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In addition to this there are three sheepskin dressing linns in Finland having 

 a total production of 16,000 roubles and employing 21 men. 



The fur dressing and sheepskin trade is principally located in the eastern, 

 northern and central governments of Eussia in Europe and partly in Siberia. Besides 

 being a manufacturing industry it also sometimes appears as a branch trade of the 

 tallow and tanning Avorks. Up to 1890 the total number of fur dressing and sheep- 

 skin firms was 222, their total production amounting to 1,642,000 roubles ; besides 

 this, 32 tallow works and tanneries dressed 103,000 roubles worth of sheepskins. 

 Out of the 186 fur dressing and sheepskin works in Eussia in Europe 38, with a 

 total production of 210,000 roubles, belong to the government of Viatka. The eastern 

 region comprises the following governments: Perm with 20 firms whose united pro- 

 duction amounts to 139,000 roubles, Saratov with 24 firms and a production of 

 77,000 roubles, and Kazan with 3 firms and a production of 52,000 roubles. 



The largest firms of the government are located in the town and district of 

 Slobodsk, one of the principal in that town being Shelvakov's. which makes a speciality 

 of sheepskins and sheepskin coats, their yearly production being about 25,000 

 of the former and 4,500 of the latter; they employ 40 men and do business to the 

 amount of 30,000 roubles a year. Another large establishment belonging to Eospo- 

 pov dresses 300,000 squirrel skins per annum, costing 32,000 roubles and employing 

 12 men. Oglobin's factory in Slobodsk has a j^early production of 29,000 roubles and 

 manufactures fur coats and jackets and sheepskin pelisses, employing 50 men. The centre 

 of the fur dressing industry of the government of Perm is the town and district of 

 Shadrinsk the principal firm being that of Botshagov, established in 1881, and having 

 a production of 60,000 roubles a year. The chief fur dressing works in the government 

 of Vladimir are that of Tourpanov, founded in 1882, the yearly production amounting 

 to 60,000 roubles and consisting of 50,000 sheepkins and 4,000 fur coats employing 

 60 men; that of Tourlapov, founded in 1886, located in the town of Shoua, yearly 

 production 70,000 roubles, consisting of 50,000 sheepskins, 60 men employed ; that of 

 Poukhov, established in 1850 in the same town, yearly production about 62.000 roubles, 

 consisting of 40,000 sheepskins, 51 men employed; that of A. Tourlapov, founded in 

 1840 in the district of Shoua, yearly production 68,000 roubles, or 50,000 sheepskins, 



