56 Guide to Belfast. 



industries carried t)n in the Belfast district which have 

 been omitted from lack of space. Engineering in various 

 branches is carried on by several firms, of which the largest 

 devote most of their attention to specialities, such as flax- 

 spinning and weaving machinery, tobacco-making plant, 

 mill engines, and machinery used in the manufacture of tea. 

 Salt is mined on a considerable scale at Carrickfergus, where 

 there are extensive deposits. The building trade is also of 

 importance, with its allied businesses of brick-making and 

 the importing and working of timber of all descriptions, both 

 of which are the means of employing a great number of 

 men. Curing provisions has long been a principal industry, 

 and Belfast hams and sides of bacon are well known. Ice- 

 curing and cold storage are engaged in Vjy several firms 

 during the summer. An extensive trade is done in grain, 

 both home and foreign, in the milling of flour and 

 barley, and in the manufacture of starch. Hats, boots and 

 shoes, nails, matches, carriages, bottles, roofing and other 

 felts, artificial manures, leather, beer, and furniture of all 

 kinds, ornamental ironwork, stoves, stable fittings, and other 

 specialities in iron, are among the minor manufactures, and 

 the list is by no means exhausted. Enough, however, has 

 been said to give a general idea of the extent and variety 

 of the commerce of our northern capital. 



