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Show &rZsn j r Mr tV to the " tod SECTION wfll kop - HSt-T- 1 t aMi - 4VJA. U4 I1CK. vfjim&He fyS- t- DESERET. EYENINGr NEWS g THREE SATURDAY MARCH 15 1919 SALT I.AKE CITY AdrrrUng cannot ha "dmlnpoT I i '! 5' 4 s t t t EIGHT PAGES UTAH Opportunities' For America In Russian Mining 4 t r Natural Wealth Waiting to, he Exploited Surface Hardly Scratched -- Prom Cold to Iron , Russian Territory Teems With Minerals Wealth Made in Spite of Lack of Capital and Equipment Romance of Siberia Col. Roustam Bek, Noted Russian Traveler, Tells of Some of the ChariceTAwaiting American Enterprise When Normal Political Conditions Are Restored Illiterate Millionaire Who Owned a Cold Mine Which He Found by Prayer Copper Industry One of the Oldest in Russia, Being Started by Peter the Great German Peaceful Penetration . -- 1 te The story of American Opportunities in tbs realm of Russian mines reads like a fairy talc. From gold and ires ore, tes platinum down-t- o at Russia, fabulous wealth Siberia, the Caucasus, Tanscao- and Turkestan has been meToly scratched. In conns to a reconstructed the awakening which ml! methods which bare the jninmg primitive Bnssia, ONDON, Ilfarrfe Jj 'The most interesting discoveries have been made n basin of the River Lena, whole deep mines (Special Correspondence). 5- - have been worked. PLACER AND QUARTZ. y the Urals and elsewhere, placer .mines in wot the or.Jyon.es worked for a long time. Later 1 when the p! icer mines became exhausted, attention was luyned to the working of quartz gold. Had tha . vast gdd mines of Siberia been developed. to one- hundridth the extent of the Transvaal mines, they woulijiaye output. etill muth-t- o have , do Geologists m tbS out wiU,ranith.,WheUua laying prevailed ,in .gold fields of Silauia Tliej- - form- - too gigantic a , American capital will avail itself orf thtf opportunity task wcr. for the geological department of the guvs which awaits if, depends solely oa American capitals, ernment. Too many tales of hardship havp comet itself. It depend, on nothing else. are out ofSibena to attract people to the Siberian gold fietds Siberia of vast of the gold The story fields. The truth is that conditions in Siberia! Russian state of They mining. typical of the present a Local are morp favorable for gold mining than in Alaska, were never eScploited by powerful companies. , The gold fields of Ycmissey, Lena and Among companies without sufficient capita! undertook their i; of Some well known, but the knowledge about them 54 me in a very primitive way. tovefcpment only very genet al. The Russian government is Int them became very rich. Socle collapsed. Eastern in possession of rich geological material which wants 1 I had a friend near Blagovestrhen.sk careful examination to make it. funuJt a.sCartinj b miners. native Siberia, who was typical of these R for further tha - were situated mines 60 mile from, point about discovery jssiag gold His mineshave never been exploited on a large scale, and it is town. His name was Bielokopitoff and" he was very -- 1 He U only large-scal- e exploitation which can ever do any-thiwell known.amnngj.he Sjberiangoldroiners. SibeVia. ' to in the fields resembling justice gold died several years ago, but his son still carries on s In niteofsucb. a. sorry state, of the business. 76 output of gold was in 1913, tons, most of it Bielokopitoff was absolutely illiterate and could. ' from Eastern Siberia. namer a was fie coming his' peasant simple scsrcely hign There is in southern Russia near Xikitovka s and early in lyfe used tp work in an inn with his lost very kitchen. in the dishes important deposit of quicksilver ore, which has Having wife, washing been wife 'also stated by Russian, geologists to exist in He starved. anchis almost he his position, church the Transbaikal, eastern Siberia and in the to the went Urals, were very religious. They village in In the Caucasus particularly tea ttm Caucasus. the and prayed for work; They passed night dream of had a that' the woods. Bielokopitoff strange presence antimony has been proven in several ' him to ordered and came places, along with the presence of hickel and cobalt, night. His angel protector but the extent of the deposits have never been looked him to go into the forest to find his fortune by thfc told me many years .into. Woffram beds hkve also been, found m the side of a small stream. As he Ji He fransbaikal but their extent has never been in- - . later, he started at once, guided by his angeL . md his ..wife, tramped several days, having no food vestigated. The Urals are aso rich in chromium to know Russia do not and their and under the mew regime