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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

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111 1910, the production of ores was : lead and silver, 14,536 metric tons ; zinc, 50,624 tons ; copper, 222 tons; antimony, 28,130 tons ; arsenic, 8,045 tons ; manganese, 7,925 tons ; and salt, 1,051,427 tons. In 1910 the output of quarries (for building stone, slate, cement, phosphates, &c. ) amounted to the value of 261,151,200 francs (10,446,048?.).

III. Manufactures. In 1906 the numbers of persons employed in the more important industries (apart from agriculture, mining, commerce, and transport) were : —

Nature of Industry

Persons employed

Cotton (textile.). Wool Silk

Flax, Hemp, Jute (textile) Hosiery ,,

Lace, <fec. ,,

Ribbons, (fee. ,,

Clothing of all kinds. Linen garments. Hats, (fee. Leather-work Wood-work.

167,200 171,349 123,599

47,513

56,682 156,554

48,371 938,905 212,716

95,233 334,203 704,695

Nature of Industry

Metallurgy

Iron-work, tool-making, &c.

Foundry work

Copper and bronze

Tinned ware.

Musical and scientific instru

ments, clocks, &c. Pottery .... Building, earthwork, &c. Flour milling, &c. . Baking, pastry, &c.

Persons emiiloyed

69,829

291,240

282,656

60,796

42,515

81,164 166,831 550,130 101,693 206,853

Total number of women workers in France (1906 census) was 4,150,000 employed as follows: Agriculture, 949,000; factories (out- workers), 1,385,000; homewoi-kers, 540,000; business,-jKiblic services, liberal professions, 504,000; servants, 772,000.

The values of the yearly imports and exports of woollens and silks in million francs are seen from the subjoined table : —

Woollens

Silk^

Years

Imports

Exports

Imports I Exports

1909 1910 1911

Yarn

9-436 8-940 6-770

Cloth

42-014 44-717 44-796

Yarn

64-983 71-944 75-178

Cloth

Tissues

212-092 205-733

190-875

59-589 57 217 50-713

Tissues

316-860 338-155 291-955.

Stogar. —lu 1911-12 there were 2*20 sugar works, employing 31,135 men, 1,646 Avomen, and 1,010 children. The yield of sugar during the last 12 years (expressed in metric tons of refined sugar) was : —

Years

1900-01 1901-02 1902-03

Tons

1,040,294

1,051,930

776,158

Years

1903-04 1904-05 1905-06

TOU!^

727,268 562.736 984,672

Years

1906-07 1907-OS 1908-09

Tons

Years

Tons

682,851 656,832 723,081

1909-10 733,902 1910-11 i 050,488 1911-12 465,377

Alcohol— In 1906, 59,616 thousands of gallons of alcohol were produced ; in 1908, 55,836 ; in 1909, 53,388 ; in 1910, 52,602 ; in 1911, 53,130 gallons.

IV. Fisheries. In the French iisherieS; includingjkhose [of Algeria, the following are statistics for 3 years : —

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