Congressional Serial Set Volume 3541

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. 1897 Excerpt: ...bricks. Province of Zealand.--Madder and garancine. Province of North Brabant.--Cottonweaving, beer brewing, leather and shoes, linen, tobacco and cigars, wooden shoes, and wool. Province of Ltmburg.--Cloth, crockery ware and glassware, paper and wall paper, and sirups. Province of North Holland.--Carpets, cheese, cocoa and chocolate, diamonds flower bulbs, furniture, oils, liqueurs, gunpowder, paper, shipbuilding, starch, steam engines, sugar refineries, and sawmills. Province of Utrecht.--Brick and tiles, carpets, cotton, glass bottles, hoops, tobacco, and cigars. Province of Gelderland.--Butter, chairs, copper sheets, ironmongery, and tobacco. Province of Overyssel.--Chalk, carpets, ironmongery, jute, sausages, turf, and mattings. Province of Drenthe.--Cotton, turf litter, and glass bottles. Province of Oroningen.--Cement, paper, potato flour, potato glucose, and strawboards. Province of Friesland.--Chicory factories, clocks, and skates. Colonial products.--In referring to the industries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, prominent mention must be made of the large capital invested and the immense trade carried on in the products of the Dutch colonies, such as coffee, cocoa, rice, spices, tin, sugar, tobacco, etc. CURRENCY. There is no change in the United States gold value of the monetary unit. The relation of gold to silver in the Netherlands is 15jj to 1, being the parity for silver when about 60$ pence per ounce in London. The actual silver price in London is about 30 pence per ounce. The single gold coin in Holland is the 10-florin piece, of a legal weight of 6.72 grams, of.900 standard. The silver coins are the 2.50-florin piece (ryksdaalder), legal weight 250 grams; the 1-florin piece (guilder), legal weight 100 grams: -florin piece (halvegulden), ..