GliASS WARES. 



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Next come the governments of Kiev and Simbirsk, the total output of each 

 jimounting to 90,000 roubles; of Astrakhan, to 80,000, this governmeut having only one 

 factory, producing only lamp chimneys, bottles and apothecary wares, founded in 1887 ; 

 <if Perm, about 80,000; of Ekaterinoslav, 72,000; of Moghilev and Vilno, (iO,000 

 i-oubles each. 



All the governments together produced: 



European Eussia 



Poland 



Caucasus, government of Tiflis . . 

 Siberia, in the five governments. . 

 Turkestan, region of Samarkand. 



In 1889. 



9,361,000 roubles 



1,455,000 » 



60,000 » 



210,000 ;> 



60,000 » 



In 1890. 



9,618,000 roubles. 



1,601,000 » 



64,000 » 



187,000 » 



9,000 » 



Total 



11,146,000 roubles 11,479,000 roubles. 



According to the diiferent sorts of goods, the output of the Russian glass 

 works is distributed in the following manner: 



Articles. 



Glass for services (hohlglass, gobe- 

 leterie) 



Window or sheet glass (tafelglass, 

 verre a vitre) 



Lamps and lamp chimneys . . . . 



Bottles 



Looking-glasses and plate glass . . 



Other glass articles not mentioned in 

 the foregoing rubric 



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1,801,400 



There are only three factories where plate glass is made by melting, the total 

 ijutput of which amounts to 500,000 roubles; the other 8, mentioned in the above 

 table, only make plate and looking-glasses. 



As to materials used for making glass alloys, the Eussian industry has no 

 .special methods worthy of mention, except the using of natural Glauber salt of Siberian 

 lakes, in some works of Asiatic Eussia, and of natural sulphate in the Caucasus, in 

 a glass factory in the government of Tiflis, as explained in Chapter XIII, and also in 

 the volume on the Mining Industries. In European Eussia fabricated sulphate is used 

 for natrium glass. It is imported, and to some extent, prepared by Eussian chemical 

 works and is known under the name of ogaroh or arkan. Also local soda is used 

 for natrium glass, as may be seen in the article on Chemical Industry, Chapter XIII, 

 this volume. 



The using of potash for service glass of high quality is greatly developed. 

 Fire clay for pots and stoves is partly imported, but is also to be had at home in 

 great variety, and generally of good quality. The supplying of factories with their 

 principal material, fuel, is of the greatest interest. In this respect the Eussian 



