THE L. URQUHART CONCESSION

903S
RECORD OF A CONVERSATION WITH THE MANAGER OF THE RIDDER
MINES
[Between September 12 and 17, 1921]
The English flooded the mines
---------- and took away some important parts
---------- we pumped out part of it
---------- - built a dam and can finish building an electric
power] station (100,000 horsepower)
2 strong rivers, Ulba (?) and Gramatukha?
------* — 500,000 poods of ore
mined in 4 months
7% copper
? 16 lead
? 10? zinc
Telegraph address: Ust-Kamenogorsk. Ridder Mine.
Elisei Frolovich Domnenko. Manager of the Ridder
Mines.
Engineer Bredikhin Ivan Kuzmich. Head of the Electro- lytic plant.
1 The date is established, according to a certificate from the secretary of the Council of People's Commissars that the manager of the Ridder mines, Domnenko, will be in Moscow until September 17, 1921 (see above, p. 64 of the Collection).
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NOTES ON A CERTIFICATE ON THE COMPOSITION OF THE COMMISSION FOR
NEGOTIATIONS WITH SURKA RTOM.
[Between September 13 and October 5, 1921]1
The following participated in the negotiations with L. Urquhart on the transfer of Kyshtym, Ridder, and Ekibastuz to him as a concession:
1. Main commission:
1) Comrade Krasin
2) Comrade Bogdanov
3) Comrade Krzhizhanovsky (due to Comrade Krzhizhanovsky's illness at the last meeting, Comrade Sereda replaced him).