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use of the railways themselves, and for the sale of building 

 materials in the districts possessing little wood in the 

 governments of Tchernigov, Kiev, and Podolia. 



' The southern group of forests of the Kiev government 

 is at a considerable distance from the northern, and 

 consists of the forest districts of Svenigorod, Tchiguirin, 

 and Tcherkazy. This group of forests, in regard to wood 

 trade, is similar to the estates of Novornigorod and Krilov 

 forest districts in the government of Kherson, and 

 Krementchug, government of Poltava. All the estates of 

 these forest districts are not far from one another, and 

 make, as it were, one whole area, at a considerable 

 distance as well from Kherson as from Kiev and Poltava, 

 where the principal administrations over the forests are 

 situated. 



4 This group of forests being near the parts of the 

 governments of Kiev, Kherson, Ekatherinoslav, and 

 Poltava, possessing little wood, competes successfully with 

 the floated wood, with the exception only of those estates 

 (principally near Krementchug) which are very near the 

 Dnieper, almost on the shore. 



' In this group of forests the great dealers cannot 

 concentrate in their own hands the forest materials prepared 

 by the small dealers, but must compete with them. This 

 circumstance is influenced principally by the great 

 demand for forest materials by the local consumers, small 

 and great, particularly sugar refiners. The Balta- 

 Krementchug railway will exercise a great influence on 

 prices, as it will afford a possibility of taking these 

 materials to the government of Kherson, between 

 Elizabethgrad, Olvicopol, Bobrinetz, and Voznessensk, 

 where at present there is great want of forest materials in 

 consequence of the difficulty of conveyance. Such expec- 

 tation of forest trade in these places has occasioned already 

 in 1867 great sales from crown estates : for 25,000 pine 

 trees 177,000 roubles was paid. Such prices did not exist 

 before. 



' Under these circumstances, the forests of the Kiev 



