COAL 



851 



Coal in Prussia, as returned to January 1871 : 



Centners 



of 100 metrical pounds = 

 110-231 Ibs. avoirdupois 



Upper Silesia 131,144,049 



Lower Silesia 39,400,740 



Wettin ....... 820,958 



Lobejun 958,569 



The Province of Hanover (Weald coal) . 5,972,845 

 The County of Hohnstein .... 469,356 



Schaumburg () 1,978,429 



Minden 109,347 



Ibbenbiiren . . . . . . 4,066,314 



The district of the Kuhr .... 249,235,184 



Aachen . . . . . . . 19,923,919 



The district of the Saar .... 65,261,165 



Total .... 519,340,875 

 Quantity raised to January 1870 . . 466,324,753 



Increase . . . 53,016,122 

 Brown Coal in Prussia to January 1871 : 



Oppeln . . ' 60,966 



Breslau . . 366,489 



Liegnitz 7,281,863 



Posen 197,112 



Bromberg 39,648 



Frankfort-on-the-Oder .... 17,851,359 



Potsdam . 4,037,403 



Magdeburg 36,322,304 



Merseburg . 64,242,875 



Minden 820 



Cologne 2,224,795 



Coblenz 

 Aachen 

 Weisbaden . 

 Hanover . 

 Hildesheim 

 Liineburg . 

 Cassel 



Total . 

 Production to January 1870 



Increase 



36,102 

 235,211 

 926,511 

 7,085 

 40,559 

 14,217 

 3,639,583 



.137,524,902 

 . 122,330,423 



. 15,194,479 



The quantity of coal raised in Prussia in 1872 was as follows: 



People Quantity Value 



Mines employed Cwt.=50 kil Thalers 



Coal . . .428 140,544 590,473,512 85,118,828 



Brown Coal . 532 17,447 148,992,730 7,957,125 



POLAND. There are several coal-mines in Poland. The crown coal-mines produce 

 about 1,000,000 sacks of 3 bushels. The coal-mines of the western district produce 

 8,000,000'lbs. per annum. 



HUNGARY and other countries in the east of Europe contain true coal-measures of the 

 carboniferous period ; but the resources of these districts are not at present developed. 

 The coal worked at Fiinfkirchen, in Hungary, is of Liassic age. On the banks of the 

 Donetz, in Russia, coal is worked to some extent, and is of excellent quality. 



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