2O8 PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



lies. The total is made up by occasional pamphlets, a few books, 

 and advertising matter. 



The printers of the province are 136; the publishers, 40. 



No figures are obtainable for other classes of paper users. The 

 figures giving the population of the region will furnish suggestions. 

 There are no industries requiring the use of paper and pulp outside 

 the one in question. 



That the consumption of paper will increase to an appreciable 

 degree does not seem to me probable. The population of the dis- 

 trict is not rapidly growing, while emigration is constant. The 

 people are not upon the eve of any great commercial awakening. 

 Their enterprise is not such as to easily induce the installation of 

 new manufactures among them especially of those requiring com- 

 plicated machinery. The consumption of paper will not decline, on 

 the other hand; and the trade will not easily yield the field to new- 

 comers. This trade is now virtually in Italian hands. The con- 

 sumption is of their own manufacture. They do import, however, 

 finer qualities of foreign make from the following countries, in the 

 order named: Germany, Austria, England, and Holland. 



PRODUCTION. 



It is impossible to give accurate figures as to the water power of 

 Venetia, developed or undeveloped. It is fair to say, however, that 

 75 per cent of what there is is undeveloped. 



Fully one-half of the district is mountainous. It is bounded on 

 the north by the Trentine and Julian Alps, which, from a height of 

 some 2,000 feet, fall, within an average of 40 miles, to the flat Vene- 

 tian plain. In the south are the Euganean Hills, 1,800 feet high. 

 The district is bounded on the south by the River Po and con- 

 tains the well-known rivers Adige, Brenta, Piave, Livenza, and 

 Tagliamento. Beside these, there is a large number of mountain 

 streams that empty into Lake Garda and the Upper Adriatic. 



It will thus be seen that the available water power of the district 

 is very large. The manufacturers are not so numerous as to pre- 

 empt more than an insignificant percentage of this power. 



Fuels suitable for manufacturing purposes do not exist in the 

 district. The fuel used consists of English coal, costing in Italy 

 from 40 to 50 lire ($7.20 to $9) the ton. 



The facilities for transportation are good. A network of rail- 

 ways over the district facilitates the bringing of supplies near to 

 every factory. The southern rivers Po, Adige, and Brenta are 

 navigable. Canals connect them, and the mountainous regions of 

 the north have a series of excellent roads. 



Raw materials do not exist in the district to the extent required 



