ADVANCE OF EASTERN SIBERIA.

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 538, 29 June 1869, Page 4

ADVANCE OF EASTERN SIBERIA.

Russia is finding the sale of RussianAmerica beginning to yield its fruits. Formerly, Eastern Siberia faced a country almost a desert, which the Russian American Company could not improve, but now, under the United States' rule, matters are altering. Russian America has received the new name " Alaska," and, since last March, a journal in English and Russian, called the Alaska Herald-, appears twice a month in San Francisco. This journal, in a recent number, remarks that Siberia is called to a new existence by the cession of Russian America to the United States. Civilization and material development must make progress, and there will soon be regular steam communication between San Francisco and Alaaka, and the Americans will soon establish commercial relations between Siberia and Alaska. Siberia wants American manufactures, and America will obtain mineral treasures. The Amoor will be the great link. Close to its month is the Is" aid of Saghalien, abounding in coal, which is very scarce at San Francisco, being brought from England round Cape Horn. The commercial importance of Siberia will appear more and more as the relations between America, China, and Japan become closer. This will enable the merchants of Siberia to take their share in the commerce of the world, and to open agency houses in California and link them with America by the Pacific Railway, which will cause an interchange of raw and manufactured articles between the United States and Siberia ; it will make San Francisco an emporium between Eastern Asia and America. Meantime Russia is preparing plans to make an Uralian railway to link the basin of the Volga with that of the Obd and Irtesh ; already a line is being tried between Tuimen on one side and Serakoul on the other. Deputies from the Provincial Assembly of Kezar and the Bourse of that city have gone to St. Petersburgh to solicit the concession of the Uralian railroad with its continuation to the city of Keza.