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northern, 7.7 per cent; north-western, 5.9 per cent; Little Eussia, 5.2 per cent; Po- 

 land, 4.4 per cent, et cetera. In 1891 one factory was established in Transcaucasia, 

 where until then no such works had existed. 



The distribution of the match factories of different categories in 1891 in the 

 various regions is seen from tlie following figures. 



GOVERNMENTS. 



Number op factoeies. 



Phosphor 



CHS. 



Non- 



pliosphor- 



ous. 



Both 

 kinds. 



Total. 



Eastern 



Central Chernoziom . . . . 

 Central manufacturing . . . 



Northern 



North-western 



Little Russia 



Poland 



Baltic 



St. Petersburg and Moscow 



Western Siberia 



Southern 



Eastern Siberia 



South-western 



Turkestan 



Transcaucasia 



44 



55 



41 



11 



10 



9 



5 



2 



3 



4 



2 



1 



9 



17 

 5 



11 

 4 

 5 

 2 



6 

 2 

 1 

 2 



1 



62 



61 



52 



21 



16 



14 



12 



9 



6 



6 



4 



2 



4 



1 



1 



Total 



189 



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It follows, therefore, that in 1891 the number of the factories producing simple 

 matches formed 69.8 per cent; safety matches, 9.2 per cent; and both kinds, 21 per 

 cent; while the former method included in 1890, 69 per cent, and in 1889, 77 per 

 cent; the second, 6.9 per cent, in 1890, and 5.4 per cent, in 1889; and the third, 

 24.1 per cent in 1890, and 17.6 per cent in 1889. 



The greatest part of the works making safety matches falls to the northern 

 governments, then follow the Baltic, Little Eussia, St. Petersburg and Moscow, south- 

 western and others. The factories having a mixed production are mostly spread in 

 the eastern region, after which come the central manufacturing, Poland, central 

 Chernoziom, north-western, northern and others. The successive order of the regions 

 according to the amount of their output may be seen from the following table. 



