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478 SWEDENBORG IN THE HOUSE OF NOBLES. [Doc. 170.
which, according to present prices, are worth from forty -eight to
fifty tons of gold in dalers of silver, so that the public, or the
country in general derives yearly from its iron-mines a capital
or a revenue of upwards of fifty tons of gold.
2. From this the crown derives about six tons of gold by
the tithes it receives from the forges, by free and compulsory
tolls, and by other taxes that are raised immediately at the mines.
3. Sea-ports and inland-towns, by bridge-tolls, weighers,
carriers, freight, storage and commission dues, receive about
two tons of gold.
4. The community at large, by the many thousands of
persons who are fed, and whose families are sustained by this
interest, as well by selling wood and coal, and by cartage, as
by working in the forests, in the mines, in the iron furnaces
and forges, receive as their share about fifteen tons of gold,
without counting the shares owned by communities themselves
in mines and iron -works.
5. The merchants who supply the mining districts with salt,
fish, tobacco, clothing, etc., and the farmers who provide it
with grain and other produce of their farms, derive annually
about twenty tons of gold: which causes a good deal of stir
and bustle in the traffic and trade of the country.
6. The remaining gains, which flow into the pockets of the
mine-owners, are of such a nature that they remain in the
country, and are invested in carrying on and sustaining the
production of iron; partly also they are used in working up
the crude metal into more valuable forms, and contribute
consequently to the public revenue and to the welfare of the
country.
7. Now , inasmuch as the Swedish iron districts are in
strumental in bringing into the country about fifty tons of
gold, either in cash, or else in the form of merchandize; and
as this is distributed among the public in the form just stated,
and as it keeps thereby our foreign and inland trade in con
stant stir and activity, and also causes the copper to remain
in the land, we are certainly justified in concluding thence
that the welfare of these mining districts has as strong a claim
on the favourable notice and judgment of the members of this
Diet, as that of those mining districts where the so-called nobler
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