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SIUKRIA. 



'riiiuiks to tlio cold climate wiiich, lulluwiiij,' iIk- glacial jM.-riod, many ol tli<- t,'(dd d.'p<i>it> 

 have been proserved to the present ilay in their original form, so that tlioy present 

 an inslructivo example and tiaci-s of a (,'eological period partially contempoiaiy with man, 

 who has even I'di indiiljitable traces of his presence in the form of arrow h"ad> mad • 

 of Jasper and i|uailz, liammer heads, ornaments, coins, bones et cetera. 



The following' table gives comparative data for the general production of gold in 

 Jlussia (hiring the last ten years together with its vain*-, an<l th'- pr-idnrii,,ii in Wi-stf-in and 

 Eastern Siberi.i. 



The number of men employed in the extraction of gold in Western and Eastern Siberia 

 during the same period is shown in the following table. 



