Photo by E- M. Newman 



THE MAIN BUSINESS STREET IN BUCHAREST 



Bucharest has a population of about 300,000, of whom 43,000 are Jews, 35,000 Hungarians, 

 and 2,500 Germans. From a distance the many gardens and gilded cupolas give the city a 

 very picturesque aspect. 



can be employed with but little force for 

 guarding, and at a labor that is remunera- 

 tive to the State. 



MOUNTAINS OE SAET 



The salt deposits of Ronmania cover 

 an enormous area and have a thickness 

 varying from six to eight hundred feet. 

 At Sarat there is a mountain of salt, and 

 steam-shovels can be used to load the 

 waiting cars. In other cases the gallery 

 system is employed, and electrically driven 

 machines turn out blocks a cubic yard in 

 size, like great pieces of granite. These 

 have to be ground up and purified before 

 it becomes the salt of commerce. A visit 

 to the great chambers that have been ex- 

 cavated and the storehouses filled with 

 the marketable product will allay all fears 

 of a salt famine. 



Another source of wealth are the vast 

 oil fields, which send abroad each year 



products having a value of eight million 

 dollars. The only export that surpasses 

 this figure is the grain, which amounts to 

 nearly two hundred million dollars an- 

 nually. The oil wells are, to a great ex- 

 tent, owned by foreign companies, and, 

 while a large part of the profits go abroad, 

 the royalties and the money paid for 

 labor add to the wealth of the kingdom. 

 Roumania's natural trade route is the 

 Danube, which traverses the land for a 

 distance of five hundred and ninety-four 

 miles — thirty-five per cent of its entire 

 navigable length. At the head of the 

 deep-sea navigation stands the great com- 

 mercial city of Galatz, with its population 

 of seventy-two thousand. It is here that 

 the Danube Commission has its head- 

 quarters. This organization is intrusted 

 with the execution of such works as are 

 necessary for the maintenance of the 

 navigation of the Danube, the regulation 



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