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RETURN OF THE MANUFACTURES,
M A N U F A C T U R E S
Number. Name, Situation, and
Description of
Manufactures, Mills, Works, lac, & e
SHIPS
Number of-
Ships built in
the Island
Tone
Burthen
Registered
according to
Law
M I N E S and
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 hot working)
several gypsum and terra umbra
kilns; one threshing machine; one
ice factory ; one automatic cup knife
emery grinder.
There are also :—
Potteries at Kornos.
Basket and mat making at
Leivadia.
One Soap Factory in Scala.
There are in the District 10 Steam
Engines, 22 water mills, 99 oil mills
829 Carts and 43 Public Carriages.
NIL.
Seven Quarries ; those containing
Terra Umbra in the neighbour–
hood of Strylos, Mavrovouni and
Aradippou, gypsum between
Aradippou and Vouda, marbles
between Aradippou and Vouda.
There is a light tramway built to
the quarries near Aradippou, but it
is not working.