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MANUFACTURES OF RUSSIA. 



information received from the St. Petersburg representatives of the Port Kunda 

 works, the Riga factory of Schmidt and Co. estimates its production for 1898 at 

 about 170,000 barrels. No builder will think it exaggerated to say that the manufacture 

 and use of cement are connected, as an accessory to the building industry for which 

 it forms an indispensible material, with the civil and political welfare of the country ; 

 and therefore, the considerable rise made in tlie duty upon imported cement could 

 only be justifiable at a time like 1885, when it was evident, from the appearance of 

 a sixth, seventh, aud eightli Portland cement factory at Novorossisk, St. Petersburg, 

 and in Poland respectively, that the industry would be firmly and ultimately established 

 in the country. And this fact has not been long in being proved; at the present 

 time, after a lapse of seven years, since the enforcement of the 9 kopecks protective 

 duty, the country witnesses the full development of the Russian cement industry. 

 According to official data respecting the production of lime, cement, and alabaster, 

 it may be concluded that the production of cement in Russia in 1885 was 600,000 

 barrels, or almost half of the present output. 



Importation of cement through all the Eussian frontiers. 



YEARS. 



1872 

 1873 



1874 

 1875 

 1876 

 1877 

 1878 

 1879 

 1880 

 1881 

 1882 

 1883 

 1884 

 1885 

 1886 

 1887 

 1888 

 1889 

 1890 

 1891 

 1892 



POUDS. 



Value in 



EOUBLES. 



1,411,000 

 1,898,000 

 2,105,000 

 2,629,000 

 2,452,000 

 1,485,000 

 2,210,C00 

 3,027,000 

 3,350,000 

 2,006,000 

 1,535,000 

 2,977,000 

 3,262,000 

 2,865,000 

 1,701,000 

 1 827,000 

 804,000 

 891,000 

 1,210,000 

 1,058,000 

 2,500,000 



1,742,000 



1,335 OCO 



1,531,000 



1,602,000 



1,602,000 



767,000 



1,284,000 



1,440,000 



1,605,000 



1,293,000 



853,000 



1,003,000 



2,035,000 



1,546,000 



930,000 



948,000 



479,000 



568,000 



690,000 



534,000 



1,250,000* 



Across the European frontiers only. 



