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SAWING AND EXPORT. 663
Table 90. Exports of timber from different parts of the country,
in the years 1881/1900.1
Yearly exports, by cubic meters.3 In % of total exports."
Deals and boards: 1881/85. 1886/90. 1891/95. 1896/00. 1881/86. 1886/80. 1891/95. i89«/oa
Norrland............. 2,753.748 3,220,617 3,572,416 4,030,551 84-8 85-8 85-7 83-3
East coast............ 239,846 274,716 339,743 457,459 7’4 7-3 81 9-4
West coast.......... 254,393 259,876 256,691 350,654 7-8 6-9 6-2 7-8
Beams and rafters :
Norrland............. 318,347 199,411 197,792 187,228 811 70-9 65-9 574
East coast............ 32,116 43,890 47,816 39,283 8-2 15-6 15-9 120
West coast........... 41,924 38,077 54,630 99,588 10’7 13-5 18-2 306
Round timber:
Norrland ............. 181,383 183,821 154,605 110,562 95-9 97-8 92-6 76-4
East coast............ 1,538 533 1,086 1,484 0-8 0-3 06 110
West coast........... 6,324 3,583 11,338 32,640 3-8 1-9 6-8 22-6
Pitprops:
Norrland.............. 7,586 36,620 161,189 213,021 20 71 21-7 24-6
1 East coast............ 87,077 130,232 144,732 165,135 231 25-4 19-4 18-9
West coast........... 282,266 346,897 438,970 493,235 74-9 67 B 589 56-6
Total.
’ Norrland.............. 3,261,063 3,640,469 4,086,002 4.541,362 775 76-8 75-9 73-5
I East coast............ 360,577 449,371 533,377 663,381 8-6 9-5 9-9 10-7
! West coast........... 584,907 648,433 761,629 976,117 13-9 13-7 14-2 15-8
Sum of above 4,206,547 4,738,273 5.381,008 6,180,860 100 100 100 100
Other timber........ 368,932 465,998 572,458 641,278 — — — —
Sum total 4,575,479 3,204,271 3,953,466 6,822,138 — — — —
them in the Netherlands has diminished since a large quantity of planed
boards have begun to be imported into that country, and further, the
supply of the raw material has decreased, as the forests have come into
the hands of the great saw-mills, whose owners, for natural reasons,
prefer another use for the timber.
For heavy beams (balks), old, over-ripe trees are taken preferably,
and as the supply of these is decreasing, the amount exported has also
diminished considerably; the competition in price with American pitch-pine
has also contributed to this. On the other hand, the export of rafters
and small balks has at least retained its former standard. Among
countries with a market for rafters, we should mention, besides
Denmark and Germany, Egypt, where rafters of small dimensions are used
for roofing the Arabian huts. About ten years ago, these Alexandria
rafters, as they are called, were taken from the Austrian ports on the
Adriatic, but now from Sundsvall. — Rafters are exported from most
of the Norrland ports, as well as from Kalmar and Halmstad.
1 Concerning the extent of the three districts here separately treated, see Table 89.
— * Of each article by itself. — * A cubic meter = 35 32 cubic feet.
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