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SIBERIA FUNS
FOR BIG RUSH
OF BUSINESS
The most important port in the Rus
sian Par East after Vladivostok is
Nikolaivesk, on th«? left or northern
bank of the Amur river, about fifty
miles from Its mouth. This port suf
fern from a number of disadvantages
which It Is proposed to overcome by
making certain improvements.
The water front faces n natural
shallow basin, protected from the
east winds !.y a lbw tongue of land.
The main channel of the river is
about a mile from the city, and has a
| depth of twelve to eighteen feet, de
! pending on the stage of water. There
| Is an artificial channel, lately deep
I ened to eighteen feet, to the entrance
of the basin.
| Hefore the improvements were be
! gun ocean-going vessels anchored
I across the river opposite to the en
i trance to the basin. Cargo was dis
I charged into lighters, which were
j towed into the basin and unloaded
| into the custom house for exantina
j lion Cargo for transshipment by
river then had to be reloaded into
j lighters and from the lighters trans
i ferred to the river steamers or barges.
The high costs or handling freight
may he illustrated by a single com
parison. Good Sakhalin coal sold at
i Vladivostok hefore the war for $5.50
; to $6 per ton, while inferior Japa
nese coal brought Just double these
figures at Nikolalevsk. In these condi
tions the town of Nikolnivsk has natur
| ally had a slow growth. The popula
) tion has fluctuated in the recent years
i between 12,000 in midwinter and 1S.
| ooo in midsummer. The freight han
| died has never exceeded 200.000 tons,
"f which somewhat more than half
was sea borne. Imports from abroad
( were given in the latest oflicial statis
tics as 75.000 tons, and exports, mainly
of fish products, as 25,000 tons. At
i present tlie large timber resources of
an immense tributary territory are
not exploited, and in spite of the ac
cessibility of Nikolalevsk to the plains
of Manchuria through the Sungari
river, this city has had practically no
share in the bean export trade.
Proposed Harbor Improvements
In an inquiry conducted ip the win
ter of 1912-13 to discover how the port
could he improved it was found that
the bottom of the river and of the
natural basin Is formed of alluvial
soil resting on a hard mixture of clay
and gravel. Plans were therefore
made for improvements west of the
present basin, without interfering
with shipping operations.
The new port arrangements are
projected in the form of an E facing
feet from the shore and to have a
east The main leg Is to exlt-ned 2.660
width of 720 feet. It will inclose up
ward of forty acres and will afford
space for several large sawmills. The
southern arm. 1,520 by 530 feet, will
be devoted to coal, kerosene, beans,
fish and fresh meat. It is expected
that storage will be afforded for 100,
ooo tons of coal and for 50,000 tons
of beans, and that there will be cold
storage warehouses for a great part
of the fish catch of the Amur basin.
Th»* middle arm, l.ooo feet long and
'{50 feet wide, will serve for trails
shipment from river steamers to
ocean going steamers ami vice versa.
The shore arm will be devoted to
handling goods lor the town itself.
The three arms and the perpendicu
lar leg will inclose an outer and an
inner basin, the former dredged to a
depth of forty feet. They will be con
nectod with the main channel of the
river by a channel twenty-five feet
deep and not less than 150 feet in
i width.
A raft harbor 1.400 feet wide and
dredged to five feet will adjoin the
sawmill pier on tin- west and will be
protected against wuve action by a
chain of piles and log booms. In case
the expansion of the lumber industry
requires it., a second pier for sawmills
can he constructed parallel to the
first, beyond the raft harbor.
The piers are to he constructed
by driving piles and building cribs
nd filling with dredged material. As
timber for plies is cheap, it was ex
pected that these improvements would
i cost not more than $1,500,000. but
probably the estimate was much too
conservative.
The capacity of the port is esti
mated at 4450,000 tons during a navi
gation season of about five or six
months.
Owing to the war, to lack of money
and to general causes, work on these
improvements lias progressed very
r.lowly. Piling has begun on the ex
treme eastern point of the southern
pier and four godowns (warehouses)
have been built, but there is no con
neetion with tin* land. The channel
; UP t() this island pier is now reported
to be eighteen feet deep. Two go
! downs have also been buillt on fin*
sbon* opposite* tin* proposed northern
arm of tin* K. and there are two go
downs on the end of th« tongue of
latnl at tin entrance of tin* natural
brain.
