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sawing and export.
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Prices at Sundsvall and Ncderbotten1 of thirds red battens 2lls" x 7",
1873—1912. Kronor per standard.
1 For the years up to and including 1901, the prices are those of battens from
Sunds-Tall, after which they are those from Nederbotten. Probably no great differences are caused
by this fact.
contributed to this. On the other hand, the export of rafters and small
balks has increased somewhat. Among countries affording 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
twenty years ago, these Alexandria rafters, as they are called, were taken
from the Austrian ports on the Adriatic, bitt now they are shipped from
Sundsvall. — Rafters are exported from most of the Norrland ports, as
well as from Kalmar, Malmö and Halmstad.
Railway-sleepers are now turned out in large quantities at the
sawmills of the southern provinces. The export goes principally via
Gothenburg to England.
One branch of the timber industry which has long been regarded with
a certain ill-will or suspicion is the export of pit-props. The ill-will is
naturally caused by the fear of forest exhaustion, and this fear is by no
means groundless. The cutting of pit-props would have no injurious effects,
if for this purpose were used onlj^ such undersized trees, as, from a
rational sylvicultural point of view, are to be condemned; but it is most
destructive when, as is often the case, all the young timber is mown
•down. The main part of the pit-prop export is from South Sweden, from
which most of this timber originally comes; but from Norrland also a
good deal is exported. This article goes almost exclusively to England.
Pulp-wood is principally shipped from Gävle and Söderhamn and goes
to Great Britain, France, and Denmark.
The export of staves and headings (both of hard wood and of red and
white wood) shows considerable fluctuations from year to year, but, on
the whole, it has increased.
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