INTRODUCTORY TABLES

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LIGNITE.

The Production of Lignite in 1911 is given as follows :—

Country.

Quantity

Produced.

Tons.

Value

Country.

Quantity

Produced.

Tons.

Value

&

German Empire .

France

Italy ....

Austria

Hungary .

72,575,0001 695,000 548,000

24,859,000 7,610,0002

9,015,0001

201,000 5,590,000 2,979,0002

Spain ....

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Greece

Bulgaria

Servia.

242,0002 695,0002 1,0002 224,0003 233,0002

—

1 Provisional figures.

Year 1910.

■i Year 1909.

WORLD'S PRODUCTION OF SILK.

The following statistics, which have been published by the Lyons Silk Merchants' Syndicate, show the estimated woild's production of silk in 1911, to^^ether with the dennite figures for the previous year :—

Western Europe : — France . Italy Spain Austria-Hungary

Adrianople

Total . Levant and Central Asia :— Turkey-in-Asia Turkey-iu-Europe— Salonica and Balkan States Greece and Crete . Caucasus . • . . Pei-sia and Turkestan (exports)

Total . Far East : — China— Exports from Shanghai

), ,, ,, Canton

Japan— Exports from Yokoliama India— Exports from Bengal and Cashmere

Total .

Grand Total

1910

Kilogs.

318,000

3,947,000

83,000

352,000

4,700,000

1,150,000 360,000 175,000 57,000 520,000 538,000

2,800,000

5,193,000

2,637,000

8,935,000

230,000

16,995,000

24,495,000

il9ll (Estimate)

Kilogs.

402,000

3,490,000

88,000

355,000

4,335,000

1,160,000 365,000 195,000 65,000 480,000 550,000

2,815,000

5,550,000

1,690,000

9,200,000

215,000

16,655,000

23,805,000

Kilogs. = 2-2 lbs.