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MANTKACTUKES OF RUSSIA 



cipal demand is for coarse linen; the export of sailcloth, flemish linen and raven's 

 duck, which about 1830 amounted to nearl}' 50,000 pouds, has now declined to less 

 than (>.000 pouds. Although the export in all classes of goods has decreased during 

 the last fifteen years, this principally refers to yarn and textile fabrics, which have 

 been t'irust out of thf? foreign markets by the cheaper jute goods; at present the 

 total value of rope and cord exported exceeds a million, and in some years has at- 

 tained 1,500,000 roubles. At all events during the two periods of four years extending 

 from 1884 to 1891 the mean yearly export was constant in quantity but rather in- 

 creased in value for the latter years. It may be observed that the Bussian export trade 

 with Asia has developed gradually since 1880, and at present linen and hempen goods 

 are exported to that part of the world to the value of 500,000 roubles per annum. 

 The following figures compiled from the statistics of the Department of Trade 

 and Manufactures show the yearly returns of the flax-spinning and linen trades from 

 1885 to 1 889: 



A clearer view may be taken by examining the year 1889 in detail. The total 

 amount of yarn manufactured was 1,600.000 pouds; by subtracting from the returns 

 of the year 2.000,000 roubles which represent the textile fabrics, it will be found 

 that witii a production of 1,130,000 pouds of yarn at the average price of 11 roubles 

 a pond, the returns of the flax spinning mills was about 17,600,000 roubles. Granting 

 that nine-tenths of the yarn is woven into stuffs and that the cost of the yarn is 

 about three-fourths of that of the textile fiibrics, it will be found that the returns for 

 the whole of the linen trade for 1889 was fully 21,100,000 roubles. It must be 

 observed that the figures given by the Department of Trade and Manufactures, 

 and the calculations just mentioned, include the returns of jute production which 

 has of late years averaged 436,000 pouds, w^ortli 8 roubles per pond, making a total 

 of 3.500,000 roubles. 



The value of the rope and cord manufacture in Russia during 1880 was 

 7,000,000 roubles; from 1881 to 1884 it averaged from 6,200,000 to 6,500,000 roubles 

 and from 1W5 to 1889 it may be represented by the following figures: 



