Polevoi attributed the—backwardness of mining industries in the Russian Far East to the adoption of German methods and to German influence. Tf mining was to flourish, he said, it was necessary to throw out German systems and get rid of German influence, and encourage the entry of British capitalists by the free granting of concessions to them. He advocated the forbidding of German " piratical systems, such as practised by Bryner and Hirsch, and of dog-in-the-manger systems of sitting on unworked claims like that of Artzt." Thanks to German methods and industry, the silver and lead mining in the Russian Far East was particularly badly organized. The ore was not even quoted on the London' market (which was the best market for silver),. whereas inferior ores of other countries were quoted on that maret. German methods were quite unsuitable for the Jead and zinc deposits. The Australian system was the only suitable one for working these.
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