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CHAPTER VI
MINING AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
Finland is not rich in minerals; at any rate no
particular mineral wealth has yet been found; but although
industrial life is lagging behind agriculture and the
timber trade, there is every hope for the future, and
in some respects there is lively progress. Manufactures
closely allied to agriculture and forestry, such as
creameries, saw-mills, and pulp- and paper-mills, stand
very high; but most of the other manufactures exist
by tariff protection. It is therefore impossible to say
how far they are genuinely productive or what their
final outcome will be. Excellent conditions for the
development of certain industries exist, and we can
only hope that they may be used aright, and that the
industrial life of Finland may not be led further astray
at the expense of other business and of the great body
of consumers.
The substratum on which the later formations of
the soil are found, and which continually appears on
the surface, is granite, in its various forms as pure
granite, gneiss, porphyritic granite, &c., and is not
without industrial importance. It is an excellent
building material, frequently of beautiful colours, light
or dark grey, blue-tinted, brown, or red of the shade
of raspberries or flesh. Great masses of granite
have at different times been taken to St. Petersburg
and used for some of the most magnificent buildings
of the Imperial city. Thus it has been used for the
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