STATISTICS OF AUSTEIA-HUNGARY. 



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alone excepted, but in other animals it holds an inferior rank ; and not only v/ool, 

 but also horned cattle figure largely amongst the imports.* 



The annual revenue derived from the cultivation of the land has been estimated 

 at £264,600,000 ; that yielded by mines and quarries does not probably exceed 

 £10,000,000 ; and yet the mineral treasures of the country are most varied, 

 includino- as they do precious and building stones, coal and salt, sulphur and 

 petroleum, slate and potter's clay, iron, copper, gold, silver, and other metals. The 

 coal mines are being worked with increasing success, for the demands of numerous 

 manufactories are ever increasing.! The production, however, is still far behind 

 that of Germany, Belgium, France, or the British Islands. The salt mines of 

 Austria are inexhaustible, but their yield, including that of the salt marshes of 



Fijî. 89.— Diagram exhibiting the Increase in the Production of Coal, 1819—1873. 



Istria and Dalmatia, hardly exceeds 4,000,000 cwts. a year. 

 are capable of much development. + 



The iron "mines, too, 



Manufactures. 

 The manufacturing industry of the empire is rapidly becoming of importance, 

 and its progress has been far more marked than that of agriculture. In this respect 

 also the Cis- Lei than provinces are far ahead of Hungary.g Styria and Carinthia 



* Live stock in 1870 : — 



Cis-Leithania. Trans-Leithania. 



Horses 1,389,600 2,158,800 



Asses and mules . . . 43,100 33,700 



Oxen 7,425,200 5,279,200 



Buffaloes 7,000 73,000 



Sheep 6,026,400 15,077,000 



Goats 979,100 573,000 



Pigs 2,551,500 4,443,300 



60,000,000 head of poultry ; 1,000,000 beehives, 

 t In 1829—1838 the annual production of coal averaged 230,000 tons, in 1861 it was 4,000,000 tons, 

 and in 1873 12,800,000 tons. 



Î In 1860 195,000 tons of iron were produced, and in 1873 503,000 tons, the consumption in the 

 latter year having amounted to 872,000 tons. There are altogether 153,200 miners (66,750 in coalmines). 

 § In 1869 there were 2,707,000 factory hands in Cis-Leithania, and 834,000 in Trans-Leithania. 



