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CHAPTER VII.
ON THE MIDDLE LENA.
Vitim—The Gold Districts—Labour on the Goldfields—“Varnak-Wages”—
Statistics of the Gold Output—System of Mining—Pay-day—“The
Nobility of Vitim”—Trans-shipment to the Permiak—Scenery of
the Middle Lena—Exiles northward bound—Yakutised Russians—
“Pillars of the Lena”—Olekminsk.
At the town of Vitim we also stopped for a few hours.
This place has considerable commercial importance as the
depôt for the gold-fields on the river of the same name.
It is now connected with Yakutsk by telegraph, and is the
northern terminus of the telegraph-line.
The gold-production of the gold districts of Vitim and
Olekma was in former years very large. The wealth of
the Sibiriakoff family and others has been created here.
Of late years, however, it has been diminishing, for the
primitive methods hitherto followed have only worked the
richest deposits, and this in a very slovenly manner. It is
only latterly that modern machinery has been introduced.
Considerable foreign capital, mostly Belgian, has recently
been invested in these mines, and negotiations with foreign
capitalists were said to be going on to sell a great part
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