222 MANUFACTUEES OF RUSSIA. 



"White porcelain without ornaments costs on home markets per poud: 



Plates 10 inches, 3 dozen plates per poud 9 roubles. 



Service teapots and cups with saucers 13 » 



Salad dishes, tureens and milk pots 15 » 



Washbasins 20 » 



Oval basins for lish 25 > 



Various thin articles, as ashpans and other small articles . 28 » 



In fixing the average cost of porcelain in Eussia excluding the prices of the 

 last three categories of goods of no great importance, such large articles as 

 washbasins being seldom demanded in porcelain, as less necessary articles of luxury, 

 and therefore may be excluded from the account, it may be estimated that out of 

 rhe first three columns, the average commercial cost of porcelain goods ranges 

 from 12 to 12.50 roubles a poud. In like manner the average price for faience of 

 the first sort of Eussian articles, may be placed at 4.50 to 5 roubles a poud ; 

 the price of the medium and lowest sorts, at 3 and 2.50 roubles, and the average 

 price for all sorts may be taken as 4 roubles a poud. 



The statistical data which, besides the two ceramic branches of the highest 

 category, cover the more simple branches comprehended under the name of potters 

 work and including the manufacture of Dutch tile, show that all the other ceramic 

 manufactures of Eussia, excluding bricks, amounted to 1,385,000 roubles in 1890. 

 This sum is the gross of the output of about 200 pottery and tile factories with 

 about 2,500 workmen, and does not include small home manufacture, this being an 

 object of special statistics. 



The above mentioned 200 pottery works have used the following amount of 

 fuel: wood 15,370 cubic sagenes, about 64,000 metric tons; coal, especially in the 

 governments of Kharkov, Perm, Taurida and in Poland, about 202,000 pouds, 

 3,300 metric tons, which is e(iuivalent to about 35,000 tons of coal. 



The production of the brick manufactories for the year 1890 amounts to about 

 10 million roubles Avith about 30,000 workmen, and the following expense for fuel: 



Wood, 111,750 cubic sagenes, about. 465,000 metric tons. 



Coal, 4,761,000 pouds 78,000 tons. 



Turf, about 880,000 pouds .... 14,400 » 

 Naphtha residues, 80,030 pouds . . 1,360 » 



Total coal equivalent 316,000 » 



Naphtha residues for burning bricks are used in the Caucasus, and to some 

 extent in the government of Saratov, one part of naphtha being considered equiva- 

 lent to one and a half parts of coal. 



Thus, the value of the home ceramic production is found for the year 1890 to 

 give the following amounts: 



Porcelain and faience, together with earthenware and Dutch 



tiles 5,789,000 roubles. 



Total, including the above mentioned, together witli the brick 



manufactures 15,800,000 roubles. 



