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COAL Quantity. Value. Tons. £ 5,229,662 1,899,592 9,025,325 3,060,931 12,980,103 6,314,400 Quantity. Gallons. 9,248,800 39,351,960 55,135,880 See also:

ANTIMONY (symbol Sb, atomic weight 120.2)

ANTIMONY Quantity. Value. Tons. £ 27,362 13,481 22,862 1897 1901 1906 1,133 529 293 was 190,000, in See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round 189; and the aggregate See also:

COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

COPPER Quantity. Value. Tons. £ 19,722 869,266 26,495 I,625,244 37,254 3,007,992 See also:

PETROLEUM (Lat. Petra, rock, and oleuin, oil)

PETROLEUM See also:

LEAD Quantity.

Value. Tons. £ 746 10,343 1,744 24,640 2,721 49,690 See also:

SULPHUR

SULPHUR Value. Quantity. Value. £ Tons. £ 44,389 13,138 33,588 227,841 16,007 38,612 314,550 27,406 61,386 OTHERS Value. See also:

TOTAL

Total Values. £ £ 3,863 3,345,662 3,450 5,670,508 41,338 10,839,783 of effort-no less than 4595 See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial and commercial companies, See also:

JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint stock or See also:

PARTNERSHIP (earlier forms, partener, parcener, from Late Lat. partionarius for partitionarius, from partitio, sharing, pars, part)

partnership, with a paid-up See also:

capital of 4o millions See also:

sterling. Her development during the See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade ending in 1906 is shown in the following table:- Reserves Number of Paid-up capital (millions companies. (millions sterling). sterling). 1897 .

. 6,113 53 6 1901 . .. 8,602 83 12 1906 . .. 9,329 107 26 What effect this development exercised upon the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country's over-See also:

sea See also:

trade may be inferred from the fact that, whereas the manufactured goods exported in 187o were nil, their value in 1901 was 8 millions sterling, and in 1906 the figure See also:

rose to over 20 millions.

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