Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1917 — Siberia's Resources Unrivaled. [ARTICLE]

Siberia's Resources Unrivaled.

Siberia is believed to be destined one day to become the richest country in the world, for it has a natural wealth so diversified and as yet almost untouched, that it has no rival in the old world. Before the war Siberia was producing from 1,000,000 to 1,300,000 tons of flour a year. As a grazing country it has no limits, and it exports large quantities of leather, tallow and butter. Its forests are almost-** Inexhaustible, and it supplies furs to all the world. Its mineral wealth can only be guessed at, for the greater part of the country has never been prospected. But there are several enormous deposits of oiL