PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY
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111 1910, the production of ores was : lead and silver, 14,536 metric tons ; zinc, 50,624 tons ; copper, 222 tons; antimony, 28,130 tons ; arsenic, 8,045 tons ; manganese, 7,925 tons ; and salt, 1,051,427 tons. In 1910 the output of quarries (for building stone, slate, cement, phosphates, &c. ) amounted to the value of 261,151,200 francs (10,446,048?.).
III. Manufactures. In 1906 the numbers of persons employed in the more important industries (apart from agriculture, mining, commerce, and transport) were : —
Nature of Industry
Persons employed
Cotton (textile.) . Wool Silk
Flax, Hemp, Jute (textile) Hosiery ,,
Lace, <fec. ,,
Ribbons, (fee. ,,
Clothing of all kinds . Linen garments . Hats, (fee. Leather-work Wood-work .
167,200 171,349 123,599
47,513
56,682 156,554
48,371 938,905 212,716
95,233 334,203 704,695
Nature of Industry
Metallurgy
Iron-work, tool-making, &c.
Foundry work
Copper and bronze
Tinned ware .
Musical and scientific instru
ments, clocks, &c. Pottery .... Building, earthwork, &c. Flour milling, &c. . Baking, pastry, &c.
Persons emiiloyed
69,829
291,240
282,656
60,796
42,515
81,164 166,831 550,130 101,693 206,853
Total number of women workers in France (1906 census) was 4,150,000 employed as follows: Agriculture, 949,000; factories (out- workers), 1,385,000; homewoi-kers, 540,000; business,-jKiblic services, liberal professions, 504,000; servants, 772,000.
The values of the yearly imports and exports of woollens and silks in million francs are seen from the subjoined table : —
Woollens
Silk^
Years
Imports
Exports
Imports I Exports
1909 1910 1911
Yarn
9-436 8-940 6-770
Cloth
42-014 44-717 44-796
Yarn
64-983 71-944 75-178
Cloth
Tissues
212-092 205-733
190-875
59-589 57 217 50-713
Tissues
316-860 338-155 291-955.
Stogar. —lu 1911-12 there were 2*20 sugar works, employing 31,135 men, 1,646 Avomen, and 1,010 children. The yield of sugar during the last 12 years (expressed in metric tons of refined sugar) was : —
Years
1900-01 1901-02 1902-03
Tons
1,040,294
1,051,930
776,158
Years
1903-04 1904-05 1905-06
TOU!^
727,268 562.736 984,672
Years
1906-07 1907-OS 1908-09
Tons
Years
Tons
682,851 656,832 723,081
1909-10 733,902 1910-11 i 050,488 1911-12 465,377
Alcohol— In 1906, 59,616 thousands of gallons of alcohol were produced ; in 1908, 55,836 ; in 1909, 53,388 ; in 1910, 52,602 ; in 1911, 53,130 gallons.
IV. Fisheries. In the French iisherieS; includingjkhose [of Algeria, the following are statistics for 3 years : —
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