which is bound to come has 'done her best ta prevent their development. U k.jis my country and ferrichromium, of which, 1,000 tons a year have with them, but eating berries which they found in into Russian markets its real wealth. I wonder whether America knows, to Russia, private capital willommand every posGermany exported annually been produced. the forest. In a state ot complete exhaustion, he for instance, that Russia is practically the only sible concession. ; $5,000,000 worth of eopper products, although RusBeds of iron pyrites have been found in the pproached a small stream to satisfy his thirst; sia has far more than enough .copper for her own country in the world producing platinum in any . I repeat again that I am absolutely convinced He forBeside it he found a small piece of gold. Urals and in tKe"Ol&Rgtzk region in the north. that America and only America can help us ouf of uses. Thanks to the efforts of the Duma in 1906, amount. - ..Thure are .traces of. platinum in. British Molybdena, bismuth and vanadium, very rare metals, got his fatigue at once and began lookingjfor gold. our" present mining situation. this peaceful penetration on the part of Germany was Columbia and in Queensland, Australia, hut Rushave also been discovered but never investigated. Harking tee place, he returned to All sorts of minerals are found in Russia. One cut off by the levying of a tariff of $2.50 on every sias Ural mines alone produce eight tons of this in a terrible state of health. A month latSalt is found m inexhaustible quantities. It is million two hundred thousand tons of the richest pood (36 pounBs) of copper. The result was teat precious metal every year. Russia exports all her one of Russias chief products. The rock salt of er, he was a millionaire. and purest manganese ore in the world come out of Russias output of, eopper leaped from 17,500 tons platinum in a crude state and until 1914 there was Tletzk is ferrommous. In the province of Ekaterms- The ikon which he carried daring this miraculous no government control, so that tee above figure is Transcaucasia, and the government of the KutaPs in 1908 to 40,960 tons in 1913. Simultaneously RusSlav in southern Russia, jhere are very nch salt adventure was kept preciously in his rooms, covin the Sharopansky district along the river Kviril, sia's import of copper dwindled to 8,000 tons a year. merely the amount which was registered for export ered with diamonds and pearls. I have seen it mydeposits but they are worked only superficially. The copper industry is Russias oldest industry. annually, a great amount being smuggled out ter- - Solar salt is found in the annually. Under the old regime it wag all exported self in the beautiful house he occupied dose to his greatest quantities 'in as crude ere. - American electric smelting plants avoid the heavy registration fees. Grt" tee tee in started and Urals in the Peter it in edueated Switzerland sons were fields.His in Baxkuntchak lake the government of Astrakhan, gold would enable Russia to export ferromanganese in- - "Altai region it was well developed in tee seventeenth Just before the war, Russia started to establish along the Black Sea coasts, in tee Crimea and esand Germany, pfter theyhad passed through the stead of the crude ore. Already a Greek capitalist n century. In the Caucasus, which is very rich in platinum .refineries. The works begun by the universities at Petrograd and Moscow. His daughpecially near Odessa. Boiling brine salt is found in. in London has made a fortune out of Russia's in- Nikolai-Pivdin- o corf pa ny were the first to eopper, it became a very general industry but never ters received brilliant educations and have married the area of the Perm government, along the Kama' 9 ability to smelt her own manganese. . He shipped reached any efficient' plane. Copper has also been be recognized. The export of crude platinum was River and in Salviansk into good Russian families. (south of Russia). the crude we from tee Black Sea to British porta produced around 'Archangel, bot without any system, The general output of gait is about 2,600,000 tons He educated himself in a peculiar way. A politistopped and so far as I know not one ounce of , The a year, sufficient to supply Russias own needs. This ' English have been the great developers of crude platinum-h- as cal exile waa his lecturer. been sent abroad since 1913. Another political exile and sold it to Britishmunition factories, early in with" stich success "that he now has his the waBf Russian in settled themselves quantity could be increased almost without limit' western copper. They In pre-wmad him the 'Russian' papers every "morning.. A .times, 70 per