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water-power; because it is important that they should be
situated where a large quantity of wood can be collected
for export instead of being tied to places near
waterfalls. This is the reason why the larger works are
located at the mouth of rivers coming from the great
systems of lakes. Thus at Björneborg, on the southern
coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, at the mouth of the
Kumo River, which runs down from the lake systems
of Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi, the Räfsö Steam Sawmill
Company has its works, and Messrs. W. Rosenlew and
Co. and Messrs. Ahlström have very large mills. On
the coast of the Gulf of Finland, at the mouth of the
Kymmene, which runs down from the lake system of
Päijänne, in the town of Kotka, a town which has been
created during the last thirty years, large firms such
as Paul Wahl & Co., Messrs. Ahlqvist, the Norwegian
firm of Gutzeit, the Halla Company, Messrs. W. Ruuth
and others, own saw-mills which are producing millions
of marks yearly. On the lake system of Saima, the
biggest system of all, whose extent is continually being
increased by the making of canals, it has been found
profitable to build the largest mills in the interior on
the lakes, where in especial Messrs. Hackmann & Co.,
and Messrs. Paul Wahl & Co., of Viborg, have large
factories. Big mills are also found at the mouth of
the smaller rivers in Southern and South-Western
Finland, in which part of the country Herr August Eklöf,
of Borgå, is the greatest exporter. Finally, some of
the largest mills are located in the far north at Kemi,
where a company has a capital of 5 million marks,
at Uleåborg, and elsewhere. At present wood is being
sawn and transported viâ the White Sea, where trunks
and logs are now floated out from part of the Crown
domains.
Some saw-mills are at the same time planing-mills,
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