LEATHER GOODS. 



ti'J 



120 men employed; and that of J. Tourlapov in the same district, established since 

 1882, yearly production 52.000 roubles, 30,000 sheepskins, 15 men employed. 



The present couditiou of the manufacturing- leather goods trade, taken as an 

 independent branch of the tanning industry, may be judged by the following statis- 

 tics : the manufacture of boots aud shoes, gloves, gauntlets, harness, trunks and 

 small articles, such as purses, is carried on in 82 factories, employing 2,960 hands; 

 75 of these factories, whose united production amounts to 2,186,000 roubles per 

 annum and having a total of 2,892 hands, are situated in Russia in Europe. There 

 are also 2 factories employing 34 men and having a production of 13,000 roubles 

 in Poland, and in Siberia there are 5, employing 34 men and having a production 

 of 25,000 roubles. The most important factories are located in the government 

 of Moscow where there are 20 with a united production of 707,000 roubles. The 

 principal firms manufacturing boots, shoes and harness in the town and district of 

 Moscow are: 1. Malkiel's factory established in 1879; it has 3 steam engines with 

 a total of 47 horse power, the yearly production amounting to 200,000 roubles, and 

 120 men are employed. 2. Barykhanov's factory, founded in 1839, engaged in the 

 manufacture of artillery harness, yearly production 185,000 roubles, 80 men em- 

 ployed. 



The glove factories are very numerous and vary greatly in size, from the 

 smallest which turn out less than 1,000 dozen per annum, to the largest, like Timis- 

 ter's factory, which turns out 10,000 dozen, worth 150,000 roubles; this firm employs 

 120 men and has one 8 horse power steam engine. Sorokiu's factory turns out 

 5,000 dozen per annum ; it was founded in 1871 ; Doubensky's factory has about 

 the same production. 



The St-Petersbiu'g factories are in point of production by no means inferior 

 to those of Moscow. The St-Petersburg manufactoi'y for machine-made boots and 

 shoes, established in 1877, has a yearly production of 600,000 roubles and turns out 

 over 200,000 pairs of men and women boots and shoes ; the machinery is driven 

 by one 25 horse power steam engine : 508 men are employed. There is a chemist's shop 

 and a doctor's office on the premises. The firm subscribes to the Narva school for 

 working men's childi'en. Another large factory, belonging to Southam, manufactures 



