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CARPET MANUFACTURE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



WHERE THE PRODUCT FINDS CONSUMPTION. 



The product finds the greatest consumption at home, though there is 

 some exportation to the Orient, Russia, Italy, Servia, Eoumania, and 

 other countries. 



Terms of sale vary greatly ; there are no established rules as to time 

 and discount, each manufacturer having his own method of doing busi- 

 ness. 



MOTORS IN USE. 



In conclusion and in addition to the questions propounded, I give be- 

 low a table compiled by the various chambers of commerce in the 

 different sections of Austria, showing the motors, representing the 

 amount of horse-power used in the manufacture of carpets and blankets. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 



I am indebted and make in consequence my acknowledgment to Mr. 

 Gustav v. Schceller, of Briinu, for most of the information herein em- 

 braced. 



JULIUS GOLDSCHMIDT, 



Consul- General. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE-GENERAL, 



Vienna, October 31, 1889. 



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BELGIUM. 



REPORT BY CONSUL ROOSEVELT, OF BRUSSELS. 



With the exception of a small factory at Touruai, known as the Royal 

 Carpet Manufactory, employing only eight workmen, the carpet indus- 

 try has completely disappeared from this consular district, owing in 

 part to aversion by the Belgians to new inventions, and greatly to com- 

 petition by the English. Some years ago the weaving of carpets by 



