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a canal was built from Lake Saima to Viborg in
1844-56, with twenty-eight locks, and a total length
of 59 kilometres, of which 32 have been dug out
of the earth. The canal is now used by more than
5,000 ships every year, and once yielded a revenue of
500,000 marks a year; but after the tariff had been
decreased in 1893 the revenue fell to about 300,000
marks. Some time earlier, water-routes 300
kilometres long were established on the Saima system
from Villmanstrand in the south to Iisalmi in the
north. About 3¾ million marks have been spent on
canal works in the interior; and finally 2 million
marks on making a canal from Nyslott to the
northeast, and from the Pielis, the outlet from the great
Pielisjärvi lake-system. In other places half a million
marks have been expended, and another 300,000 on
the Vuoksi itself. In all, 19 millions have been spent
on the Saima system. Later, work has been done at
Paijfinne, and in the interior of Savolaks and at the
outlet of the Kymmene, the cost of this being one-third
of a million; and finally, half a million has been spent
on the Näsijärvi system and over half a million on the
rivers of Ostrobothnia, including some work on the
Uleå River. The total amount expended on canals is
about 25 million marks.
In former times most of the lumber was exported
from Ostrobothnia, and when the export became
considerable the greater part of the wood was gathered
together on the lake-systems of Näsijärvi and Saima
to be exported, in one case viâ Björneborg at the
mouth of the river Kumo, which is the outlet for the
Näsijärvi lake-system, and from Saima (when the
Saima Canal was finished in 1856) it was taken viâ
Viborg. In the years 1865-69 more than 38 per
cent. of the total export took place over Viborg, and
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