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x. manufacturing industries of 8wedbn.
manufacture, as also with regard to the imports and exports are given
on page 867, and in the Tables 127 and 128 below.
It is noticeable, that the relation, with regard to the quantity of
production, between the different centers of machine and metal-ware
manufacture has during the last years not inconsiderably changed.
Gothenburg has for instance shown a remarkable stagnation while
Stockholm has made great progress; the same is the case with Norrland,
and also with Malmö and surrounding places. This latter circumstance
finds its explanation in the strong revival of industry in general in
Skåne, which is favoured with a particularly fertile soil, highly suitable
also for the beet-root sugar industry, as also with a not inconsiderable
supply of coal and diverse raw-materials, as fire-clay, etc. A steady
development of the metal industry has for years been going on in
Eskilstuna and its surroundings, suggesting thai the industrial
products special for this town, begin to gain ground on the world
market.
From the Bolinder Works in Stockholm.
With regard to Swedish machine-industry in general, a still greater
development in the immediate future may be anticipated than the one
we have witnessed during the last few decades. In fact, the progress
has for a number of years been enormous, even surpassing the great
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