It goes without saying that the lower the war a high percentage for insuring this kind of buildings, the free release of labor from public dachas for rafters for roofs, as well as the hiring of craftsmen with fire capital to train residents to build fireproof buildings and roofs, were a great encouragement for the village residents and, apart from the general benefit, would not have brought anything.
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Communication routes.
As you know, communications play a very important role in the economic development of any country. Where they are developed and are in excellent condition, industry and trade usually flourish, because the population has a quick and correct exchange of their products for the products of others. And, conversely, where communications are worse, the economic situation of the population is worse.
It is especially important to have communication routes for such r$fdko populated areas as our army. This was especially clearly expressed during the hunger strike of 1989 in the villages of the Novolinenaya district, where the fluctuations in bread prices were terrible. This is explained by the fact that. during a hunger strike, with a lack of food, the delivery of bread cost a lot of money, and when the harvest was poor there was nowhere to sell it. It goes without saying that with artificial means of communication there cannot be such large fluctuations in prices.
Strictly speaking, there are no artificial routes of communication between the troops, except for the Orenburg and Siberian roads, which cut through relatively insignificant sections of military territory. The first of the roads enters the army - from its western part to Orenburg, and the second - from the northern to Chelyabinsk. The newly designed Orenburg-Tashkent railway also passes through the army only 70 versts. So about
At the same time, all these paths serve small areas. troops, and its entire mass, from Orenburg to the border (of the Siberian Cossack army over a space of more than 1,000 versts), is deprived of this gift of modern civilization and uses dirt roads. True, thanks to the plains and, in most cases, sandy soil, the roads in the army cannot be called bad, they are even very satisfactory, like dirt roads, but on the other hand one cannot help but wish for a route through the military territory and railway road E
One of the private companies in 1897 carried out research in this regard in the direction of Tsaritsyn Chelyabinsk and gave a favorable result. But the question is which of the two directions will be accepted: Orenburg, Orsk, Chelyabinsk, or Orenburg, Preobrazhensk, Chelyabinsk. The first of these directions would be highly desirable, since it would pass through villages and villages along the entire army, and the second, passing through deserted Bashkiria, would leave more than half of the villages of the 1st and 2nd divisions aside. In order to win over the railway society, it would not be out of place to offer it land for the construction of stations for free. This insignificant sacrifice would bring incalculable benefits to modern village societies. And the Cossacks fully understand this, and therefore are ready to give a verdict on free allotment of land for the construction of railway stations.
This direction of the railway route would be very beneficial for the state militarily, since, by overtaking the military territory along almost its entire length, the railway “lothe horns would be reduced by a lot and would ensure the mobilization of 12 preferential regiments of troops, not to mention the convenience of the Cossacks for moving to Lagiri and back. True, the direction to Orsk is somewhat longer than the direction to Preobrazhensk, but due to the orography of the terrain and the quality of the soil, it will cost incomparably less than the second, since on this latter there are a lot of mountains and swamps, where it will be necessary to build large embankments and tunnels.
Debts and arrears.
In 1892, the population of the entire army had various debts and arrears of 5,306,945 rubles. | zr rub. 15 kopecks for every male soul. Such debt was, on the one hand, a result of the unsatisfactory situation of 1870 and the hunger strike of 189t, and, on the other hand, the high cost of uniforms and combat horses for the Cossacks.
Although, thanks to the highest mercy, relatively decent harvests and the energetic activity of the military administration, in the last eight years many of these debts have been replenished, but there are still quite a lot of them left.. (Too 6 rubles 4o con.. per male soul).