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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

The crops, kc. , in two years were as follows : —

303

rieu

Maize.

Wheat.

Barley.

Oats

Potatoes

Sweet Potatoes

Hav

Wine.

Bananas.

Pineapples.

Oranges.

Tobacco

Coffee.

Arrowroot

Pumpkins and melons

Cotton.

Sugar cane crushed

Sugar, made.

Spirits distilled from

molasses (Potable) Dit'o (Meth.)

Green Fodder Ensilage

1919

1918

•J bushels 197,32$ lbs. cured leaf

- tubers

lbs., un ginned ". 'Es of canes

488,088 proof gallon*

113,749 — £

9.437

Total value of all crops, 1918, 6.011,520/.; 1919, 6,297,079/.

There are several coal mines in the State, the produce of which amounted to 931.631 tons in 1919. valued at 614, 3u7/. Goid-fields were discovered in 1858 ; and from the commencement of gold mining to the end of 1919 the production amounted to 19.5S5.404 fine ounces, of the value of 83,193,453/. The quantity and value of the minerals raised in the years 1918 and 1919

1919

Gold(flne).

Silver ....

Copper .... Coal .... Tin ....

Wolfram Lead

Mohbdenire. Limestone (flux). Ironstone ( ., ) Opals and gems Scheelite and S. Wolfram Fireclay .... Bismuth

,, and Wolfram. Manganese

Arsenic .... Chrome Iron ... Other mineral 8

Total value of above ,

Ozs.

133,571

155.499

Tons.

983.193 1,311

Ml

SI 114

66 23-2

£

.'-.7.371

4,151

Ml

Oa*. 121.030

Itaaay

9,997

994 MB 135 US 86.4M

M»«ra

13

-.: -

I

140

20

£ 514,103

952,iyl CI 4,307

ir,#M

2.331

2.051

655

18,681

108

IM

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