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MAXLTACTUKES OF RUSSIA. 



in the processes of distillatiou and imritication, and which have to be consumed for 

 conducting the actual process of distillation, not more than 80 parts of useful products. 

 Hence the 280 million pouds of naphtha now produced should give about 225 million 

 ponds of products. Out of this amount only 60. or at most 80 million pouds could be 

 cheaply and protitably exported through the Transcaucasian Eaihvay from Baku to 

 Batoum for foreign consumption and 30, or at most 40 million pouds can be trans- 

 ported along the Volga for home consumption; this forms a total of from 90 to 

 120 million pouds per annum, that is, about one-third of the annual production of 

 naphtha, or less than half of the possible amount of naphtha products. 



Moreover, the entire utilization of the Baku naphtha is dependent upon the 

 construction of lamps designed for burning the heavy safety oils, and this requires a 

 particularly great perseverance, and forms a matter for the immediate future, and which 

 can only be realized when the laying down of the Baku-Batoum pipe line gives the 

 possibility of transporting from Baku not only those 50 to 70 million pouds of naphtha 

 products which the railway is capable of carrying, but also raw naphtha to be treated 

 on the shores of the Black Sea. As the matter now stands, the treatment of the Baku 

 naphtha tends towards the production of only 30 per cent of distillation products, 

 while the remainder forms the so-called refuse, consisting of the mixture which re- 

 mains after distilling off the kerosene, when the ordinary light refuse is obtained, or 

 after the distillation of the kerosene, intermediary, and lubricating oils, when the 

 heavy abovementioued refuse is obtained. This refuse is employed as fuel in the place 

 of coal, and is produced to the amount of about two-thirds of the weight of the raw 

 Baku oil, A portion of this quantity, is consumed in the processes of distillation at 

 the naphtha works themselves, and a far smaller amount is sold and exported, as is 

 seen in the following data relating to Baku. 



