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vii. manufacturing industries.
that several of the modern electro-chemical branches of industry are not
very dependent on their locality and can often utilize even that part of the
water-power which is only available during certain parts of the year.
The Distribution of Waterfalls. How the waterfalls are distributed
over Sweden will be seen from the following figures, taken from the work
cited above, "Sveriges nationalförmögenhet":
The Stora Sjöfallet Falls in the river Lule älv.
Tnrb ine horse -power.
State Private Total
Central Sweden . . . 6 610 80 390 87 000
South-East Sweden 28150 278 850 307 000
Skåne ....... 380 36 620 37 000
West Sweden .... 258 240 545 760 804 000
Lower Norrland and Dalarne . 100 620 2 459 380 2 560 000
Upper Norrland. . . 646 330 1 763 670 2 410000
Total 1040 330 5 104 670 G 205 000
The water-power owned by the State thus forms 16-7 % of the
total. Among State waterfalls have been included those entered in the
register issued by the Royal Committee on Waterfalls of 1903, with the
modifications necessitated by purchases subsequently made and by other
circumstances. On the other hand, for obvious reasons, consideration has
not been paid to the changes of proprietary rights which may result from
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