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laliiisk. TIk'n*' works njiiiiuuoil in ariiun iiiiiil i^Ol^ wlit-n llicy wcio riiuilly rlu>«:'il lui want 

 III liiil. l'o|ii)v iil.so ('i(H'lt'{l tlir Inlldwiiit,' iiielalliirnical works: lln- Alexamlrovsk wliii-li 

 r\r|ii,si\(.|y siiH'lli'il al^'t'iiUlcidiis lead ores, arnl Wde .siliiali-il at a di^laiice of 35 vcisls to 

 tin- iioitli o| tlic Hayaii-Aoiilsk station: lln' Ho^oslovsk works, in tin- ceiitro of the rifliest 

 ilcposits ()[ arfj;(Mitircioiis lead and cuppiT on-s, on luonni Ucikaia at 80 vcrsls distancf; to tlic sontli 

 ol Karkaralinsk : and ilii' In.uinn-i'icdic.liciisk works near thi- Kyzillavsk roal niinc^. All tli---'' 

 works, as well a« tlioso ereiitcd hy Mr. Konznctsov inNir tin; (jraidifvsk station, on tlii- I'dl 

 hank id llic Irtysli, liad no f^naranti'i- lor tlndr snpply id' fn<d, and oidy wttiked inti-rniitt.'ntlv. 

 and llii'ir animal yiidd id coppn did not rxcecd H,(X)0 ponds. 



The Spassk copper smrltintr wurks wm- crfrtrd tiy the hi-irs ol' .Mi-. llyazanov in iIp 

 bcpiimiiifi' of tiic sixtii's, in Ilir distrirt id .Xkniuliiisk ni-ar the hordojs oi the Karkaralin^k 

 district, and from thai lime the cdppe.i pruduelinii id tin- Kirj:hiz steppes coiisiderahly iiicreasti'l. 

 and in ls7() rearlied its liiiiliest iioiinal id' 3s,Mf)(» |i(iiiiN. [(nrini: llie entire peiiud id th ■ 

 existence of the Spassk works, whieli weic riosed in J885, the jirodnetion of copper, at tin; 

 Kirghiz mines varied hetwcen 1^^,500 and 34,000 ponds per year. After the tdosini.' of the 

 Spassk works Imwever, the Kiriiliiz stc|)pes lost every imporlanee ainony the e()|)per prodm-- 

 inf? ivfiioiis of Russia. 



The production of silver and lead at the Kirtihiz woiks was carried on very irregularly, 

 and ill veiy limited i|iiaiitiiies iiiiiil 1883. In 1882 a rich and alr<'ady known deposit of 

 galena and oxidi/cd lead and cojiper oies was explored at Kyzyl-Espe, situated iu the Ak- 

 chetavsk district, at a distance of about 80 versts to the !ioi1h-north-we.st of lake Balkhash. An 

 expeiimental smelting of these ores was hegiin in ]883, at the works erected at the mine, 

 and also at the Kozmo-Demyanovsk works situated at 18 versts to the south-east of the 

 town of Karkaralinsk, and 280 versts from the mine. The galena and lead ores extracted 

 from the Kyzyl-Espe mine proved exceedingly rich, with ahoiii 12 zolotniks of silver per 

 poud of ore and about 50 to 70 per cent of lead. 



In recent years the production of silver and lead has not only increased at the works 

 erected by Popov, but experimental smeltlngs have been carried on at several other mines 

 belonging to other persons. 



The following table shows the position of the silver and lead production in the Kirghiz 

 steppes since 1883. 



