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MANUFACTURES OF RUSSIA. 



To be able to estimate te cost of bleached, dyed and printed goods, the cost of 

 bleaching:, dyeing and printing must be added to the price of the goods in the rav,- 

 state, and the loss of weight and waste during the above-named processes must 

 be taken into consideration. The cost of bleaching, dyeing and printing cotton 

 STOods of medium quality in general use is shown in the following figures. In all the 

 under-mentioned calculations a piece of calico is taken, 14 vershocks wide (24.4 inches) 

 of 850 dents to the reed, 60 arshines long and 7 pounds in weight. Bleaching costs 

 from 18 to 25 kopecks per piece. 



The cost of dyeing in different colours depends upon the class of dyes used. 

 reckomng per arshine of tissue: dark indigo, about 5 to 6 kopecks; medium indigo. 

 2.75 kopecks; light indigo, 2 kopecks; smooth red alizarine, 3 kopecks; smooth cardinal 

 alizarine. 2.5 kopecks; bordeaux or garnet alizarine, 2.5 kopecks; bistre, dark shade, 

 1.7 kopecks; aniline black corrodent, 2 kopecks; red congo and benzo-pourpourine. 

 2 kopecks; naphthol of different shades and colours, 1.5 kopecks; garnet or bordeaux, 

 dyed with fuchsin, grenadine, or Bismack, 2.5 kopecks; lilac and violet, 2.75 kopecks: 

 azure and dark blue, 2 to 2.75 kopecks; green, 2.25 kopecks. For printed goods it is 

 difficult to give any general or average figures as the fluctuation in the cost of 

 manufacture is very great and depends, firstly, on the amount of printing colours 

 used, which in turn depends on the character of the design and the depth to which 

 the printing rollers are engraved; secondly, on the price of the colours used; thirdly, 

 on the number of times the printed matter passes through the machine, and the numbei- 

 I if different processes it undergoes before it reaches a finished state. It can be stated, 

 but approximately, that the cost of printing at the majority of Eussian print works 

 is from 1.75 to 6 kopecks per arshine, and for the more predominant kinds, from 2.5 

 To 3 kopecks per arshine. 



Prices of cotton and cotton manufactures. 



In order to explain the commercial side of the Russian cotton manufacturing 

 industry, the commercial value of raw cotton and cotton goods is given below. 



Prices of r aw cotton. 



* Middling Upland'cotton. 

 ** Average prices of classes of American cotton, quoteil on the Moscow exchange. 



