New Britain herald., 1916-02-19
War; Bound SwitzeYIand
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sia, Hungary and the United States three times as much wheat as it pro duced. It produces considerable value in timber.
 Moreover, there is no important mineral production in Switzerland; for the mountains belong to geological formations unproductivc of valuable minerals. Some coal is found in cam tons of Valais, Naud, Fribourg, Berne, Thursau and some iron in the Jura. Rock salt and building stone form the most important mineral products. The Swiss have to depend upon wood and foreign coals for fuel and upon for eign ores in their metal working in dustrles. Germany and France con tributed coal, metals, wool, flax and cereals to SWISS markets. Liverpool sent the cotton to the great goods and embroidery factories at St. Gall, while Italy furnished the silk, straw, Tor plating, grains, fruits, wool, skins and d certain proportion of the cotton
 ''So it was upon the output of man ufactured articles for export that the swiss depended for their support. More than one-third of the pcopIe were en- gagged in manufacturing industry; and m Zurich, Bern and St. Gall, business everywhere made the traveller from America forget Swiss scenery and think of home. In St. Gall, the cotton industries center. Cloths, manufHc- tured here, are made of American cot ton and are noted for their finesess of texture and excellence oI 1insh. Here, too, are made the Well-knoWn SWi iSs machine emDrOiderics and etched laceS Watch and clock making are carried oil around Geneva and along the French border. This industry has suffered heavily under increasing Am erican competition; for the American factories turn out watches every bit as good and as reasonable in price. 1 he silk industry of Switzerland IS found in Zurich. Basil upon the Rhine, is the first customs station.
 The advantages that have aided the Swiss in their energetic strivings for material wellbeing are, for the most bart, such advantages as can be of llt- tie use while their neighDOrs on every hand are at war. One of the great aids to Swiss industrial progress haS been the superabundance of water power, the nCarness of the French coal fields of St. Etienne, mOderates wages paid for labor, nearby markets for the purchase of raw materials and for the sale of manufactured goods, and an excellent system of comm unlcatlonG by railway and splendid roads. SWltz- crland, also, was so placed between France, Germany, Italy and Austria Hungary, that she was able to take a certain toll in transit upon the trade which these lands did with one an- other. Lastly, a splendid source of revenue to the Swiss has been their incompara ble mountain scenery. Ac- cording to one estimate, natural beau- ties have been regularly bringing into Switzerland more than hundred mill lion dollars of tourists money. Two of these sources of income, that de- rived from transit freight and that l created annually by thousands of free spending visitors have been completely destroyed by the war; and it is doubt l full that the amounts thus lost to the l mounain republics yearly revenue can l be made good by even strenuous at 1 tention to the special needs of the war markets