future.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9157, 29 September 1898, Page 3

Siberia's Future.

The attention oiice «iven to Africa as the latest novel y in the way of continents, in now being turned npot Siberia. The papers on that enormous expanse of tundra.and forest and fertile soil steadily thicken in the miiguzjnes. Stephen Boiih.il (-tniu ibmcs to the July Harper a very pleasant article on Eastern Siberia. He is greatly iirpressed with the contrast between the languid orientalism of the rest of Asi« and the resolute,western energy of the Russian settlements The vase land'is being leavened with emigrants brought from European Russia, the Cosssacks to guard the southern frontier, and the ordinary mnjik and his family to till the soil. These settlers never return. Already Siberia counts on a great future/ Says the writer

" 1 found that yo® Siberian Russian re ga'ds our peoplo, particularly our pnoplo of the Paoiflo slope, with very much hi Bame consideration which we have for the unfortunate and pitied denizens' of Great Britain and Europe. It will be of interest to the people of the Pacific alone to know that twenty years from now all the bread tliny eat and all their salmon will come from Siberia, and that if Sibe' ia should not owe to send her produce to California and to Oregon tho people of thdse Stato3 will have to starve."

The "Leisuro Hour" for July a paper, with many photographic illustrations, on. Siberia, more especially of the,Yenesei Valley. Re* ference is made to the surprise Captain Wiggins felt on finding in Siberia " settled communities enjoying every amenity of oivilised life." Yenose'isk is a stately city, rich with mansions of millionaires, more suggestive of Paris than tho traditional notions of Siberia.