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Doc. 170.] 477
ON MINING LEGISLATION.
[This memorial was read in the Committee on the affairs
of the Diet, February 20, 1723. By that Committee it was
referred to the Committee on Mining matters, which had been
appointed by the Diet, and before this Committee it was read
on March 1, 1723.]
DOCUMENT 170.
MEMORIAL IN FAVOUR OF ENCOURAGING THE
PRODUCTION OF IRON IN SWEDEN.*
In the instruction issued by the Committee on Instructions
to be given to governmental departments and the governors
of provinces, which was communicated to the Royal College
of Mines on the 15th inst., and which has also been submitted
for approval to the Diet, it was ordered and commanded,
that the above-named College should take all due care and
interest in the welfare of the mining districts, but that it should
take especial interest in the copper and silver works, as
being nobler and more precious, and as being of the same im
portance as the welfare of the country itself. The iron-works,
on the other hand, as consisting of less noble metals and being
of less consequence, were spoken of in less careful and less
honourable terms, it being added that these latter, as opportu
nity occurred, must yield preference and pre-eminence to the
former. Induced, however, by weighty reasons, I venture to
place before the right honourable members of the Diet some
arguments proving that the Swedish iron districts deserve the
same high consideration at the hands of the Diet as the
copper-mining districts, as well as the same fostering and
untiring care and protection.
1. It is well known that the Swedish iron-mines produce
or yield to the country from 250 to 270,000 skeppund of iron,
* The original copy of this memorial is preserved in the Archives of
the College of Mines, among the Letters from the King for the year 1723.
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