cent of Russias platinum when jj methods were introduced. Yet with own factories in England. in the AtoneTbeA Siberia, particularly Semipalatinsk, third translated for him tbs interesting parts of are now four platwap exported to France. all her inexhaustible supplies of salt, supplies . The principal iron mines are in the Urals,., the linsk and Turgai districts. - The Spassky Copper inum refineries in Russia. . French, German and English paper, and a special " which could take care of the world's demand, Russia Donetz basin and the district of Tula. Thera . company and the Jemssey Copper South company, both secretary explained to him every morning the politiStatistical in material shows that has had to buy salt from Germany to ship to the my possession, , are some mines in Poland, but they are not of great English firms, worked thoroughly, hut so slowly as Far East and Vladivostock. cal situation of Russia and Europe. 83 in 1912, J4.192 pounds of per cent platinum was Can not Americans help us to establish a transTha iron in these is hembrown time the Germans to give importance. for teeir peaceful peneregions Why dont you learn to read and write? I ask-e- d exported from Russia. , Since teat time, the price port of salt- - from Siberia and southern Russia to "" in found atite and favorto ore, make itself frit. The- Kysbtmr corportration pockets, very layers him once when we were spending a season in tbs has risen tremendously. More platinum mines rethe Far East? ii ably situated for development. Many large beds of ation, another English firm,' devoted itself to deBellevue Hotel at Nagasaki. Sulphate of soda beds in the Kuban regiJn; rick main to be discovered in Russia. This, I hope, is a iron ere have been found in central and southern veloping the electrolytic eopper industry in the I have no time, lie said. 1, am too old In sulphur beds in tee Caucasus and Turkestan; large . task which American geologists will undertake. newer have been worked. Particularly but Russia's Russia,' has Ural. sorebut slowly output eopper does to graphite deposits in the Irkutsk region, the famous -matter and it what make, years begin it, Great 'quantities of silver lie in the , Altai disi Sliber hi southern apd on the Tcbukotsk pehinsula; preci- In these increased. arc her a of region waa Russia, order tons 1885, 5,600 and product ly very high learned and have are there anyway? I many money was Russian chief a ous trict. it stones, years Many ago, topazes, aquamarinea.alexandriteS-aad of purltyfhe ore containing per cent ofTrfe&tlk in 1907 it was 11,420 tons. The English firms were people who will tell me or read me anything and to . Tral beryls, which have no rivals; tee asphalt of ii iron. My brother who was the builder and chief en- - helped very little by the late Cars government. On produet and was worked, into many articles which whom lean dictate my letters. Imara and Ufa and the liquid bitumen of the Cauof the Black Sea ports of Potl, Batum and the contrary, they worked under the most difficult yielded a great income to Russia, but since the eman' gineer casus; Siberian asbestos, of which pne factory alone PASSING TYPES. Kertch, several times pointed out to the old Rus- - circumstances, not only of geography and politics. cipation of the serfs, workmen became more exturn? out 30,000 tons a year; mica near Lake Bai- ve met ethers of tee Siberian gold miners h;i-became dlfficq,t to'obtaia and 8llver iuel cement on the BlAck Sea coasts; clay,, fire- pen8iTe , tbe ore rarrapiion Rusbeds gOTernmept of the old toportaaee ,ls0 like Rickkopitoff. stones-Certainly with the passage of 1yinf, ,dose to (heWt-name- d rebecame rich these all Jl; : proof cIf btb(;Kraphers nnProf,UbIe bnsinB' NW port' aid tbe need of srfn regime. Tha English finally failed in spHa of Anno and with the promise of reconstfruction in "-i;' from lead days, however, silver is being obtained n-1' p . Russia, they are passing. They are typical ef the the lead and silver industries are progressing, cent of iron and la phosphoric . in character Rke tor the same reason that their Commerce with Rus-- and in j913 , pODetz, Ural. .Moscow, Caucatius, present state of mining in Russia. ' era parallel lines. - Very rich silver areas are sita-- -- has vnot been "the sacoras the Lorraine (France V nre - ;;; ;. and western and eastern Siberia mines should have been." Turkestan, it zzLz.SS, i3:I think thaUAmerica hae already area the bound- -: 'Altai district of western produced 41,276,000 tons. Yhe richest of the iron ore beds, 'however the They try to force the Russians to submit to tee afed in the. 3 possibilities which await it in Russia.. There ' Thanks to the lack of