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the most extensive acreage of first-class farm land 

 anywhere found on the globe. It has about fifty per 

 cent, of the timber north of the equator. It has large 

 known deposits of iron, manganese, coal, oil, copper, 

 platinum, gold, and silver; while minerals of lesser 

 importance, such as asbestos, graphite, lead, mercury, 

 salt, tin, and zinc, are being produced. Eighty-five 

 per cent, of the population live in the country. The 

 remaining fifteen per cent, make up the population of 

 the cities, of which there are over two hundred in the 

 Empire. Sixty-five of these cities have a population 

 of over fifty thousand, and twenty-four a population 

 in excess of one hundred thousand. One hundred 

 and fifty-three million of the 174,000,000 inhabitants 

 live in Russia in Europe, which in area is only one 

 sixth of the Empire. Twenty-one million occupy 

 Siberia and Central Asia. Siberia, more than one 

 half of the Empire, has only ten million people. 



In many ways Russia, today, presents an enlarged 

 picture of the United States at the close of the Civil 

 War, with its population then occupying the territory 

 east of the Mississippi River, and with a great unoccu- 

 pied and undeveloped public domain lying beyond. 

 Just as the United States then turned to the develop- 

 ment of its public lands and mineral deposits in the 

 West, and to the organization of industries in the 

 East, Russia is now taking stock of her great timber 

 resources, her fertile unoccupied lands, the hidden 

 treasures of her mountain ranges, and turning her 

 attention to the organization of industries in her more 

 thickly populated sections, for only in this way can 



