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x. manufacturing industries of 8wedbn.
Table 115. Manufacturing industry in Sweden. Towns and rural district*.
in 1900.1
Towns.
[-Factories.
Workmen.-]
{+Fac-
tories.
Work-
men.+}
Value in
thousands
of kronor.
Stockholm..........666 27,128 127,319
Malmö....................288 8,617 49,998
Gothenburg... 251 9,598 49,401
Norrköping.... 175 8,549 86,289
Helsingborg... 99 2,856 22,223
Gefle........................113 3,451 16,519
I Borås......................82 3,828 15,915
Landskrona... 65 1,609 13,600
I Kristianstad... 41 1,080 13,364
Jönköping.....I 75 4,010 11,837
Ystad..................42 880 11,337
Lund............, 64 1,631 9,539
Eskilstuna" ...I 132 3,604 9,019
Kalmar..................37 760 i 8,723
Karlskrona... 40 2,270 7,193
Södertelge.... 32 1,655 6,487
Halmstad............59 1,478 6,203
Uppsala..............621 1,148 5,925
Nyköping............43 952 5,367
KarlBtad. ... 44 1,380 5.250
Other towns... 1,235 21,144 | 72,092
Towns..................3,645 I 107,628 j 503.600
Rural distr.... 6,904 i 157,851 542,596
Totali 10 5491 265,470 I l.«i*,!M
diate task set before industrial enterprise in the country at the present
time, if it is to attain those dimensions which alone can render it of
the economic importance desirable for the country as a whole; as has
been pointed out several times in the foregoing pages, the prospects of
a realization of these hopes seem brighter at present than in the past.
This fact depends upon the expectations entertained with reference
to the waterfalls, of which Sweden can boast so rich a supply.
Sweden has at its command a more plentiful supply of water-power than
any other European country. The knowledge of the power in our waterfalls is.
however, as yet surprisingly incomplete; estimates as to the force available vary
from 2 to 9 million horsepower. The most reliable calculations would seem to
warrant the assumption that 4 millions is about the correct figure. What this
implies will be evident, when it is remembered that our entire manufacturing and
mineral industry nowadays has at its disposal only about 400,000 horse-power
and that one horse power is reckoned as representing a capital of more than
50 pound sterling, when put to profitable use.
The utilization, however, of these vast sources of power can only be effected
with the aid of considerable capital, and it may be assumed that in some cases
the obstacles in the way of turning the fall of water to account will prove so
great as to preclude the realization of it at all for a moderate outlay. On the
other hand, the supply of power to be drawn upon will be found in many places
to admit of development and — what is of especial importance — of being made
more uniform by the mere dredging and regulating of the watercourses. This
kind of work, it may be expected, will be taken in hand on a large scale as
soon as the question of taking advantage of the latent wealth in Swedish
waterfalls is seriously before the public.
1 The table embraces the industries included in the official Factory Statistics, and is
consequently not comparable with the Tables on p. 768 and 770, nor with the Tables on
p. 767. It should be noted that in many instances a considerable manufacturing business
is carried on in the immediate vicinity of towns, as at Gothenburg, Eskilstuna, Sundsvall,
etc.; this industry is of coarse here placed with the rural districts. A krona = 1-10 shilling
or 0 268 dollar. — * A great part of the celebrated Eskilstuna iron and steel industry is
referred to the surrounding country districts, and is consequently not included here.
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