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Railway rails . . 

 Coal 



(Imports of Coal) . 

 Naphtha .... 



Sugar 



Raw cotton, home 



grown .... 

 Cottons, grey, and 



yarn .... 

 Cottons, printed 



All cottons . . 



All woollens . . 



Linen . . . 

 Silk 



1880-81. 1893-94. 1910. 



Cwts. Cwts. Cwts. 



3,960,000 4,400,000 10,408,300 



64,770,000 160,000,000 530,570,000 

 from 80,000,000 to 100,000,000 



6,900,000 108,700,000 189,267,000 



5,030,000 11,470,000 28,732,000 



293,000 1,225,000 3,736,000 



23,640,000 42,045,000 86,950,000 



6,160,000 7,720,000' 37,680,000 



1900. 



56,156,000 



19,064,000 



7,076,600 



3,335,000 



1908. 



94,233,000 



25,388,000 



9,969,000 



3,969,000 



The recent growth of the coal and iron industries in 

 South Russia (with the aid of Belgian capital) was very 

 well illustrated at the Turin Exhibition of 1911. From 

 less than 100,000 tons in 1860, the extraction of coal and 

 anthracite rose to 16,840,460 metric tons in 1910. The 

 extraction of iron ore rose from 377,000 tons in 1890 

 to 3,760,000 tons in 1909. The production of cast iron, 

 which was only 29,270 tons in 1882, reached 2,067,000 

 tons in 1910, and the amount of refined iron and steel and 

 their produce rose from 27,830 tons in 1882 to 1,641,960 

 tons in 1910. In short, South Russia is becoming an 

 exporting centre for the iron industry. (P. Palcinsky, 

 in Russian Mining Journal, 1911, Nos. 8 and 12.) 



D. IRON INDUSTRY IN GERMANY. 



The following tables will give some idea of the growth 

 of mining and metallurgy in Germany. 



The extraction of minerals in the German Empire, 

 in metric tons, which are very little smaller than the 

 English ton (0-984), was : 



