GUNS, ARTILLERY SUPPLIES, AMMUNITION AND IIRHAUMS. 



14!) 



iiig on the whole 2,400 horse powers, 4 Marten aud 10 liot blast furnaces with 6<» 

 melting pots each for casting" steel, tog'ether with 8 cupola and 9 reverberatory 

 furnaces for making cast iron, this manufactory employs on the average 2,500 hands. 

 During the years 1886 to 1891 it produced to order steel guns and war supplies as 

 indicated below. 



This manufactory is constantly supplying the State, with cast iron artillery 

 supplies, and until 1888 executed an order for guns of the 11-inch caliber and carriages 

 therefor; moreover, the factory produces steel casting and other goods, among 

 them railway appliances, as well as assorted and sheet steel. The general production 

 of the Perm Manufactory amounted in 1891 to over one million roubles. Steel artil- 

 lery furniture is made also in private manufactories, chiefly in St. Petersburg 

 at the Poutilovsk, Alexandrovsk and the Franco-Eussian Co. The Poutilovsk Manu- 

 factory has executed in recent years orders for the Department of War, valued from 

 500,000 to 700,000 roubles yearly. 



As to artillery supplies made of cast iron, they are worked at the Crown foun- 

 dries as well as at certain private works. The existing data show that from 1886 to 

 1890 the following quantities of artillery guns of various calibers have been cast at 

 the Crown works by means of cupola and reverberator furnaces. 



YEARS. 



POUDS. 



1886. 

 1887. 

 1888. 

 1889. 

 1890. 



560,272 

 417.170 

 336,422 

 287,790 

 449,161 



