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