NATURE 0/ INDUSTRY employed • • Cotton (textile) , i67,200 Wool (textile) ' 171,349 8dt (teatile) 11-3,599 Jax, being, jute (textile) 47,513 Lace , etc. (texti Hosiery (textile) le) 36,682 56.554 Ribbons (textile) 1 48,371 Clotting of all kiads 938,905 Linen garments 212,716 Mineral Industries.-After the textiles, the industry' which the most men in France is . the mining of coal. The coal mines 'are divided geographically into five districts: (1) the coal miles of the North, covering a surface area oLabout 109,000 hectares (269,337 acres), in Ale departments of Nord and Bas-dt-Calais, in about 40 grants, , the chief of which are those of Anzin, Vicoigne, Noeux, Bethune, Lens, Aniche, Manly, etc.; (2) the coal mines of the East, principally near. the Moselle, to which are joined the districts in Savoie where anthra eite.eoal is found; (3) the coal mines of the Oise, which include the basins of Basse-Loire, Vendee, „etc.; (4) the coal mines of the centre, the most important after those of the North, which , include ,the basins of Saone et Loire (.Autun, Creuzot, Blanzy, Montceaux, Mont chain, 875, hectares, 2,161 • those of Al lier and Auvergue (Ahura , 2,200 hectares, 7,462 acres); Commentry (2,480 hectares, 5 244 aeres); those of Loire(Saint Etienne, Saint Chamond, Rive-de-Gier, Firminy), with a. sur
face area 25,000 hectares (61,775 acres).; those of Savoie and Loire, 42,972 hectares (106, 184 acres) ; of Nievre, 8,000 hectares (19,768 acres) ; of Allier. 7,367 hectares (18,208 acres) ; of Correze, 5,432 (13,342 acres), etc.; (5) the coal mines of the South, situated in the depart ments of Lot, Gard, which contain several basins, two of which are exceedingly important, that of Aveyron, 12,000 hectares (29,652 acres), and Gard, (66,437 acres), (Grand Combe, Besseges, Alais, etc.). ' Besides these, there are in Hirault the small basins of Neffiez, Ronjan, Graissesac, 8,800 hec tares (19,768 acres),- and 'Bousquet d' Orb, 15; 129 hectares (37,384. acres), and in Tarn, the basin of Cartneaux, 8,800 hectares (21,744 To coal mining there is always at tached the secondary industry, the manufacture of coke and agglomerates.