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In addition to the above, about 2,487 kilograms of gold, valued at 6,915,752 marks, were produced. Nickel, bismuth, vitriol, and other chemical manufactures were produced to a total weight of 33,546 tons, and to a total value of 10,941,149 marks.

The total value of the productions of the foundries of all kinds in 1896 was 473,967,705 marks. The total quantity of finished iron produced in Germany in 1896 was 7,382,489 metric tons, and its value 916,787,819 marks. In 1896 there were in Germany and Luxemburg 1,560 works pro- ducing finished iron, including steel-works. Over 224,084 men are employed in connection with the various stages of iron (including pig iron), besides 35,223 iron-miners. In connection with coal and lignite mining alone the average number of hands engaged was 354,708 in 1896.

IV. Fisheries.

The German fisheries are not important. In 1895 the persons engaged in fishing numbered 32,199, of whom 12,224 were employed in sea and shore fishing, and 19,975 on inland waters. In 1896 (January 1) 515 boats (26,585 tons gross tonnage), with an aggregate crew of 2,811, were engaged in deep-sea fishing in the North Sea for cod and herrings. The Baltic fisheries are more developed. In 1897 fresh fish to the value of 7,100,000 marks were exported, while the imports of fresh fish were valued at 17,700,000 marks, of salted heiTings at 24,400,000 marks, of other salted, preserved, and dried fish at 3,700,000 marks.

V. Manufactures.

The chief seats of the German iron manufacture are in Prussia, Alsace- Lorraine, Bavaria, and Saxony. Steel is made in Rhenish Pnissia. Saxony is the leading State in the production of textiles, but Westphalia and Silesia also produce linen ; Alsace-Lorraine, Wiirttemberg, and Baden produce cotton goods. Woollens are manufactured in several Prussian provinces ; silk in Rhenish Prussia, Alsace, and Baden. Beetroot sugar is an important manufacture in Prussia, Bnmswick, and Anhalt ; glass, porcelain, and earthen- ware in Silesia, Thuringia, and Saxony ; clocks and wooden ware in Wiirt- temburg and Bavaria ; and beer in Bavaria and Prussia.

The following table shows the number of persons engaged in the principal manufactures in the larger States according to the census of occupation in 1895. Additional information should be looked for under the various States : —

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Iron Manu- facture

Machi- nery, In- struments

329,404 49,591 29,355 72,304 24,137 18,223

Textile

Paper

Leather and India- rubber

Wooden ware

Prussia. Bavaria. Wiirttemberg , Saxony. Baden. Alsace-Lorraine

German Empire

334,079 49,448 21,584 44,364 14,358 13,350

441,885 75,222 39,968

267,441 29,303 73,684

993,257

72,250

14,031

8,280

31,211

9,278

2,997

86,692

14,060

7,723

12,772

7,144

4,094

160,343

322,989 76,415 30,537 56,212 21,541 16,324

1 524,707

582,672

152,909

598,496