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ORE RAISED AND EXPORTED.
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Mining of Iron ore in Sweden, in 1866/98.1
culties, which however are now considered as surmounted. The port town Luleå
has in few years grown up to a population of 10,000 inhabitants.
The Kirunavara and Luossavara fields are now opened for the world’s
market, inasmuch as the railroad to Gellivare (about 100 kilometers) and the
one to Ofoten at the Atlantic Ocean (168 kilometers, of which 39 kilometers
are in Norway) were opened for traffic in 1903. The mines are owned by the
Luossavara-Kirunavara Company, Ltd. (capital invested, 3 million kronor), in
which the Gellivare ore-field company is a great share-holder. As is said before,
since 1903 the management of both companies is in the hand of the
Grängesberg—Oxelösund Traffic Company, Ltd, that also disposes of the large exporting
ore-fields of Central Sweden. According to contract with the Government, the
mining company has to pay to the State an interest of 3’8 per cent on the cost
for building the railroad from Gellivare to the boundary of the kingdom,
compensation for maintenance and traffic expenses with regard to transport of the
company’s goods up to 1,200,000 tons yearly, and compensation for the loss that
may be caused in other traffic to the railroad; for the ore transported to an
amount exceeding the mentioned number of tons, are to be paid special rates.
Besides this, the company guarantees to the State a net income of 4 % from the
railway line Malmberget—Svartön (Luleå). For that part of the railways, which
lies within Norway, the company has agreed to nearly similar obligations with
regard to the Norwegian State. The terminus at the Atlantic Ocean is Narvik,
where a town is already growing up.
1 In the years 1899/1902 the production amounted to respectively 2,435,000, 2,607.000,
2,795,000, and 2,897,000 tons. In 1903, it has risen to nearly 4,000,000 tons.»
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