TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
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Smelting works and
of Works
Quantities
Value
of produce
Number of
foundries
in operation
of produce
employed
Centner
Thaler
Iron, pig
119
13,862,750
18,005,711
23,049
„ scale (Rohstahleisen)
6
941,700
1,541,004
569
,, raw, iu castings
31
633,602
1,761,687
6,399
,, cast wares
254
3,115,033
11,220,819
25,288
„ wrought, bar .
258
8,085,894
26,693,444
49,863
„ ,, plates .
30
1,416,275
6,143,655
7,435
„ „ plates, tinned
1
93.118
924,352
786
., ,, wire
82
661,735
2,816,221
5,670
Steel, raw
40
597,280
2,863,622
5,499
„ cast .
11
1,279,095
12,520,165
10,995
,, refined
107
74,231
675,315
922
Zinc, raw
42
1,129,660
6,925,363
10,776
,, plates .
7
352,873
2,624,118
1,011
Lead, pig
9
552,157
3,220,710
2,361
Copper, refined
11
59,633
1,823,534
2,131
„ coarse wares
27
47,566
1,820,221
1,604
Brass .... Total .
32
36,905
1,289,371
871
1,096
33,141,446
105,641,248
157,499
The trade and industry of Prussia is much fostered by its wealth in coal, which is sufficient not only to supply its own wants but serves as an important article of export into all parts of southern Germany, to France and Switzerland. The following table, compiled from an official report, communicated by the Royal Government to the Statesman's Year-book, gives the quantities and the value, at the pit's mouth, of the coal raised within the kingdom in the year 1869: —
Coal Districts
Quantities
Value
Centner
Thaler
Ruhr and Diisseldorf .
236,020,798
20,551,495
Oppeln and Upper Silesia
111,106,662
8,751,373
Saar and Trier .
70,079,851
9,180,558
Breslau and Lower Silesia
28,222,800
2,897,217
Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle)
17,734,316
1,924,301
Osnabriick and Hanover
6,617,923
776,023
Miinster .
2,492,816
279,754
Schaumburg
1,492,558
228,253
Wettin and Merseburg
1,364,568
181,132
Minden
152,571
25,219
