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Government) for iron and copper, manganese, chromium, quicksilver, and coal. In 1910 the output of coal was 706,659 tons, of iron ore 133,332 tons, of manganese 4,000 tons. The miners employed numbered 3,051. The out- put of metals in 1910 consisted of raw iron, 48,842 tons (3,493,070 crowns) and wrought iron, 27,363 tons, value, 4,367,220 crowns; cast-iron goods, 5,090 tons (1,058,824 crowns). There are salt-pits at Tuzla, and an am- moniac soda factory. In 1910 the output of salt reached 23,579 tons, value 2,617,291 crowns. The petroleum refinery at Bosnian Brod has been amalgamated with tlie alkali works at Lukavac, near Tuzla. There are various factories for chemicals, sugar, timber, plum drying, matches, and sundry minor products.

Commerce and Communications. —Bosnia and Herzegovina belong to the Austro-Hungarian customs territory; their export to Austria- Hungary and foreign countries in 1910 was estimated at 135,458,446 crowns, and their import at 144,538,617 crowns.

Since 1878 the metric system of weights and measures has been followed side by side with the Turkish system. A law providing for the exclusive application of the metric system after a transition period of one year passed through the Diet in November, 1910, and now only awaits the Imperial sanction.

There were in 1910 1,215 miles of railway. Large railway extensions wore authorized by a law of December 3rd, 1912, by which a loan of 270,000,000 crowns (11,250,000^.) is to l>e raised for the purpose of coni- pletiug the following lines within six years of the commencement of the work : — New normal gau>;e lines from Banjaluka to Jajce, Sumac to Doboj, Bugojno to Rama, and from Brcko to Tuzla, with a branch to Bijcljiua and Raca ; a new narrow gauge line from Bugojno to Arzano ; and the conversion from narrow to normal gauge of the existing lines from Doboj to Sarajevo, Jajce to Bugojno, Rama to Mostar, and from Doboj to Tuzla.

There were iu 1910 2,007 miles of telegraph lines, and 4,582 miles of wire. Offices 173 ; messages (1910), 7U,995. The telephone service had in 1910, 293 miles of line and 986 miles of wire.

In 1910 there were transmitted 23,291,915 letters and postcards, and 8,529,963 packets of printed matter, samples, and newspapers.

Military service is compulsory over 21 years of age. The native troops comprise 4 infantry regiments, 4 battalion cadre of reserve, 4 sections of train, 1 battalion of jagers, with a total of 7,200 men, on peace footing.

British GonsiU at Sarajevo. — F. G. Freeman.

Statistical and other Books of Reference.

1. Austria-Hungary. — Official Publications.

Publications are issued at Vienna relating to the Austro-Hungarian Army, Nav\, Commerce, Money and Credit, and General Statistics of the two States.

2. Non-Official Publications. — Austria-Hungary.

Ap[>onyi{A.), Die reclitliche Natur der Bezielmngen zwischen Oosterreich und Ujigani. Vienna, r.'ll.

Auarbach^Q.), Los Races etles Nationalites en Autriche-Hongrie. Paris, 1898.

Baedeker's Guide Books : Austria-Hungary, including Dalmatin and Bosnia. 11th ed. Leipzig, 1911. — The Eastern Alps. 11th ed. Leipzig, 10U7.

Ghlumecky, Die Oesterreichische Handelsmarine und ihre Anspriiche auf staatliche Unterstiltzung. Vienna, 1902.

Colquhoun (A. R. & E.), The Whirlpool of Europe. London, 1907.

Compass, Finanzielles Jahrbuch fur Oesterreich-Ungarn gegrtindet von Gustav Leonhardt, herausgeg. von Rudolf Hanel. 4t3. Jahrg. _' Bde. Wien, 1913. Compassverlag