106 S)I)ERIA. 



lasto of local consiiiners. Only ilio inlcrior soils of tobacco are grown in kitchen garil'-ns 

 together with vegetables. During ilic htst few years the crop of makhorka, bakun and 

 similar qualities was as follows: 



J 880 1^87 1888 188!) 18[K) 1891 



Eastern Siberia . 2G,3()8 ;51,5IO 28,730 20,713 28,410 32,758 pouds. 



Western Siberia . 3;5,%7 3:5,895 33,121 ;{7,902 ;!5,498 40,872 > 



Total . . 00,275 05,105 01,857 04,015 (V.',,\)nk 7;;,0;;<) pouds. 



Ill all Siberia there is but one tobacco niaiiufactory with a section lor makhorka, in 

 wliicli, in ]891,3,4(X) pouds of tobacco were manufactured and banderoles issued to the amount 

 of 44,592 roubles. The considerable demand for tobacco goods is supplied by the import of 

 tlie latter from other parts of the Empire. 



The sugar industry is a perfectly new enterprise in Siberia. It could never arise 

 here independently, and accordingly the Government recognized the utility of olfering the 

 pioneers in this industry in Siberia certain privileges, as was also done in Turkestan and 

 the Caucasus. AVith this object the following order was promulgated on the first of 

 May, 1884. 1. Of the beet-sugar bakeries which shall be founded in Turkestan, in Siberia, or in 

 Transcaucasus and shall begin operations before the 1st August, 1889, the first three such in 

 each region enjoy in the course of nine consecutive sugar-baking seasons, privileges in the 

 payment of excise. These privileges are offered to each of the said bakeries from the date of 

 its opening upon the following bases; a. during the first four seasons the sugar bakery is freed 

 altogether from the payment of excise on the whole of the sugar made in it; b. during the 

 three following periods the existing excise is exacted to the extent of one-fifth; c. in 

 the course of the two last privileged periods the excise is collected in the proportion of 

 one-half. 2. In the course of the seasons of sugar baking, 1884 to 1885 and 1^80 to 1887, author- 

 ization is given to extract sugar, syrup and molasses from sorghum and other sacchariferous 

 plants besides, but without the payment of excise and license dues. The said manufacture 

 may be conducted both in private sugar bakeries specially arranged for the purpose and in 

 beet-sugar manufactories observing the rules established by the INIinistry of Finance. 



Thanks to this measure in 1890 the first beetsugar bakery was opened in the Minou- 

 sinsk district of the Yeniseisk government. In 1890 only 8,450 pouds of beet were treated, 

 but in 1891, 92,(XX) pouds from which 5,850 pouds of white sugar were obtained. The expe- 

 rience of two years completely convinced the initiators that the conditions of soil and climate 

 of the Minousinsk district were perfectly adapted to the cultivation of the sugar beet, and 

 accordingly the extension of the undertaking appears to be extremely advantageous. 



Match manufacture is little developed in Siberia. There are here but 8 manufacto- 

 ries, 2 in Eastern Siberia and 6 in Western. The output in 1891 was: 



Eastern Siberia, with phosphorus: 230,287,500 matches; without phosphorus 82,336,500 matches. 

 Western Siberia » i> 3,614,159,250 » » ;> 37,383,750 » 



Of the 6 manufactories of Western Siberia 2 are in Tobolsk, 3 in Tomsk and 1 in 

 the Bisk district, and of the 2 manufactories in Eastern Siberia, one is in Irkutsk and the 



