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National Geographic : 1915 Oct
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Photo by E. M. Newman THE MAIN BUSINESS STREET IN BUCHAREST Bucharest has a population of about 3o0,000, of whom 43,000 are Jews, 35,ooo Hungarians, and 2,500 Germans. From a distance the many gardens and gilded cupolas give the city a very picturesque aspect. can be employed with but little force for guarding, and at a labor that is remunera tive to the State. MOUNTAINS OF SALT The salt deposits of Roumania cover an enormous area and have a thickness varying from six to eight hundred feet. At Sarat there is a mountain of salt, and steam-shovels can be used to load the waiting cars. In other cases the gallery system is employed, and electrically driven. machines turn out blocks a cubic yard in size, like great pieces of granite. These have to be ground up and purified before it becomes the salt of commerce. A visit to the great chambers that have been ex cavated and the storehouses filled with the marketable product will allay all fears of a salt famine. Another source of wealth are the vast oil fields, which send abroad each year products having a value of eight million dollars. The only export that surpasses this figure is the grain, which amounts to nearly two hundred million dollars an nually. The oil wells are, to a great ex tent, owned by foreign companies, and, while a large part of the profits go abroad, the royalties and the money paid for labor add to the wealth of the kingdom. Roumania's natural trade route is the Danube, which traverses the land for a distance of five hundred and ninety-four miles-thirty-five per cent of its entire navigable length. At the head of the deep-sea navigation stands the great com mercial city of Galatz, with its population of seventy-two thousand. It is here that the Danube Commission has its head quarters. This organization is intrusted with the execution of such works as are necessary for the maintenance of the navigation of the Danube, the regulation
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