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vii. manufacturing industries.

Grängesberg. The technical success of electric power-transmission opened
up new possibilities for the use of water-power, and these possibilities
were soon seized upon by far-sighted men in Sweden. The first
water-power works, whose mission it was to transmit electric energy over greater
or smaller areas and vend it to different consumers, so-called
överlands-centraler (over lands central stations), were constructed by private
enterprise. Those that were first in the field were The Builders of
Hissmofor-sen and Skråmforsen, further Yngereds Kraftaktiebolag, Hemsjö
Kraftaktiebolag, Gullspångs Kraftaktiebolag, and Sydsvenska
Kraftaktiebolaget.1 Later on the State herself appeared on the scene and built the big
power works at Trollhättan, the first section of which was completed in
1910, those at Porjus, and those at Älvkarleby, the former of which is
to be finished and in working order in 1914, and the latter in 1915.

A considerable amount of energy is now disposed of for electro-chemical
and electro-metallurgical purposes. Electric furnaces are thus working
for different purposes:

Eor pig iron at Domnarvet, Hagfors and Trollhättan, for zinc at
Trollhättan, for ferrosilicium and ferromanganese at the same place, as well
as at Vargön and Gullspång, for clorates at Månsbo and Alby, for carbide
and cyanamide at Alby and Ljunga-works.

(See, further, sections on iron-manufacturing and other industries.)

For several years plans have been rafted for the electrification of the
State railway system. An important section of it,
"Kiruna—Riksgränsen", carrying the large iron-ore traffic from the mining districts of
Lapp-land will be run electrically this year, receiving energy from the State
water-power station at Porjus.

Evidence of the interest in the development of the water-power of the
country is also afforded by the foundation of the "Svenska
vattenkraftföreningen" (the Swedish Water-Power Association), a union of
communal and private water-power concerns, and of private persons. The
aim of the Association is to promote the utilization of Sweden’s
water-power by the spread of technical, economic, and legal information in the
matter.

Symptomatic of the interest evinced by the State in the exploitation
of water power is the creation of two new Government offices:
Hydrografiska Byrån, the Hydrographical Bureau, in 1908, and
Vattenfallsstyrelsen, the Board of Waterfalls, in 1909, the latter replacing the
Trollhätte Canal and Water-Works Board, established in 1905.

The Hydrographical Bureau. It devolves on the Hydrographical Bureau to
collect and work up all such data as may be necessary for an exhaustive and
practical working knowledge of the hydrography of the Swedish fresh water
lakes, rivers, etc, and to make observations and measurings for that purpose.
The Bureau shall make its results accessible to the public by the publication
of year-books, monographies on rivers, treatises, and essays. Above all, the
Bureau is responsible for the editing and publication of the above-mentioned "Re-

1 Kraftaktiebolag = Power Company. Fors = Falls. Syd-svcnska = South Swedish.

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