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SPAIN.

Metals and Minerals From private mines :

Iron.

Lead

Silver

Copper

Tin.

Zinc.

Quicksilver

Cobalt

Antimony.

Manganese

Common salt

Soda.

Sulphur

Coal (pit).

Lignite

Asphaltum

Turf. From mines belonging to the State

Quicksilver

Copper

Lead.

Sulphur

Salt.

The total value of the minerals and ores raised in the year 18G3 amounted, according to official returns, to 1GG,073,965 reales, or 1,6G0,739Z., and that of the metals to 27G,765,054 reales, or 2,767,650Z. Of the most important of the minerals, coal, the estimated value was 20,202,555 reales, or 202,025/., while iron and lead were produced to twice the amount in value.

The material progress of Spain in the course of about ten years is indicated, to some extent, by the growth of a system of railways, the more important to the kingdom as there was formerly a great want even of ordinary roads. The subjoined tabular statement gives the length of railways open for traffic in Spain, at the end of each year, from 1856 to 18G5 : —

Quantities

172,368 tons

311,161 „

L48,896,000 oz.

143,396 tons

6 „

106.858 „

157,952 cwt.

68 „

1,178 „

566,947 „

1,253 „

344,875 „

452,669 „

316,027 tons

17,218 „

61 „

127 „

14,496 cwt.

888 tons

2,186 „

3,779 cwt.

76.939,474 „

Years

Length

Kilometres

English miles

1856

fr>;,^i

326

1857

6731^

418

1858

853^

529

1859

1,148^2

713

1860

1,91.") "

1,189

1861

2,369145

1,471

1862

2, 728^

1,694

1863

3,587

2,227

1861

4,065

2,524

1865

4,712

2,902