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the population has been exterminated by small-pox and
famine since this census, but each native chief is still
responsible for all the taxes of his district. It is certainly
a fact that the taxes have to be paid in very irregular
proportions; thus while one man had to pay 10 roubles in
taxes, another in the same neighbourhood had to pay
about 20 roubles.
A wealthy Irkutsk firm, the Gromoffs, owners of the
steamer Lena, has for the past two or three years been
trying to establish fisheries on rational principles and on a
large scale at the Lena delta, but hitherto it has only
incurred losses, mainly owing to the difficulty of obtaining
efficient labour and reliable persons as managers of the
undertaking. The immense distance from the markets, and
the bad quality as well as the expensiveness of salt (obtained
from Vilui and Ust-Kutsk), add to the difficulty of profitably
carrying on this business. The time, however, will no doubt
come when fish-curing establishments will be profitably
worked on the lower Lena, but hardly under the present
régime.
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