EUROPE: GERMANY. 



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The chief engineer of the entire works and his assistants are paid 

 from 180 to 300 marks ($45 to $75) per month. 



PAPER, PASTEBOARD, PULP MILLS, ETC. 



The following table shows the number of factories and mills 

 producing wood pulp, paper, pasteboard, etc., in the Kingdom of 

 Saxony, with number of persons employed and relative importance 

 of mills: 



TABLE A. Number of plants engaged in the manufacture of paper and articles of paper, 

 ivith number of persons employed, according to the last census of June 14, 1895, ^ H the 

 Kingdom of Saxony. 



[Compiled by Saxon Ministry of Interior.] 



* Employing from i to 5 persons, 

 t Employing from 21 to 50 persons. 

 \ Employing 51 and more persons. 



Among these there are 68 plants (4 small, 24 medium, and 40 large), employing 7,218 persons, 

 where only paper is manufactured. 



One of the largest and best equipped paper mills in Germany is 

 the "Patent Papier Fabrik Penig," in Penig, Saxony. It was 

 founded in 1537 and put its first paper-making machine into opera- 

 tion in 1835. Practically, all kinds of paper are made in this fac- 

 tory. During the year 1896-97, 576,832 marks ($137,286) were paid 

 out for salaries and wages to 46 clerks and 650 workmen. The 

 water power is 800 horsepower, and the steam is equivalent to 1,680 

 horsepower. Eighteen boilers, with 2,294 square meters (2,744 

 square yards) heating surface, consumed 24,000,000 kilograms (about 

 52,910,400 pounds) of coal during the same year. The following 



