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the first rank. This is especially the case with the most
important branches under this head, viz, the saw and planing mill
industry, which was represented by 309 establishments, and had
more than 82 per cent of the day’s [[** sic]] work belonging to the branch.
This industry is represented in all the counties of the country
excepting the two northernmost. It is most largely represented
along the large rivers that allow of the floating of timber. The
timber establishments are of special importance in the counties of
Smaalenene and Akershus, and particularly in and around the
town of Fredrikstad, they are altogether predominant with several
large planing and saw-mills working for export. They are also
important in the counties of Buskerud and Jarlsberg-Larvik, and
in the diocese of Trondhjem there are some rather important
establishments in this branch of industry.
In the machinery industry, which has only come to be of any
importance in Norway during the last fifty years, we still have
a good deal to learn from the old industrial countries, although
several of the establishments of this kind, e.g. several of the
large mechanical work-shops and iron ship-building works, which
make up the chief parts of the group (1,985,300 days’ work) have
gained a reputation for good, solid work, and have exhibited with
honour at several of the international exhibitions. The most
important establishments of this kind are in Kristiania, among them
the largest one in the country, the Nyland mechanical works (822
work-people); there are also several important machine
workshops at Fredrikstad, Bergen, Trondhjem, etc. On account of the
development of steam shipping, the ship-building works intended
for wooden ships, belonging to this branch, have of late years
lost must of their importance, and in the year 1895 had only
1148 workmen, as compared with 5741 in 1875. To this group also
belong 22 carriage manufactories, 2 railway-carriage factories, etc.
Unlike the machine industry, the textile industry belongs to
a greater extent to the country districts than to the towns, as
regards the situation, although several of the more important
establishments have been founded on the country territory in the
immediate vicinity of towns. Among these are the Nydalen
spinning and weaving mills near Kristiania (1000 workmen, inclusive
of clerks, etc.), in the year 1895 the largest factory in the kingdom.
The spinning and weaving mills, numbering 64, with 1,779,100
days’ work, occupy a prominent position in this group; and next
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