Note 12 — Chapter XX · FROM KRASNOIARSK TO ALEXANDREFFSKY.
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Manufacturing industry, properly speaking, has no real importance in Siberia, except in distilling from grain and potatoes the alcohol which is sold in numberless taverns. Reckoning factories and distilleries together, there were, in 1876, according to Réclus, 1,100 factories and 4,000 workmen, which produced manufactures to the value of £800,000.