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SPAIN.
Metals and Minerals From private mines :
Iron .
Lead
Silver
Copper
Tin .
Zinc .
Quicksilver
Cobalt
Antimony .
Manganese
Common salt
Soda .
Sulphur
Coal (pit) .
Lignite
Asphaltum
Turf . From mines belonging to the State
Quicksilver
Copper
Lead .
Sulphur
Salt .
The total value of the minerals and ores raised in the year 18G3 amounted, according to official returns, to 1GG,073,965 reales, or 1,6G0,739Z., and that of the metals to 27G,765,054 reales, or 2,767,650Z. Of the most important of the minerals, coal, the estimated value was 20,202,555 reales, or 202,025/., while iron and lead were produced to twice the amount in value.
The material progress of Spain in the course of about ten years is indicated, to some extent, by the growth of a system of railways, the more important to the kingdom as there was formerly a great want even of ordinary roads. The subjoined tabular statement gives the length of railways open for traffic in Spain, at the end of each year, from 1856 to 18G5 : —
Quantities
172,368 tons
311,161 „
L48,896,000 oz.
143,396 tons
6 „
106.858 „
157,952 cwt.
68 „
1,178 „
566,947 „
1,253 „
344,875 „
452,669 „
316,027 tons
17,218 „
61 „
127 „
14,496 cwt.
888 tons
2,186 „
3,779 cwt.
76.939,474 „
Years
Length
Kilometres
English miles
1856
fr>;,^i
326
1857
6731^
418
1858
853^
529
1859
1,148^2
713
1860
1,91.") "
1,189
1861
2,369145
1,471
1862
2, 728^
1,694
1863
3,587
2,227
1861
4,065
2,524
1865
4,712
2,902
