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 TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

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increase of traffic. The total annual amount guaranteed by the Russian Government to railways on the 1st of January, 1870, was 23,700,000 roubles, or 3,504,000/. the portion guaranteed on opened lines being 2,798,000/.

The manufactures of Russia are comparatively of no great im- portance, although a notable impulse has been given to many of them since the end of the Crimean war. The following table gives a summary statement, after official returns, of the number of the principal manufactories, the value of their produce, and the number of persons employed by them in 1866 : —

Principal manufactories

Number

Value of produce

Number of persons employed

Sil. Roubles

Woollen cloth. . . ..

365

26,082,702

71,797

Other woollen goods.

120

6,364,193

13,031

Fine assorted woollen goods

51

4,653,790

7,242

Cotton yarn

35

26,111,093

21,711

Cotton manufactures

388

12,607,003

36,407

Linen manufactures

104

8,027,582

16,642

Hempen goods and cordage

147

4,300.952

5,055

Silk and trimming manufactories

326

5,483,944

8,957

Gold wares and epaulets

24

1,055,532

676

Paper, writing and other kinds

188

6,140,826

11,829

Tobacco and snuff

263

7.735.252

6,002

Linen yavn, dyed and twisted

348

21.193,472

22.723

Agricultural implements

970

9,438,753

5.723

Machinery ....

103

12,190,079

14,690

Sugar and molasses. .

432

31,081,501

54.980

Tallow ....

1,254

12,949,617

6,716

Stearine ....

13

5,701.859

1,761

Tanneries ....

2,508

16,564,417

12.169

Brandy distilleries

Total of principal and ot manufactories

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1,446

52,302,079

30,790

15,453

325,859,664

464,610

The mining and metallurgic industries of the empire are among those Avhich have made the greatest progress in recent years. Vast establishments for producing machinery, tools, and other articles made of steel, iron, and copper have been founded in the Oural provinces, especially the governments of Orenbourg and Perm, which, served by skilful workmen, attracted from Germany, tend to exclude, at no distant period, the highly-taxed foreign goods of the same kind.