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 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