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 MONEY AND CREDIT

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The following are railway statistics of Austria ip 1911 : State lines, 8,050 miles ; companies' lines worked by the State, 3,585 miles ; companies lines worked by companies, 2,405 miles ; total, including short lines, 20,563 miles.

The fallowing table shows the traffic on the Austrian railways : —

— 1908

1909

1910 1911

Passengers (in 1,000's) Goods carried (in 1,000 tons) Receipts (in 1,000Z.). Working expenses (1,000/.)

228,265

155,102

36,379

27,067

241,956

152,186

38,089

30,989

227,800 276,643

132,560 135,777

38,708 —

31,437 —

There were, in 1911, 9,692 post offices. Work of the Post Office :-

Letters and post-cards Samples and printed packets Newspapers ....

Ordinary packets .... Money packets ..... Money orders (paid in).

Receipts (posts and telegraphs) Expenses .....

In 1911 there were 7,039 telegraph offices, 47,076 km. of telegraph line and 237,847 km. of wire, number of messages 22,968,225. In 1911 there were in Austria 987 urban telephone systems with 411,729 km, of wire and inter-urban circuits with 13,587 km. of line and 59,170 km. of wire ; 320,650,240 conversations were held.

Money and Credit.

The following table shows the issues from the Austrian mint and the value of notes now in circulation : —

1910

1911

Number

Number

1,510,014,400

1,594,112,930

287,078,780

314,842,430

285,933,700

308,855,939

71,665,270

79,545,370

4,436,230

4,693,530

36,116,527

37,008,663

Crown

Crowns

179,197,804

189,909,538

176,545,712

184,033,680

—

1906

1907

1908

1909

1910

Crowns

Crowns

Crowns

Crowns

Crowns

1 Four-ducat. 1 Single-ducat.

11,132,132

11,01)9,247

7,994,821

} 8,558,700

9,450,881

Gold .' 100 kronen,

Twenty & ten-crown.

10,811,610

—

11,778,940 82,215,730

18,281,890

Levantine thalers.

924,900

2,470,500

3.228,100

\ 6,054,100 / (pieces)

6,514,100

(pieces)

(pieces)

(pieces)

(pieces)

silver f i-Jl'Sr ;

164,500

249 500

4,784,992

—

—

1,955,500

25,448,500

17,422,935

—

N'ei'^' rwi?/ !™;

_

2,397,200

2,190,400

3,540,000

1,641,144

T3„„„,„ /Two and single- S^o^^n heller. .

402,080

476,080

449,060

646,180

787,58

State notes in circulation

.

(Dec. 31).

2,552,190

—

—

—

—

A.ustro-Hungarian bank-

notes in circulation.

1,982,037,740

2,028,024,110

2,112,907,050 2,188,040,520

1

2 875,988,120