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SAWING AND EXPORT.
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value of the same, iu 1900, amounted to 4,407,000 kronor, and the
quantity was 308,000 cub. meters.
The principal sorts of imported timber of native kinds of wood are
timber and spars of different dimensions, and fuel-wood, especially
birch, coming almost exclusively from Finland. Large quantities of
timber from northernmost Finland are conveyed in immense rafts, being
towed by steam-tugs specially adapted for the purpose, across the
Bothnian Gulf, to the saw-mills in the vicinity of Sundsvall.
Un-wrought foreign kinds of wood are besides imported (in 1900 the value
amounted to 207,000 kronor), of which the greater part comes via
England and Germany.
By-trades in forestry.
Sweden’s vast forests and highly developed timber trade give ample
opportunity to a number of by-trades, but as it is generally the tendency
of our people to overlook the small gain, such is the case here also. It is
true that of låte these products of the forests have been taken care of
far more thoroughly than before, but a lot of waste-timber is still left
to rot in our forests, and many a by-trade connected with forestry,
has up to date not been started or only leads a languishing life.
The most important of the, so to say, lesser industries of forestry
is without doubt the preparation of charcoal, which subject is thoroughly
treated in the following under the heading Mining.
In olden times, the preparation of tar was a considerable industry
in Sweden and wood-tar one of the most important export articles of
our country. The export mostly went over Stockholm, and the
Stockholm tar was considered the best. Nowadays this manufacture is
principally confined to the two northernmost läns; the chief place
of export being Umeå. Concerning the imports and exports of tar and
pitch during later times some dates are given in Table 92. The
manufacture of tar is effected either in open so-called tar-hollows (illustra-
Tablb 92. Imports and exports of tar and pitch.*
Average for the years Tar. Quintals. Coal-tar. Quintals. Pitch. Quintals. Total value. Kronor.
Imp. Exp. Imp. Exp. Imp. Exp. Imp. Exp.
1871/75..........................17,159 83,148 5,942 48 1,551 1,418 173,000 1,069,000
1876/80..........................14,873 70,437 16,181 392 ; 2,248 1,610 278,000 896,000
1881/85 ..........................9.400 83,412 24,880 1,826 3,950 727 287,000 1,246,000
1886/90..........................11,995 54,270 20,296 12,042 I 2,995 803 236,000 673,000
1891/95..........................17,169 57,991 16,217 21,317 2,274 982 276,000 756,000
1896,00..........................17,640 40,185 28.580 26,103 [ 8,077 598 387,000 541.000
In 1900..........................17,189 35,8731| 33,033 8,281 7,827 1,210 406,000 505,000
• A quintal = 1’97 cwts = 220 lbs. A krona = 110 shilling or 0 268 dollar.
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