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SPAIN

Name.

J912| Etspana bldg Don Jnime. bldgj Alfonso XIII

18871 Pclayo

1892 1895 1897

1896

1900 1910 1906

Navy.

lUittJeah ips.

i

Annouv

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Annaiuent

15,700

Dreadnomjhts. I I 10 i S 12 ill.

II- H.l>

2 ! 15,500

! Max.

speed

19-5

rrc-Drcadnoughts.

9,950 I 10 I I

2 12-0 ill. ; 9 5-5 in.

2 11 in.

Lepanto

Carlos V..

Rio de la Plata. /Principe de As- "j \ turias . . J

Cataluna. . j

Estramadura

Reina Regente.

4,820 9,200 1,713

deck deck deck

10

7,000

12

101

2,030 5,372

deck deck

9 6-4 in. ; 6 4-7 in. 2 11 in. ; 8 5-5 in. 2 5*5 in. ; 4 4 in.

2 11 in. ; 10 5-5 in.

4 5*5 iu. ; 4 4 in.

10 6 in. .

7,996 I 16

2 I 11,500 I 20-5 G 18,500 I 20 6,793 20

15,000

20-25

7,800 1 18 11,000 ' 20

There are 7 destroyers and 24 modern torpedo boats, and a nnmher of

"nnboats. ^ •, o o i-. i i ^^

A new programme has been projected, to consist ot 3 Drcadnouglits,

2 scouts, 8 destroyers, various torpedo boats, and submarines^

The Spanish dockynrd at Ferrol is now worked by a british syndicate,

employing Spanish workmen.

Production and Industry.

Of the soil of Spain 79-65 per cent, is classed as productive ; of this 33-8 per cent, is devoted to agriculture and gardens, 3-7 vineyards, 1-6 olive culture, 19-7 natural grass, 20-8 fruits.

The soil is subdivided among a very large number of P^opnetois.- Ut 3,426,083 recorded assessments to the property tax, there are/)24,yzu properties which pay from 1 to 10 reales ; 511,666 from 10 to 20 reales ; 642:377 from 20 to 40 reales ; 788,184 from 40 to 100 reales ; 416,546 from 100 to 200 reales; 165,202 from 200 to 500 reales; while the rest, to the number of 279,188, are larger estates, charged from 500 to 10,000 reales and upwards. The subdivision of the soil is partly the work of recent years for in 1800 the number of farms amounted only to 677,520, m the hands ot 273,760 proprietors and 403,760 farmers. ,,,..,

•The area under the principal crops and the yield ((or 3 years) were as follows : —