transport, the lead and Ural beds are the richest iron- pifnes in- - British method of trading in'eash, which the Ros-th- e Siberia. sre no larger possibilities than in Russian mines. ' In great industries have been nearly throttled' by Gerzinc the is an world. The Transvaal goldmines opinion that Thery Magnet Mountain, Blago-- sians never did and never will do. That waa the MI1 man intrigue.! Russia V output of lead used to be of the in so little considerable pite past, exploitation dait, Yisokaia and many other points are tee sites consequence- - of lack of knowledge of Russia, bet of South Africa are the richest in the world. It is 12,000 tons a year, while her amounted to was actually done as to be the merest scratch. There imports true that they are the richest developed gold mines. 70,000-tons- . of the esf of the Ural mines. To work these mines, people, her customs, her language, etc. " Her output of zinc was 11,(TOO tons and not sufficient scientific direction apd technical or-All the technical resources at the command of the better railways and more coal are absolutely necesk' Let Americana turn their attention to tee Jn came from, uermany, expedited. by a very low cus-- i gifizationjn Russia to lift the plane of mine-devet "E nglisS have been4 used to develop them. The Rus. estimably nch copper mines qf tee Caucasus, mriw toms duty. Both situations .came about in 'spite- - of sian gold mines of Siberia and tbe Urals are much, American capital and American genius. which are alpjjrtvrithojtt jfevelopmegtT- hat the oid regime in Russia looked oo the mining by preenre tof"vfry ric,K Tea J and zme 'mines in richer, but at present only a small part of them ;"T.A"'groat xpiahtity W ma"gnetrc'trq :or0 bas'bech 'due to the lack of transport In the the northfcrh Caucasus. Of late British of. capital province fciustry. as a yecat- source of incoitie"and" paW V made available. been have been able to do much w ith the Alagir zinc mines ' f discovered in the Siberian Kuznetsky coal, mines in has also rich are there beds Elizavetopol, whose eopper corresponding amouqt of attention to it. But the ( Gold mining in Russia was started in the Urals " the northern tn .There are Causasiyi. rich Tomsk. further the of Furteer iron mines are in product has to be brought down to tee main lines on province y tariff policies of the autocratic government, with the in the tighteenth century. Encouraged, by, jead and.zinc .jtmnea,.in .the Alra regum wnd ht a the An- - pack horses,...In the Eemipolatinsk province of west-.er-n earfy tick of sufficiently developed railways and qther process of exploration near Irkutsk, along al. i Tujmber- - f otber regions none of which have "been their findings in the Urals, Russians went further amfe-BaikWrked The linc Siberia, there is hlso abundant eopper, but be- and discovered mines ot efTicicntly rmhrbrbiiSnuni; gnkt gold depute in te Tobolsk are A Iron,ore has been discovered, too, on the coast of the cause of poor transport, the industry is at a stand,. negligible. diwn to a pitiable insufficiency. After thfc revoluIs covered This however. irregkm.. region, n Such u minen1 Russia. Hcr extreme end of Siberia. How much re wido wity still. The same can be said of the Altai region. tion of 1905-0the Duma, succeeded in Improving gin forests, very difficult to penetrate and is full .open to energetic, industrious and experienced Ameri- lies knows.'" iron Siberia other in exThe nobody Isnt there a great opportunity here for Americans? of wild animals. i little the situation of the private mining s, is ready to work. to teeir .It has a very hard climate and is canswith whom-sh- e this .fgcond Canada has only begun. but there was no Improvement in transport ploration of When tee Bolsheviks signed the k Wry thinly populated. Gold1 discoveries farther textual benefit along Jhw lines which have reached, i BLIGHT. , THE GERMAN 'o make it possible for private-miner- s to take United.' the and the velopmcpt national treaty repudiated, debtsf old east drew attention away from jhese mfnes until' If? ef the Dumas policy. The prejudice in 8 t Concerning the copper mines of Russia, England Russia, there waa some fear in England and Ffenee. exploration at tbe' beginning of the war was goink ROUST COL. AM , BEK. favor of the private company baa grown immensely, haa done hef best to develop them, while Germany Such fears, I only smile at People who fear for on dear to tee Pacific. 1 f . . ' t-Copyright; 1919, by Edward' MarshaiL As , T ng affairs.-Rtfs------sia- V U' r , 1 Blagov-rstchen- sk Angio-Russia- -- ar -- v a ,,1 v south-weste- rn l- k e -- v , V north-easter- B, com-Ime- -- iV- Brest-Iitove- f - - .. r'! . f s 1 |