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parts joining it of the land of the Don Cossacks, there 

 are, as is generally known, beds of coal and anthracite, 

 and the working of the last has received in these places 

 greater development than in other governments ; still, the 

 prices of wood materials here attain their highest delelop- 

 ment. In Taganrok, Rostov, and Nachitchevan, lying not 

 far from the centre of the coal district of Russia, the 

 price of firewood varies between 25 and 36 roubles, 

 and the rise of price in Taganrok to 36 roubles took place 

 in the last year, notwithstanding that in the neighbourhood 

 the coal industry was developing itself. 



' The crown forests of the government of Ekatherinos- 

 lav are divided into the following forest districts : 



Forest On Ground of Appurten- Waste 



area. lease. foresters ances. land. 



Desatins. Desatins. Desatins. Desatins. Desatins. 

 (Basin of Dnieper.) 



Novomoskovsk, - 6,007 278 262 1,472 1,740 



Ekatherinoslav, - ' 4,364 3,717 226 



Verchnedreoposk, - 4,924 180 432 2,918 



Parlograv, - - 5,373 130 108 494 



(Basin of Don.) 



Slavianoserbsk, - 4,364 288 226 



Rostov, - - - 1,064 47 



Bachmut, - - - 2,688 110 61 



Velikoanadolsky, - 1,746 2000 60 447 39 



30,530 6,125 1,055 2,351 5,704 



' In the government of Ekatherinoslav there are in all 

 101,147 desatins of forest, but in this amount the crown 

 forests are entered entire that is, with their lease 

 grounds, lands of foresters, &c. The same must be said 

 of private estates, in which are included the commons on 

 which trees grow. 



1 Many of the crown estates, by their small size a few 

 square fathoms have no importance in the wood trade, 

 and are incapable of repaying the expenses of watching. 

 The same must be said of the forest plantations on which 



