PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY 1209
Salt production in Russian Empire for five years, in thousands of pouds : —
—
1906
1907
1908
190.9
1910
Rock salt
From salt marshes
From brine by evaporation
31,047
47,462 27,109
29,056 59,443 25,372
31,243 57,041 26,474
32,745 75,832 30,301
32,156 64,737 29,362
Total
105,618
113,871
114,758
138,938
126,255
The number of persons engaged in the making and working of metals was 530,165 in 1910,
IV, Manufactures,
According to the last statistics published by the Department of Industry of the Ministry of Finance, the number of all kinds ot industrial establish- ments under the inspectors of manufactories, in European Russia proper, Poland, and four governments of the Caucasus (Baku, Kutais, Tiflis, and Black Sea), was, on January 1, 1911, 15,721, employing 1,951,955 work- people : 1,227,360 men, 521,236 women, and 203,359 children (118,007 males, and 85,352 females).
Alcohol production of the last five years (ending June 30) :-
1907-08
2,610 115,106
1908-09
1909-10
1901-11
1911-12
Number of distilleries Production of alcohol in 1,000 gallons
2,625 123,211
2,809 114,278
2,881 133,454
2,916 121,088
Sugar production of the last five years (ending June 30) : —
—
1907-08
190°-O9
274
1,389,543
68,326
1909-10
277
1,666,108
85,556
1910-11
275
1,625,536
92,596
1911-12
Number of sugar works
Area under beetroot, in acres .
Sugar production, in 1,000 pouds
278
1,517,083
76,046
282
1,923,013
121,340
The share capital of various financial, manufacturing, industrial, steam- ship and other enterprises in operation in Russia, numbering 1411, was estimated, in 1905, at 2,156,986,021 roubles. (Nearly 20 per cent, repre- sented the capital of foreign companies).
V. Fisheries,
Russia ranks third among the fish and deep-sea food-producing countries of the world. The total yield of fish amounts to about 1,206,000,000 pounds per annum. This is, however, by no means sufficient for the ])opulation of the vast Empire. The shortage is made up by imports of all kinds of low-priced fish, especially cod-fish and herrings ; Russia's purchases of the former aggregate 90,000,000 pounds and of the latter 396,000,000 pounds.
A steady falling off' in the catch of all the various species of fish is noticed in European Russia, According to oflacial data, the } jeld of fish in European
