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87 Austria, with 337.514 workmen; of which 7446 factories and 178.927 employees were in Bohemia.

The seat of the textile industry is in the North Eastern part of Bohemia.

Bohemia takes the lead in textile exports, the total value of the exports of the Austrian textile industry in the year 1904 being

Besides the above foreign trade the largest quantities of Austrian textile manufactures are sent to Hungary, in 1903 this being 47.4 per cent of the total Austrian trade with Hungary.

PAPER INDUSTRY

Nearly one third of Austrian paper industry is in Bohemia. In the year 1904 there was produced 685.574 tons of paper in Austria-Hungary, of which 147.720 tons, valued at 2,185.666, were exported. In that 175.836 tons represented the production of Bohemia.

Bohemia art-printing is at the highest degree of perfection. The three-and more coloured print, heliogravure etc. are of great skill, and orders are received from abroad for printing view-cards, reproduction of famous pictures etc.

GLASS INDUSTRY.

In the year 1902, there were in Bohemia 91 glass works and 77 refineries of mirror-glass, besides 2612 small factories, where glass was polished, annealed, engraved, painted and cut, or glass fancy-goods manufactured. The number of employees was 26.104. The most beautiful glass, for which Bohemia is famous, is manufactured at Nový Svět (Neuwelt), and mirror-glass, as much renowned as that of Venice, in the districts of Šumava (Böhmerwald). The value of glass and glassware exported from Austria in the year 1904 was 237.125, the best customers being Germany, United Kingdom and America.