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In 1895, about the same number of factory hands were living
in the country districts as in the towns, although the number of
factories located in the latter was smaller. On the other hand
the towns had a larger number of days’ work (7.8 million
compared with 7.2). As a matter of fact, however, the preponderance
of the towns in this respect is considerably larger, because a great
number of factories located on country territory in the immediate
vicinity of towns, owe their development to the latter, and are
owned by inhabitants of the towns. The reason why our
manufacturing industry has not concentrated itself more than it has
hitherto done about the towns, lies in the necessity which it is
under of utilising the water-falls, which furnish it with one of its
chief motive powers.

Kristiania, Smaalenene, Akershus, Buskerud and Southern
Bergenhus are the counties which show the greatest industrial
activity, while factory industry in the three northernmost counties,
and especially in Northern Bergenhus, hardly plays any part as
a livelihood. In the year 1895, the first three counties mentioned
above, had as their share more than half the total number of
days’ work. Of greater interest, however, than the administrative
distribution is the distribution according to natural centres of
industry. For the most important of these, cf. the following table:

Towns	Factories	Work-poople	Days’ work (in thousands)
Kristiania . .	352	19,048	5,197.3
Bergen . .	115	4,924	1,347.7
Fredrikstad & Sarpsborg . . .	61	5,409	1,300.7
Drammen ... . .	109	3,140	746.4
Skien & Porsgrund . .	46	2,004	542.9
Trondhjem....... . .	57	1,794	489.7
Fredrikshald ...... . .	35	1,799	451.3
Stavanger	70	1,412	340.6

For the two first-mentioned industrial districts, the machine
and textile industries are of chief importance, while the districts
of Fredrikstad and Drammen are centres of the sawing and planing
industry, the last-mentioned district and that of Skien being also centres
of the wood-pulp and paper industries. At Trondhjem, the machine

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