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IMMIGRANTS FROM RUSSIA ARRIVING IN SIBE;RIA 



Such people as these undoubtedly will prove to be the progenitors of a race that will 

 compare with our own sturdy farmers of the Northwest. A group of Russian peasants 

 emigrated to Siberia with nothing but the clothes on their backs, a little flour, some home- 

 tanned leather, and a few tools for carpentry and blacksmithing. The first day they made 

 two sets of ovens out of brick they prepared from a clay-bed near by, and the men burned 

 charcoal_ while the women made bread. Within two days after their arrival they had six 

 blacksmith's forges going, and inside of ten days they had built themselves rude houses, 

 made wagons, manufactured spades by the dozen, and reshod their horses, all the iron used 

 being forged on the ground; yet none of them could read or write. 



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