This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...49,000,000 Books and Newspapers 31,000,000 Hotels...... 31,000,000 Margarine, etc.... 20,000,000 Chemicals.. 18,600,000 Flour and Bread 18,500,000 Tobacco.... 8,100,000 Theatres...... 7,000,000 Cofiee and Cocoa Factories... 6,650,000 Jam Manufacture...... 4,500,000 Soap.......... 3,500,000 Mines are rare in Holland, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...49,000,000 Books and Newspapers 31,000,000 Hotels...... 31,000,000 Margarine, etc.... 20,000,000 Chemicals.. 18,600,000 Flour and Bread 18,500,000 Tobacco.... 8,100,000 Theatres...... 7,000,000 Cofiee and Cocoa Factories... 6,650,000 Jam Manufacture...... 4,500,000 Soap.......... 3,500,000 Mines are rare in Holland, and may be regarded as restricted to the province of Limburg, where they are productive and C al prosperous, mainly through the energy supM3, ." plied by the intervention of French capitalists. In this region, which may be roughly defined as lying between Sittard and Heerlen, there are six separate coal mines, one worked by the State and five by private companies. The State mine (1910) employs 1,092 persons, raises 191,903 tons of coal, and the value of the output is given as 1,326,000 florins. The coal was sold at an average price of seven florins a ton. The five private companies employ 5,338 persons, raise 1,100,386 tons, which are valued at 6,905,000 florins. At present the coal region is limited to the south-east corner of Limburg, but there is no doubt that it extends far northwards, and it is not improbable that this belt continues to as far as the neighbourhood of Venlo. What the Dutch would very much like to know is whether coal exists west of the Meuse, and whether the discoveries in the Belgian Campine are the prelude to similar ones in the province of Nord Brabant. At present all that is being done consists in boring for petroleum, but as a general rule there is very little Dutch capital available for these home undertakings. The commerce and industry of the country reveal the high state of prosperity to which Holland has attained, but every one agrees that Dutch activity is slumbering, and that the people there are content with...
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Add this copy of Holland of the Dutch to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by RPL Library Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1913 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 5 1/2" x 7 1/2"; GOOD / NO DUST JACKET. Former Library Book. 268 pp. Text clean and unmarked except for usual library treatments. Pages slightly toned. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 33 photographs, including members of the royal family, Prime Minister A. Kuyper, and scenes of Dutch cities and countryside. Green cloth boards decorated with the coat of arms of the Netherlands in gilt at front, and lettered in gilt at front and spine. Boards slightly soiled, corners, spine edges, and spine top and tail rubbed. Binding good.
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