and which do not therefore compete with any vested interests. All these would make profitable cargoes to Krasnoyarsk. The return cargo would be grain, which in the autumn is phenomenally cheap (1s. 6d. per bushel), timber, of which there is an endless field for export at cheap prices, and hides.
An expedition with such a cargo as this in a 1500-ton vessel drawing fifteen feet of water ought to be successful financially on this Yenisei route. But any idea of a successful voyage with an import cargo of general goods from Western Europe, in competition with the manufacturers of European Russia, should be discarded as altogether impracticable under the conditions, which at present control the economic relations between Siberia and European Russia.