Dis.Tclvnnt.iQes of Port of Nikolnievsk
I*uf tin* port of Nikolaievsk sutlers
also from other disadvantages. At
low water tin* Amur river accommo
dates vessels drawing only up to
twelve feet, so that seagoing vessels
j Of deeper draft have to transship their
I cargo at l)e Castrl harbor, in the Tar
tary strait. Krom !)• Castri the chan
nel passes through the Amur Liman
to the Amur river and the Sea or
Okhotsk. It is proposed, however,
that the bar in the northern channel
of the Amur shall be* deepened so
that vessels of twenty-four-foot draft
may reach Nikolaievsk. It is expected
that Nikolaievsk will then become the
most important port of transshipment
of fish products from tin* Sea of Ok
hotsk and from Kamchatka, will be an
important river coaling station, and
will In* able to accommodate a large
part of the* Manchurian bean export
! trade. A beginning of (he develop
merit of the* timber resources of the
Amur territory may also be antici
' Tinted
Further drawbacks to navigation
on the lower Amur are the scarcity
of qualified pilots and the necessity
ol i amoving the river markings in
the autumn before the river freezes
and of delaying the restoration of
the markings to their proper places
until after the ice has been cleared
from the river in the spring. The
erection of permanent shore mark
ings and lighthouses would extend the
period of navigation several weeks in
both spring and autumn. Some steps
to this end have been taken.
Anticipated Trade Development
The chief articles of import at
Nikoluievsk now tire salt, tea. iron.
foodstufTs (flour, rice, burley, groats
and sugar), machinery, coal and kero
sene. Most of the imports are transit
goods for distribution up the river
and to the fishing stations north of
the Amur. At present there Is con
siderable railway traffic from Vladi
vostok to Khabarovsk, where goods
are transshipped to Nikolaievsk by
river. It is hoped that with the im
provement of the river and the har
bor ol Nikolaievsk there will be a
rapid development of seagoing traf
fic and that the Amur river will be
able to carry from Nikolaievsk and
not merely from Khabarovsk a large
purl of the import movement Into Si
beria through the ports of the Pa
cific.
Proposed Railroad
In addition to the improvement
plans outlined, it is realized that the
development of the Siberian North
east will not proceed normally until
there is railway connection with Nik
olaievsk. Several projects have been
advocated. One of them is to build
a railway from the station of Alex
eievsk, on the Amur line, not far
from Hlagovyeatehensk, to Niko
laievsk. This railway is favored by
gold-mining interests; some of the
gold fields In the country to be tra
versed are said to be very promising,
and some huve already been partly
exploited, in spite of the difficulties
of transportation. Hut the principal
object of railway connection with Nik
olaievsk would be to facilitate the pro
visioning of the fishing stations and
the rure and marketing of the catch.
This purpose would he served just ns
well or better by a railway starting
from a point nearer Vladivostok. The
line from Aioxelevsk would form a
roundabout route to Vladivostok, and
it is argued that other routes would
he preferable. One of the proposals
I is to build a railway from Nlkolaievsk
| to De f'astrl Hay and then extern! it
j to the south, so an to connect with tie ■
j capacious Imperial Harbor, from j
: which point the line would be ex
! tended westward to Khabarovsk j
j There are mountains to be crossed !
on both of these proponed routes, and
I detailed surveys have not been made
Another proposed route Is along the
j right bank or the Amur from Khaba
j rovsk.
Amur River and Its Fleet
As in most parts of Russia, the
river resources are utilized only to a |
very slight extent in Ktmtern Siberia. !
The waterway of the /mur in Rus
sian territory is calculated at 1,600,
miles for rafts and at 1,200 miles
for navigation, steamer navigation be-1
ing possible for a distance of more |
than loo miles. The estimate takes
no account or She Sungari river,
which connects Manchuria with Kha
barovsl
De Cnatri Bay
As has been stated, the port of
Nlkolaievsk is intimately connected j
with the Hay of I)e Castri. in the Tar- j
tar strait, where, owing to the defects j
of the channel of the Amur, deep
draft oceangoing vessels must now
anchor and transship goods for Niko
lalevsk. I)e Castrl Huy Is situated
between Cape Cluster-Camp and Cape
lie Castrl, which are four miles apar'
H is surrounded on all sides by high
mountains, whose slopes reach th*
bay. having deep shores of moderate
height, covered ith a slender growth
of pine Pi- |s carried away by the
currents running here, but thero are
reels ami two dangerous stony banks
known as the Hast hank and Novik
bank The Imy Is Intersected by shal
low inlets; on the southern shore are
the Southern, i’lastun. Oprichnik and
Tigil inlets, the last never having
more than five fed ()f water. On the
west there is tin* Sotnonskv, and on
the north i'erouse inlet and the North
ern inlet. It)i roadstead is divided
into two fairly et|ual parts by Haaalt,
Observatory and Oyster islands The
outer roadstead to tin- east has a
depth of four to ten fathoms and is
exposed to northeast, east and south
east winds. The inner roadstead has
a deptii of four to six fathoms, and
is more fully protected. I.-. the spring
ami early summer there are heavy
fogs. In the autumn strong west and
northeast winds prevail
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