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SWEDEN

II. Mines and Minerals.

Mining is one of the most important departments of Swedish industry, and the working of the iron mines in particular is making constant progress by the introduction of new machinery. There were raised in the year 1911, through- out the Kingdom, 6, 153,778 tons of iron ore. The pig-iron produced amounted to 634,392 tons; the bar iron to 423,170 tons. Of iron ore in 1909 3,196,453, in 1910 4,413,600 tons, in 1911 5,086,898 tons were exported; of pig-iron, 105,654 in 1909, 133,593 in 1910, 150,444 in 1911 ; of bar iron, 125,996 in 1909, 168,044 in 1910, 158,000 in 1911. There were also raised in 1911 2,999 tons of silver and lead ore, 1,623 tons of copper ore, 51,242 tons of zinc ore, 5,377 tons of manganese ore, and 30,096 tons of sulphur pyrites. The gold produced amounted to 11*020 kilogram, the silver to 1,289-4, the lead to 1,134,221, the copper to 3,221,193, the zinc to 2,123,641. There are not inconsiderable veins of coal in the southern parts of Sweden, giving 311,809 tons of coal in 1911. In 1911 there were 30,579 persons engaged in mining.

III. Industries.

The timber and wood-work industries of Sweden are of great importance. The public forests (mostly on crown-lands), have an area of 8,948, 111 '24 hectares ' (not including settlement and crown-farm forests amounting in 1900 to an area of over 1,100,000), and yielded, in 1910, 3,030,546 cubic metres of timber. In 1910 there were in Sweden 1,232 saw mills and planing mills with 39,605 workpeople who turned out sawn or planed timber to the value of 182,456,197 kronor ; 519 factories for joinery and furniture with 10,108 work- people, the output for the year being valued at 27,058,674 kronor; 166 factories for wood-pulp with 13,178 workpeople, output 95,670,178 kronor; and 70 paper and pasteboard mills with 8,100 workpeople, output 53,885,555 kronor. The extent of some other Swedish industries in 1910 is shown in the following table : —

Nature of work

Iron and steel, smelting, &c.

Machinery.

Flour Mills, <fec. .

Raw-sugar mills.

Suuar refineries

Tobacco factories.

Margarine factories

Brandy distilling.

Factories for the rectifying of brandy

Breweries

Spinning, cotton.

,, wool Weaving, cotton.

,, wool Metal works (other than iron Tanneries, Shoe factories

Factories Workpeople Value of output

steel)

658

459

1,384

21

10

102

7

139

17 (573

31 117

49

94 257 243

87

23,014

22,210

3,975

(3,251

2,823

4,908

452

924

219

5,955

5,548

3,767

6.636

8,065

4,271

2,084

6,776

Kronor

94,153,755 82,333,521 106,392,847 40,289,831 65,099,661 22,324,563 18,923,952 32,373,394 32,319,052 38,978,328 29,933,972 30,358,977 32,013,594 47,459,945 27,224,142 28,877,561 34,119,861

Commerce.

The total customs duties levied in 1909 amounted to 59,239,298 kronor in 1910 to 61,659,656 kronor, and in 1911 to 61,781,435 kronor.