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MANUFACTURES OF RUSSIA. 



These figures show that the production has lately centred chiefly in the diifer- 

 ent regions as follows: central manufacturing, 20.8 per cent of the total output of 

 the Empire; eastern, 18.4 per cent; central Chernoziom, 14.8 per cent; northern, 

 12.7 per cent; and Little Eussia, 12.6; all the other regions together, 20.7 per cent. 



According to the average amount of the output, which in 1891 reached 534,123 

 thousand pieces in the Empire, the order for the different regions was as follows, the fac- 

 tories of Little Eussia having the largest production: in 1889, 1,592,208,000; in 1890, 

 1,404,108,000; and in 1891, 1,808,174,000 pieces; then followed, in 1889 and 1890, 

 those of the .southern region, 970,220,000 and 814,726,000 pieces; and in 1891, those 

 of the northern region, 873,.543,000 ; in 1889 and 1890, 782,686,000 and 805,659,000; 

 then again in 1891, those of the southern region, 750,719,000 and so on. 

 The smallest output fell in 1889 to the factories of eastern Siberia, 128,741,000; 

 in 1890 to those of the south-western region, 69,406,000; and in 1891 to that situated 

 in Transcaucasia, 128,477,000. 



With regard to the kind of matches made (phosphorous and safety matches) 

 the first place in the making of simple phosphorous matches must be allotted for all 



