fOMMFRCE
795
4,942,000 acres: and In autonomous Ruthenia (Podkurpatska Rus) 1,630,860 acres. The annual yield is estimated at 565,024,000 cnbic feet of timber.
The mineral production of the Czechoslovak Republic comprises both soft and hard coal (chief coal6elds Brux-K >motan Teplitz and Falkeuau), iron, graphite, garnets. Gold, silver, copper and lead are found in the Carpathians, and rocksalt in Eastern Slovakia and Ruthenia. Coal pro- duction in 1919, 16,980,000 tons of lignite and 10,405,000 tons of hard coal. In 1919 tlieie were 366 coal mines, employing 110,233 persons.
The number of factories in 1920 was 8,833. Of these 2,000 were textile mills, 1,755 glass works and precious stone factories, 1,358 for food produc- tion, 674 for furniture and bent wood manufacture, 595 machine factories, 592 for metal manufacture, 297 paj>er mills, 458 chemical factories. Articles jiro'lncedby Czecho-slovak industries include glass of all kinds, agricultural machines, electro-technical goods, paper, furniture, gloves and other leather goods, textiles, &c.
Commerce. — for 1919 the imports amounted to 6,555,418,562 kronen and the exports to 5,323,621,196 kronen.
Principal articles of import and export in 1919 : —
Imports. Kronen.
Exports.
Krontn.
Cereals 1,443.890,121 Cottons . . 917.841.76.5 Woollens . . .441 Silk .... 123,610.095 Leather . 229,699,598
Sugar
Fruit
Timber
Glass
Iron ....
1,571,426,437 5*4,205,810 614,306,116 370,267,850 314,848,137
Exports and imports in 1919 were distributed among the principal countries at, follows: —
Country of
Country of
origin or
Imports
bpotta
orijrin or
Imports
Ex porta
destination
Kronen
destination
Kronen
Kronen
Kronen
Albania .
—
3,449.542
Spain .
48,: 7
1,4'
Belgium
306,512,773
Sweden
77.752,475
28,406,228
Bulgaria
■9,502
93,7
Switzerland .
531,707,412
79,089,039
Denmark
78,095 686
Turkey in
8,997,058
Franco
236,268,456
599,033.570
Europe
6 601/?1
Hambirg
4,605.938
Ukraine
7,807,163
9,848,370
Italy
(583,704.016
211..:
Great Britain
32S,440,55<
238,145,324
Jiigo-Slavia .
168,47
24.3.4.
British India
2,538,445
15,884,428
Hungary
168,827,890
-13,319
Russia
—
3,143,668
Holland
263. o33,487
•3,685
■ .
10,147,595
2,075,255
Germany
789,
S00.- '
Argentina .
51,158,253
601.9S0
Norway
26,341',67'J
302.
Canada.
192,018
1,490,647
rietuscite Dis-
United States
1,862,612,646
• -3.794
trict of Silesia
7o,698
34, •.'•
Rest of
Poland
1 "5.481
451,132,068
America
75,007,01 S
3.797.13S
Austria .
676.4
-
Australia
3.383,133
31,146
Rouin&nia European
Ru-.-ia
24,521,565
- 9,076
Othercountries
3,687,179
-.>,868
147,627
89,4'
Total .
6.555,41S,562
-1,106