Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-02

The Member Of savmillsin Russia /
very considerable, a. the abundance d
standing woods and forests and tn
large home and foreign demand fol
lamber would lead one 70 expect. TIT
industry is most developed in the vicin
ity Of the export ports. and is 10 NOR
advantageous 70 ship the timber eawE
than rough. The official essimat, oil
the annual value Of the product of Rus
man kavmills, given below at 1900. 00(
roubles, affords no idea of the real Ok.
tent Of this branch Of industry. There
IL quite 5000. OOO roobles worth of tim.
Der exported annually from Russian
ports. of which only a al port.oa il
shipped IN rough state, whilst the de-
maud for home consumption il probably
still larger. The estimate takes account
ouly Ut the largest and most important
sasmills. Besides these are a great
number belonging 70 landed proprietors
who own tracts Ut forest and have
small sawiuills on taeir estates. which
are Mt included in the estim ,ts.
The largest export Of ship and Other
tiinbers 10 from the port Of Riga,
whicI is not 10 be wondered at, ~ Ii
vonsa IL one of the chief seats OF the
timber saving industry. In Riga itself
are fifteen sawmilis of the largest size
Worries BY steam and giving employ
ment - l ,753 hands. In 1879 they de-
lversd 1861 sly rOublcs' worth OF sawn
timber. Besides these are three others,
two Ut them driven by steam, az Dor
pat, and others at Pernau and Wolnar.
Next in importance to Riga and st. Pc
tersbufx, Withseighteeu sawmills. SIX teen
0f which use steam Of an aggregate of
3SO horse power, and which employ TAG
hands, and produced in tbs last men,
toned year l, l4l, 200 Houb.es' worth 0f
saWn timber. There are other large
steam saWmills in the neiRhb0rh0od, at
LadORa, New LadOga, SchlusaelburR.
ETC., and some smaller ones, driven by
water, In the Tsarkoe and ZelO district.
Ut all the governments in which Russia
10 divided, that of Loblin contains the
largest number of sawmills, thirty
three, but except those in tho N0vO-
AlexandrOvsk district none are of any
size. At Wendau, in Couriand, is .
large steam sawmiil. employing 131
hands, which in 1879 produced rs 900
roubles' worth of sswn timber.
lu all there are included in the Offici i
statistics for 1879, 3y7 SAW mills, Gun
ploying $3.50 hands, and having an an
nual production of l3.00O,0OO rOub,es of
sawn timber. The actual amount de-
ivered in 1879 Was l3,9O0.Ol3 roubles
worth. Statistics Of earlier decades are
wanting; but from the returns of, the
Finance Ministry it appears that the
estimated number of say mills in Rus
sia (includine Finland) in 1863 Was
IN vuhr.,h s!nUnA Xxx ko yHIo nd
produced 1855, 79S roubles worth of
sawn timber in the year. 1t, therefore,
seems that in the course of the 10 years
1891 the number OF saw mills had in
creased LIZ per cent, the number Of
hands employed in them l42 per cent,
and the value of the product 235 per
cent. This rapid increase has been due
70 the introduction of steam power.
Besiaes sawmills proper, there are
manufactures Of wooden articles, or of
oOrks, scattered through the country.
In 81. Petersburg are lO2. employing
355 hands. At PiOtrkov and in Lublin
are numerous factories of tho same
kind, some Of which employ 100 to 100
hands. These are chiefly engaged in
the manufacture Of parquetry fer floor
ing. At Rigs are eight, employing l25O
hands and two steam engines, aud
which produced. in 1883, 1,25l, 600 rOa-
bles worth Of corks and roof shingles.
At Odessa are two factories devoted to
the cutting of corks, the demand for
which is increasing With the growing
use of beer. At Minsk and OlgopOl
wooden pegs are the article of manu-
factuIe; at Tambov, spokes at Nov
gorod, turnery. Many of these facto-
ries, which are nearly all of small size,
are employed in the manufacture of
furniture and utensils, which
are laoQnered in parti color or bronzed
in the Russian style. Thereare numer-
Gus carriage factories and wagon build
ers' blishments in Russia, bot they
are all IN small scale. OF the former
EkaterinOslay possesses the largest
Is; st. Petersburg next, 10.
At Archangel, on the White Sea, are
two. OF wagon building factories
about the largest are that Of Petroff. Of
Moscow, employing 1913 hands, with an
annual turnover of 49,, O00 rOubles, and
that of Tnliakof. of st. Petersburg,
which employs 1872 hands and has an
annual turnover of 10000 rsubles.
Matchw0od manufacture is q wide
spread industry in Russia, but the
establishments are all small. With the
exception of one at KEW, none use
steam power, and none have higher
average annual production than 1900
roubles. The wood is said to be excel
lent Of its kind, and there is consider
able export TO Austria and Sweden.
In 1869 there were 85 natchwood
manufactures, employing altogether
22lS hands, which produced matohwood
to the value of 48S, 42l roubles in the
year. In 1879 there we're z0 such manu-
factories, employing 52l9 hands, which
in the year produced Loo. $50 rouhlse
worth of Roods.-7imber Trade Journal.