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RETURN OF THE MANUFACTURES,
M A N U F A C T U R E S
SHIPS
M I N E S and
Number, Name, Situation, and
Description of
Manufactures, Mills, Works, ic, &c.
Number of
Ships built in
the Island
Tons
Burthen
Registered
according to
L a w
Number, Name, Situation, and
Description of
the Mines and Quarries
L A R N A C A DISTRICT.
Three tobacco cutting machines;
thirteen corn mills and two flour
mills, one steam and one water power;
nineteen cotton gins ; three hydraulic
presses ; three printing presses ; three
gypsum factories (one not working)
several gypsum and terra umbra
kilns ; one threshing machine ; one
ice factory ; one automatic cup knife
emery grinder.
There are also :—
Potteries at Corno.
Basket and mat making at
Livadhia.
There are in the District 10 Steam
Engines, 22 water mills, 99 oil mills
and 618 Carts.
N I L .
Seven Quarries ; those containing
Terra Umbra in the neighbour–
hood of Strullos, Mavrovouni and
Aradippou, gypsum between
Aradippou and Vouda, marbles
between Aradippou and Vouda.
There is a light tramway built to
the quarries near Aradippo, bub it
is nob working.