There were 892 factories throughout Spain in 1912, in 107 towns and
cities, divided as follows:
Seville District 305 in 48 towns
Barcelona District 507 in 31 “
Other Districts 80 in 28 “
These factories employ approximately 40,000 people in the various
branches of the industry at an average daily wage of 67 cents.
The raw material yield for 1912 is reported as: 7800 short tons, valued
at $57.90 per ton to the grower, or $4,516,200.
It will also be of interest to show a few comparisons of values, for
various years, in shipments to foreign parts, viz.:
1909
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Description │ Pounds │ Value
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Cork in sheets ............. │ 11,009,939 │ $405,366
Cork squares ............... │ 1,180,489 │ 265,610
Corks ...................... │ 11,960,760 │ 4,870,948
Cork shavings .............. │ 66,435,426 │ 363,563
Other manufactured cork .... │ 864,820 │ 40,656
│ ────────── │ ──────────
Total .................... │ 91,451,434 │ $5,946,143
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1910
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Description │ Pounds │ Value
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Cork in sheets ............. │ 16,798,492 │ $618,489
Cork squares ............... │ 2,055,865 │ 462,472
Corks ...................... │ 14,924,052 │ 6,105,294
Cork shavings .............. │ 64,367,448 │ 526,642
Other manufactured cork .... │ 1,190,789 │ 57,382
│ ───────── │ ──────────
Total .................... │ 99,336,646 │ $7,770,279
Corrected figures showing │ │
totals as ................ │ 109,336,646 │ $7,942,677
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1911
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Description │ Pounds │ Value
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Cork in sheets ............. │ 21,564,347 │ $741,029
Cork squares ............... │ 2,076,881 │ 467,298
Corks ...................... │ 17,817,037 │ 7,288,787
Cork waste ................. │ 73,510,473 │ 591,468
Cork, manufactured in │ │
other forms .............. │ 1,828,030 │ 89,723
│ ─────────── │ ─────────
Total .................... │ 116,796,768 │ $9,178,305
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1912
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Description │ Pounds │ Value
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Corkwood ................... │ 17,928,000 │ $528,810
Cork squares ............... │ 1,492,000 │ 356,229
Corks mfrd.} │ │ {7,864,299
Cork waste } ............... │ 100,396,000 │ { 754,848
Other mfrs.................. │ 1,166,000 │ 49,783
│ ─────────── │ ──────────
│ 120,982,000 │ $9,553,969
│ │
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The following is a comparison of the first six months of 1909, 1910
and 1911.
1909
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Articles │ Tons │ Value
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Corkwood ................... │ 1,686 │ $158,644
Cork squares ............... │ 262 │ 129,646
Corks ...................... │ 2,624 │ 2,361,620
Cork waste and shavings .... │ 9,589 │ 172,604
Cork, other manufactures ... │ 211 │ 25,987
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1910
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Articles │ Tons │ Value
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Corkwood ................... │ 3,157 │ $255,718
Cork squares ............... │ 485 │ 240,057
Corks ...................... │ 3,629 │ 3,265,760
Cork waste and shavings .... │ 13,935 │ 205,822
Cork, other manufactures ... │ 251 │ 27,133
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1911
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Articles │ Tons │ Value
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Corkwood ................... │ 5,129 │ $415,432
Cork squares ............... │ 442 │ 218,755
Corks ...................... │ 4,057 │ 3,669,075
Cork waste and shavings .... │ 18,143 │ 326,573
Cork, other manufactures ... │ 248 │ 32,657
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The statistics showing the shipments to various countries are for 1909:
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│ │ │ │Cork │Cork │
│ │ │ │Waste │ in │
Countries │Corkwood│Cork │Corks │ and │Other│ Total
│ │Sqs. │ │Shav. │Forms│
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│ Tons │Tons │ Tons │ Tons │Tons │ Tons
United States │ 2,065 │ — │ 158 │ 7,594│ 280 │ 10,097
Great Britain │ 842 │ 4 │1,094 │ 7,539│ 38 │ 9,518
Germany ......│ 5 │ 18 │ 715 │ 4,555│ — │ 5,293
France .......│ 1,256 │ 276 │2,044 │ 189│ 56 │ 3,821
Italy ........│ 6 │ 79 │ 435 │ 11│ — │ 532
Belgium ......│ 164 │ — │ 136 │ 215│ 11 │ 526
Russia .......│ 463 │ — │ 1 │ — │ — │ 464
Aust─Hungary │ — │ 30 │ 346 │ — │ — │ 376
Argentina ....│ 164 │ 123 │ 57 │ — │ — │ 344
Other ........│ 40 │ 7 │ 426 │ 95│ 9 │ 575
├────────┼─────┼──────┼──────┼─────┼────────
Total ........│ 5,005 │ 537 │5,412 │20,198│ 394 │ 31,546
│ │ │ │ │ │
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