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vii. manufacturing industries.
factories in Sweden, employing 425 hands and with an output of a value
of 2 050 000 kronor. The imports, however, in 1912, amounted to 1 612 430
kronor for cork-bark, and 68 430 kronor for cut-corks, while the export
of cut-corks amounted to 209 800 kronor.
There are in Sweden 11 basket-factories with 233 hands, the value
of the manufactures amounting to 511 700 kronor. In 1912 the imports
amounted to 273 185 kronor and the exports to 307 845 kronor, thus
showing an inconsiderable excess of exports.
8. MANUFACTURES OF STONE, CLAY, COAL,
CHARCOAL, AND PEAT.
This important branch of industry includes the following main
subdivisions (the figures refer to 1912):
Value of
Factories Workmen production
kronor
Stone and Clay manufactures .... 965 31980 63225000
Glass, and Glass manufactures ... 70 5278 12364000
Products of Coal Charcoal and Peat . 626 11107 28 949 000
Total 1661 48 365 104 538000
This branch is closely allied to the mining industries, and many data
concerning it will be found under the said heading. Thus, on p. 240
figures are given with reference to the large imports of raw materials
for the manufactures here concerned; for instance, of coal used directly as
fuel and indirectly in gasworks for the production of ligliting-gas. The
exports of raw materials are also considerable; the total value of the
exports is given on page 240. As regards the special items, cf. the
following articles.
Stone Industry.
Sweden’s great wealth in different varieties of stone that can be
employed industrially for building purposes, for decoration, etc., has given
rise to an industry on a large scale, which, during the last few decades
especially, has advanced with great rapidity and, all appearance, has
every prospect of still greater development.
Even during the earliest period of the historic era of the country — the
12th and 13th centuries — may be traced the first beginnings of a
stone-industry, which was not restricted to the employment of this material within
the country exclusively, but which also enjoyed a probably not unimportant
export. Of course, the varieties of stone which, at that period, were most made
use of — chiefly for church buildings and the like — were those which could
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