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The governments of Poland occiip}' an important position in the leather trade 

 and the principal Polish tanneries are b}' no means inferior to the best Russian works, 

 both as regards the quantity and quality of their production. There are 210 tan- 

 neries in Poland and their total production amounts to 6,660,000 roubles, 58 of these 

 with a total production of 5,554,000 roubles belonging to the government of Warsaw. 

 Next comes the government of Radom with 25 tanneries and a production of 417,000 

 roubles. The principal Warsaw firms are: Teraler, Schwede & Co., founded in 1819; 

 these works have 2 steam engines of 60 horse power. Since 1881 this establishment 

 has endowed a refuge for 190 children of both sexes. The yearly production is 

 about 164,400 hides or 1,518,000 roubles ; over 300 men are employed. The Shlenker 

 Brothers tannery, founded in 1839, possesses two engines of 65 horse power. Here tln^ 

 workmen pay 2 per cent of their wages, and in case of illness receive half their pay 

 and free medical treatment, the deficit of this, or about 2,000 roubles, being paid by 

 the firm. The yearly production of this tannery is 820,000 roubles or 52,500 hides 

 and 105 men are employed. 



Pfeitfers tannery, founded in 1854, has two steam engines giving 45 horse 

 power. There is a school for workmen's children, a doctor, chemists shop and ambu- 

 lance attached to the works. The yearly production amounts to 697,000 roubles or 

 139,400 hides, and 230 men are employed. Veigley's tannery, established in 1869, one 

 25 horse steam engine, comes next; at these works there is a fund to which the workmen 

 subscribe for providing a doctor and giving assistance in cases of illness or death. 

 The production amounts to 266,000 roubles or 28,000 hides; 120 men are employed. 



There are two or three large tanneries in the government of Radom having 

 a yearly production of over 100,000 roubles, and this sum is only exceeded by Karch's 

 tannery in the town of Radom, the production of this firm being about 117,000 rou- 

 bles or 17,000 hides; 60 hands are employed. 



This brief survey of the state of the tanning and leather trade of Russia in 

 Europe may be concluded with a few statistics relating to the industry in the Cau- 

 casus, Siberia and Turkestan, about 1890. 



The Kouban district is the principal leather centre in the Caucasus, having 

 42 tanneries with a total production of 227,000 roubles. In the whole of the Cau- 

 sacus there are 63, with a production amounting to 401,000 roubles. In Tiflis there is a 

 large tannery, belonging to Adelkhan & Co., established in 1875; this firm was awarded 

 the prize for boot sole and other kinds of hides at the Moscow Exhibition of 1882. 



The leather trade of Siberia is principally centred in the governments of 

 Tobolsk and Tomsk ; in the former there are 90 tanneries with 727 hands, the 

 yearly production amounting to 806,000 roubles, and in the latter there are 72, with 

 329 men and a yearly production of 349,000 roubles. The Kolmogorov works is one 

 of the largest tanneries in the government of Tobolsk ; it was founded over 100 years 

 ago and has a production of 247,000 roubles or 35,912 hides. 



In the Turkestan region there are 73 tanneries with 478 men and a produc- 

 tion of 586,000 roubles; they are principally located as follows: Syr-Daria district, 

 13 tanneries, production 204,000 roubles ; Semirecliinsk district, 26 tanneries, pro- 

 duction 127,000 roubles ; and the Akmolinsk district, containing 14 with a production 

 of 123,000 roubles. The majority of these tanneries are small and their production 

 insignificant. 



