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water and steam engines employed in the Empire in the iron industry respec- tively was 1,110 and 1,040, showing an aggregate of more than 100,000 horse- power.

IV. Manufactures.

The number of all kinds of manufactories, mines, and industrial establish- ments in European Russia (without Poland and Finland) was 62,801 in 1885, employing 994,787 workpeople, and producing a value of 1,121,040,270 toubles. The 20,381 manufactories of Poland employed 139,650 workmen, and produced a value of 185,822,200 roubles. Transcaucasia had in 1891 9,333 manufactories, mostly small, with 40,284 workmen, producing a value of 40,003,900 roubles, chiefly in silk ; while the 6,496 manufactories of Fin- land yielded in 1890, 6,681, 700Z.

According to the estimates of the Department of Trade and Manufactures, which includes the mining industries, as well as those which pay excise duties (spirits, beer, sugar, and tobacco), the manufactories of the Empire having a yearly productivity of more than 1,000 roubles each appeared as follows : —

1893

Numbers

17,605

2,711

1,199

609

359

People employed

Steam engines

Yearly production

Men

Women

Number

Horse Power

European Russia Poland Caucasia Siberia Turkestan.

Total, 1893.

949,044

108,484

20,766

10,961

6,295

264,030

44,925

1,261

1,056

10,525

1,959

791

115

25

289,404

81,328

7,114

1,812

399

Roubles

1,466,988,000

229,485,000

34,733,000

11,929,000

16,186,000

22,483

1,094,972

311,803

13,325

380,057

1,759,331,000 1

Of the people employed, 30,000 were children. The small factories, having a production of less than 1,000 roubles a year, numbered 103,360 in 1891. The chief branches of the above were as follows in the year 1893 : —

1893

Numbers

Production

Roubles

Articles of food

13,345

500,525,000

Textiles.

3,520

619,945,000

Paper and cardboard

436

26,995,000

Wood

1,373

35,666,000

Chemicals

1,227

40,944,000

Tallow, candles, &c.

1,138

35,229,000

Leather.

2,815

39,571,000

China, glass

437

16,099,000

Iron and steel.

804

166,833,000

Machinery

635

66,021,000

Copper and jewellery

591

19,738,000