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From this table it appears that the total production of the Siberian manufactories and 

 works does not reach 9,500,000 roubles, and that the first place among the manufacturing 

 industries belongs to milling, 45 per cent ; the second, to the leather and sheepskin trade, afte 

 which follow tallow and soap boiling, metals, et cetera. These industries are very unevenly distrib- 

 uted over the different regions. Western Siberia is alone distinguished by a great variety of 

 productions, whose output amounts to 4,600,000 roubles. The opposite position is occupied by 

 the Amour-Littoral borderland, whose production is about one million roubles. On the whole 

 the manufacturing industry of Siberia is at present in an embryonic condition. Different 

 industries arise and develop merely for the satisfaction of local requirements, in consequence 

 of which the business of industrial and commercial undertakings of Siberia are extremely 

 limited. 



