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MANUFACTURES OF RUSSIA. 



The saw mill industry is evidently the most highly developed wood-working 

 manufacture, most of the mills being of fairly large size, furnished with power 

 usually generated by steam, and employing a comparatively large number of hands 

 Their united yearly production amounts to more than 20 million roubles, whilst the 

 export of beams, rafters, planks and other kinds of sawn timber exceeds 40 millions 

 per annum or double the production of the saw mills, the remainder as well as the 

 enormous quantity of timber consumed in the country is sawn by hand and therefore 

 does not enter into the production of the manufactories. 



The Russian cabinet making and joinery works engaged in the manufacture 

 of furniture, inlaid flooring, doors, frames, packing cases, barrels, billiard tables, 

 shrines, mouldings, et cetera, contribute only a small proportion of the amount of 

 these goods consumed in Eussia, the remainder being supplied by artisans working 

 at home in the towns and villages. There are certainly some large mills worked by 

 powerful steam or hydraulic motors carrying on this branch of manufacture, but their 

 number is comparatively small. 



The same thing may be said with regard to the manufacture of small wooden 

 wares, such as boot pegs, boxes, umbrellas, toys, wooden buttons, reels and shuttles 

 for weaving and spinning mills, wheels et cetera. It must be however mentioned 

 that the manufacturing trade in small wooden goods is increasing every year and 

 has multiplied several times during the space of ten years. The production of wood 

 pulp, which is of great importance to the paper trade, has also rapidly developed. 

 It is worthy of note that the government wood-working manufactories serve as an 

 example for the further development of the industry. 



The military technical establishments, such as the admiralties, arsenals, artil- 

 lery workshops et cetera, are furnished with wood working machinery of the latest 

 construction, and the manufacture of wheels, boxes and other wooden articles for the 

 artillery and other departments is conducted in the most rational manner. The car- 

 riage works and railway shops are also provided to a great extent with efiicient 

 machinery, several of them being complete wood-working manufactories, by no means 

 inferior to many foreign ones. The match trade, which is rapidly developing in Russia, 

 also requires a good deal of working machinery for the manufacture of the sticks 

 and boxes in large quantities. The pattern shops of large foundries are provided 

 with machines tools, also the coach building, pianoforte and other manufactories which 

 will not be discussed in this article. Even those mills and factories which manufacture 



