Authorities and supposed to reveal the good industrial progress

There are already— 54 woollen factories. three pottery works. 28 cotton mills. 36 printing workplaces. 1206 wire and string works. eight cleaning soap works.

Thus in a rustic of over three,500,000 inhabitants there are solely 1647 factories or works of any form necessary sufficient to deserve recording, even in an inventory printed within the official organ of the Authorities, and supposed to reveal the good industrial progress which has been fabricated from late years. It could be added that of those 1647 factories, 1206 are small rope walks, in order that there are solely 641 factories which in our use of the phrase could be deemed worthy of being so described.

eight distilleries.

66 steam and water mills.

17 breweries.

2 dyeing works.

23 saw-mills.

23 wool-carding works.

92 cigar and cigarette factories. 2 snuff factories.

1             silk manufacturing unit.

2             ink manufactories.

2 powder mills.

2 paste manufactories. 1 basket manufacturing unit.

55 tanneries.

16 flax works.

Nation represent a supply of nice potential wealth

Within the opinion of its inhabitants the undeveloped assets of the nation represent a supply of nice potential wealth. All of the statements made on this topic to a international customer ought to be certified by a remembrance of the truth that the mineral assets of the nation have by no means but been scientifically investigated, in order that the authors of those statements are hardly ready to kind any reliable opinion as to the actual worth of the riches they imagine to lie buried beneath the Bulgarian soil I ought to subsequently hesitate to imagine the current State to be fairly the “Tom Tiddler’s floor” it’s generally represented as being. However I believe there may be affordable floor for supposing that agriculture isn’t finally destined to be the only, and even the chief supply, of the nationwide income. As to the fertility of their soil, the Bulgarians can converse from private expertise. From M. Stambouloff downwards there may be hardly a public man within the nation who has not been bom and bred, so to talk, on the land, and who isn’t personally involved in farming operations. Roughly talking, Bulgaria could also be described as a sequence of huge plains intersected by the precipitous ranges of the Balkan Mountains. These ranges shield the nation from the chilly north winds which, throughout the lengthy winter months, sweep over the flat steppes, stretching with out interruption from the Danube to the Arctic Ocean. However, on this low latitude the solar could be very highly effective even when the hills arc lined with snow.