This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... xix--from sarajevo to bosna brod few are the travellers who break their journey between the capital of Bosnia and the Hungarian frontier of Brod, but there is much that is worth seeing, by those who are interested in the development of the country, at some of the intermediate towns along the main line and on its branches. Here, more than anywhere else in Bosnia, industry has made strides, and though factory chimneys occasionally spoil the landscape, there is satisfaction in the thought that they mean greater prosperity to the people. Vares, for instance, at the terminus of a branch line going off from Podlugovi--a station about fifteen miles distant from Sarajevo--is the centre of a flourishing iron trade. The mines are worked by the Catholic population, for mining is foreign to the nature of the Turks, who were content to let the rich mineral treasures of Bosnian mountains lie buried for the most part. Yet even under Moslem rule the Christians of this district worked these mines in a primitive fashion, using the same methods that their forefathers had done for hundreds of years, and so great was the reputation of the iron ore that it was sent not only all over the Balkans, but even into Asia. Under the Austrian regime modern methods have been introduced at Vares, and two large iron foundries erected by the Government give work to a whole township that has grown round them. At Zenica, on the main line, there are "Landesararische" (Government) coal mines and steel works. A model convict prison on the progressive system, where the prisoners are taught trades and work on the land, is one of the sights of the place. Fruit culture on a very large scale is carried on, all the work of planting and cultivating the orchards being done by the...