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During the last three years the following amounts of coke were produced. 



In Eastern Siberia, coal fields occur in the government of Yeniseisk, between Krasno- 

 yarsk and Achinsk, on the one hand; and from Krasnoyarsk, through Kansk to the borders 

 of the government of Irkutsk on the other hand, and lastly, to the south-west and south of 

 Krasnoyarsk along the foot of the Alatau and uplands of the Sayansk mountains. The 

 vast areas comprised by these deposits belong to fresh water formations of the Jurassic 

 system. The vast tracts of these deposits have only been more or less explored along the Siberian 

 postal route and along certain rivers, but even these explorations have already shown the presence 

 of a rather considerable number of spots with outcrops of brown coal. A seam of coal about 

 five feet thick has been found near the village of Koubekova at about 20 versts distance from the 

 town of Krasnoyarsk along the river Yenisei. Two coal fields have been recently explored 

 on the middle and lower courses of the river Choulym. In the first of these, the seams of 

 brown coal and combustible schist crop out at the surface in several localities along the 

 river Choulym, and were discovered at 20 versts distance from the village of Kourbatovsk. 



In the second, the coal veins crop out directly on the banks of the rivers Serega and 

 Ourup, and of several springs near the village of Antropova. A seam of brown coal 2 sagenes 

 thick has been discovered at the village of Xazarovsk on the river Adadyma, and a seam 

 5 feet thick near the village of Kadat. The formations of this basin have been recognized 

 as belonging to the tertiary system and the coal in them is distingiushed from that of the 

 Jurassic system, by its greater density. This tertiary coal basin deserves the greatest atten- 

 tion of all the coal fields of the government of Yenisei, both from the quality of its coal 

 the character of its seams, and by its distribution on the navigable portion of the river Choulym. 

 Mount Izykh rises in the Minousinsk region on the right bank of the river Abakan at about 55 versts 

 distance from its junction with the Yenesei and the thick beds of sandstone forming this mountain 

 contain seams of coal half a sagene thick and more. Another locality in the Yeniseisk government, 

 which is known to contain beds of coal, lies much farther north, namely on the banks of the 

 Nizhnaya Toungouzka. The presence of coal here was known in the last century. At the begin- 

 ning of the sixties of the present century, Sidorov during his expedition for making a detailed 

 exploration of the deposits of graphite previously discovered by him in this locality, also 

 visited the Nizhnaya Toungouzka, where he succeeded in discovering vast beds of coal in 

 several localities, at a distance of 240 to 400 versts about the mouth of this river. The 

 first of these beds was discovered opposite the mouth of the Malaya Scherbachikha other- 

 wise known as the Abramova Scherbachikha, which falls into the Nizhnaya Toungouzhka 



