Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1875, Volume II

No. 501.
Mr. Schuyler to Mr. Fish.

Legation of the United States,
St. Petersburg, April 23, 1875. (Received May 14.)

No. 107.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that, according to the “Odessa Messenger,” on the initiative of the minister of domains, the Mennonites, called into the military service by the conscription, will be organized into companies of workmen and employed in forest cultivation on the lands belonging to the state in South Russia.

An official of the minister of domains has been sent to Odessa to organize this useful enterprise, and in general to study the question of forest-planting in the country.

I have, &c.,

EUGENE SCHUYLER.