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The following table shows the fxuantities and values, respectively, of the leading minerals and furnace products of Austria in 1896 : —
Minerals
Metre- centners
Florins
Products
Metrfe- centners
Florins
Salt of all kinds Black coal Brown coal Silver ore . Iron ore Lead ore . Gold ore
3,089,332
98,995,216
188,825,365
187,010
14,486,148
173,629
4,160
22,985,353
35,254,925
36,227,608
1,921,533
3,446,479
1,058,564
48,412
Pig iron Silver Lead . Zinc . Quicksilver Copper Gold .
8,169,669 39^904 97,695 68,883 56,428 10,013 698
1
28,780,876 1
2,140,9i3
1,527,216
1,285,391
1,149,695
552,957
98,913
III. Sea ^C'ls^ERlEs.
rears
No. of Boats
Value daught in florins
No. of Fishel-s
Summer
Wlntet
Summer Winter
Summer
Winter
1896-97 1895-96 1894-95 1893-94 1892-93
3,642 3,531 3,404 3,437 3,342
3,218 3,073 3,101 3,079 3,147
1,638,217 [1,122,547 1,746,777 :1,084,922 1,615,469 ,1,054,146 1,799,531 |1,028,049 1,499,127 |1,039,504
14,220 13,799 14,385 13,176 12,518
12,528 11,623 11,816 11,712 11,731
IV. ManufactuIies.
In Austria, in the year 1890, there were employed in the various maiiU* facturing industries 2,880,897 persons, of whom 2,144,606 were workmen and 99,128 labourers. Including families and domestic servants the total number of those dependent on the industries Was 6,155,510. For the pre- paration of metals and the manufacture of metal wares there Were 971 establishments with 99,353 work-people ; for machinery 506 with 57,129 Work- people ; in the stoneware and glass industries there were 1,173 establishments with 72,547 work-people, 38,131 of whom were in Bohemia. The number of textile factories was 2,287 with 296,481 work-people, of whom 155,098 Were in Bohemia. There were 3,047 factories for alimentary substances with 149,195 work-people, and 592 chemical factories with 33,264 work-people.
In the various textile industries there were employed 1,970 steam engines with a total of 113,281 horse-power. For cotton-spinning there were 153 establishments with 2,392,356 spindles, employing 33,815 work-people. For cotton-weaving there were 194 establishments with 47.902 power-looms, em- ploying 48,384 work-people.
