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HUNGARY
The forests are mostly situated in the Carpathians. In 1896 the Hun- garian exports of timber and forest products amounted to 7,961,777 metric centners, vahied at 33,534,424 florins, and the imports to 3,636,633 metric centners, valued at 19,138,534 florins.
II.— MIXING.
In Hungary Avere employed in mining and smelting works (1897) 54,748 men, 2,373 women, and 4,961 children, total, 62,082 persons ; in saltworks, 2,042 men, and 165 children, total, 2,208 persons.
The following table shows the value of the mineral and furnace products in florins : —
Mining products
1896
1897
Furnace products
1896
1897
j
- Gold & silver ores
Gold, silver, lead and copper con- taining ores .
Copper ore
Lead ore . 1 Iron ore .
Coal .
Lignite
Manganese ore .
Various ores
Total
713,064
1,049,685
182
298,986
3,023,945
5,845,791
12,573,124
2,087
20,179
760,471
1,163,215
4,395
330,214
3,778,287
6,034,445
12,541,026
9,958
28,117
Gold . Silver Pig iron Copper Lead . Briqnettes". Antimony ore . Antimony crude
and antimony
regulus . Iron pyrites Various
5,261,300
1,178,900
15,337,100
77,300
265,800
247,300
55,700
146,400
226,400 465,100
5,030,168
1,536,608
16,020,882
113,749
368,466
216,203
85,299
156,368 176,457 561,992
24,266,192
23,527,043
^24,650,128
Total
23,261,300
III.— MANUFACTURES.
In Hungary (including Croatia and Slavonia) in 1890, there were em- ployed in the various manufacturing industries 913,010 persons ; or 5 '26 per cent of the population. Of these the most numerous were those working in clothing, 185,148 ; in building, 94,212 ; in wood and timber, 93,625 ; in iron and metals, 89,385; in food stuff's, 81,277 ; in animal products, 31,786 ; in textile industries, 31,349 ; in leather and skins, 26,080 ; in machinery, 13,507 ; in earthenware and glass, 12,196; in coach-building, 10,493; in chemical products, 8,315; in printing, 8,996. Including families and domestic ser- vants the total numl)er of those dependent on the industries was 2,157,280 ; or 12 '43 per cent of the population.
In 1897 there were 101 breweries which brewed 1,597,086 hectolitres of beer; 75,020 distilleries, which produced 1,026,593 hectolitres of alcohol ; 20 active sugar factories employing 10,985 workpeople, and yielding 1,688,521 metre-centners of sugar. The number of tobacco manufactories (tobacco manufacturing being a State monopoly) was 19, occupying 19,493 work- people and producing 5987 million cigars and 794*3 million cigarettes. The number of mills (without Croatia and Slavonia) was 20,005, of which 1,723 were steam-nulls, 15,417 water-mills, 712 wind-mills,, and 2,033 hoise-mills. Much industrial work is carried on in the homes of the people.
