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of modern factory industry, the saw-mill industry, dates as far
back as to about the year 1500. It was only about fifty vears
later, however, that this industry attained any importance in our
country. There are also traces of other establishments, but it is
only about the year 1700 that a manufacturing industry, properly
so called, can be said to have commenced. At about that time,
the first paper-mill and the first oil-mill were established in the
country, and somewhat later the first groats-mill came into
existence. The Danish-Norwegian government during the succeeding
period was anxious to advance the development of national
industry, but the means employed by it for that purpose, during
those brightest days of mercantilism, consisted chiefly in exclusive
privileges, prohibition of importation, and high protective duties,
and did not lead to the result desired. The king also personally
participated in the industrial activity; thus in the year 1739, the
salt-works at Vallø were established for the account of the
government; and in the year 1775, the government bought from the
Norwegian or «Black» Company, which had been in existence since
1739, the glass-works that this company had established. But
the movement was still unsuccessful. Several important branches
of industry altogether succumbed. As regards metal industry, the
production was limited to some plain, rough iron-ware and nails;
and the textile industry was almost exclusively represented by
the spinning and weaving industry that was carried on in the
state-prisons and houses of correction (rough woollen and linen
goods). Towards the end of the century, some rope-walks,
paper-mills, tobacco-factories, brick-fields, powder-mills and some other
scattered establishments deserving the name of factories were found
in the country, while the chief bulk of industrial establishments
consisted of small saw-mills, flour-mills, etc., which, as a rule,
worked only for the local consumption, and were scattered over the
whole country, and could only in a limited sense be considered
as representatives of manufacturing industry.
During the last quarter of the last century, when the
conditions were very favourable for commerce and shipping, it seems
as if industry were entirely overshadowed, and no important
improvement took place within the first decades of the 19th century.
In 1835, the statistics show 4219 industrial establishments, but
out of these 3398 were saw-mills. Of the remainder, 366 were
distilleries, the rise of which dates back to the year 1816, 193
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