Until very recently, there were also no entrepreneurs due to a shortage of fuel and railway roads for transporting wheels to places rich in coal. The development of the projected railway road Tsaritsyn - Chelyabinsk will bring to life these dead capitals currently lying in the ground. At the same time, one cannot help but wish that at least a superficial removal of your ore areas would be carried out and their existence announced to the general public; In this way it will be possible to create competition when leasing 5 ore wealth for exploitation. |
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tenants and industrial companies must enter into such obligations with them, by virtue of which they would pay, in addition to the rent, an additional percentage of the enterprise’s income. This circumstance will at least to some extent reward the owners if they rent out rich properties. for a relatively insignificant rent, from which neither the army nor the village societies are insured in any case, since their ore wealth remains unexploited.
Fishing, as a special industry, does not exist in the Orenburg troops, because there are no fishing rivers and lakes. In some villages it serves only as an aid to the economy, and therefore does not have any special significance in the economic life of the population. The Urals, flowing through the military territory for about a thousand miles, could in this regard be a good source of income for the Cossacks, but the river of the Ural Cossack army does not allow fish to enter the Orenburg borders. In small rivers and lakes there are numerous types of fish: pike, crucian carp, ide, perch, asp, chub and other small fish.:
Beekeeping in the troops is also developed to a very weak degree, although in many places there is all the data for its prosperity.
Its development on a wide scale among the population can only be expected with the establishment of exemplary show apiaries, at agricultural schools, where it is also necessary to set up workshops for the preparation of frame hives and other beekeeping accessories in order to sell them to the Cossack beekeepers at cheap prices. With these same apiaries it is possible to
To organize courses on practical beekeeping for village and village teachers. But at the same time, it is not superfluous to note that these courses can bring proper benefit only on the condition that the teachers, upon completion of them, are supplied free of charge, or on credit on preferential terms, with beekeeping supplies. Without this necessary support, it is unlikely that the USPF will be established, since teachers, even if they want to, do not have their own funds to acquire it.
Cheap loan.
Difficult living conditions and service demands often put the Cossack in the need to get some money at any cost, but there is nowhere to get it. This need for money arises especially often in the spring, when all supplies are depleted, as well as during the harvest of sleep and grain and before shows.
Driven by need, the Cossack in these cases usually turns to the criminal blunderer and humbly begs him for the necessary amount as security for things or for work. The benefactor knows his business well. First of all, he mocks the poor Cossack to his heart’s content, and then “provides” him with what he needs, for decent interest, no less than a cop. from ruble to m5syats. In the prospect of losing valuable, painful time or getting a scolding from his superiors for a malfunction, the Cossack agrees to any conditions.
Particularly difficult are conditional loans for work: for just 3-4 pounds of flour, generally costing no more than 2-3 rubles, a Cossack is often obligated to squeeze out a tithe of grain in 5-6 million rubles, the average price of which in the harvest period usually ranges from 4 to 9 rubles. The question is, what percentage does a Cossack pay to his benefactor—whether he is a commoner or his brother—does it matter? This is no less than about 200-300° per year! The severity of this loan is aggravated by the fact that
Nick undertakes to fulfill the condition at the most necessary time, that is, when his own grain is ripe. And so, in order not to offend the right person, the poor man often abandons his harvest and goes to work for the kulak. But time does not wait, the sun dries the ears of his whole bread and the wind knocks out the half-dried grain from them, bringing great losses to the owner.