850 



COAL 



1859 

 1860 

 1861 

 1862 

 1863 

 1864 

 1865 

 1866 



British tons 

 3,793,355 



4,276,253. Increase since 1855 1,024,030 tons. 

 4,964,621 

 5,701,201 

 6,300,318 

 7,474,935 



8,535,614. Increase since 1860 4,259,361 tons. 

 8,583,362 



The Working of the Royal Mines of the Coal-Basin of Saarbruck. 



M. Vuillemin gives the following as the result of the workings for four years :- 

 Bassin de Saarbruck. 



Bassin de la Ruhr (District de Dormund). 



Mr. Lowther in his Report remarks, ' The western parts of Prussia are BO richly 

 furnished with mineral fuels, particularly coals, that they do not depend for their 

 supply on foreign countries, but rather give up a great part of their coal produce to 

 the latter. The eastern provinces of the state have to look to the import of foreign 

 coal, partly from Westphalia, partly from foreign countries. 



' This is particularly the case with countries on the Baltic, which receive by sea 

 coal cheaper from British harbours than from distant inland mining districts. The 

 provinces of Saxony and Brandenburg, particularly when near the watercourses of the 

 Elbe, receive important quantities of British coal and Bavarian brown coal, as well 

 as great imports of coal by railway from the pits of Zwickau and Chemnitz in the 

 neighbouring kingdom of Saxony; these pita are daily improving in extent and 

 value.' 



The coal production of Silesia was in 1871 much greater than anybody expected. 

 It reached a height never previously attained, viz., 32,723,824 tonnen (about 5 to an 

 English ton), which is 4,403,767 tonnen, or 16,154,479 cwts. more than last year. 



The importation of coal into Berlin amounted to 



1870. 2,697,043 tonnen Silesian coal. 

 1870. 600,000 English coal. 



1871. 3,228,391 tonnen. 

 1871. 1,160,919 . 



This is an increase in one year of 531,348 tonnen Silesian coal, and 560,240 tonnen 

 English coal, while during the five preceding years the importation amounted to 



