Show GROWING VING USE OF AUTOS IN SIBERIA Consul Lester Iester Maynard Ia nard of Vladivostok Vladivostok stok reports as follows concerning automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles s and motor boats in his consular district At present there is no BO field whatsoever over ever in eastern Siberia for automobiles A few years a ago o there were wore two or three machines at Vladivostok but on account of tho the lad bad roads and aud steep hills they proved pro to bo ho failures As to motor boats the situation is different different dif dif- ferent brent although not very verv encouraging A few boats are in use in this harbor and on the Amur river but lt as the tho open reason eason is very short there is not much demand for them thorn Tho mayor mavor of of Ha- Ha Sk baro says that any any business house in lila his city would be prepared to sell motor boats hoat on commission and as two m f ff a nasa through sk lIah a ri good opportunity seems to represent it itself itself it it- self there and amI a list of merchants in in that place is forwarded There liere is is no demand demand de de- de mand for gasoline asoline or benzine motors the tire only ones ous that would find a market here w would uld be the kerosene type It is extremely difficult to get supplies of gasoline or benzine whereas Kerosene can be found in every village in in eastern Siberia There Thero is only one motor-boat motor builder in Vladivostok in Other firms mi might become become become be be- come interested in the sale salo of motor motorboats motorboats motorboats boats on a commission commission- basis but it is if any of them could be induced in to carry a stock At best the field is very small The names of the time merchants merchants mer mer- chants and the boat builder and firms illI in ill Vladivostok are aro on file lile in the Bureau I of manufactures |