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VII. FORESTRY OF SWEDEN’.
pany with its seat in Gothenburg). It has altogether 12 saw-frames, besides 3
planing-machines, edging-machines, charcoal-works etc.; it ships 18,000 standards
of sawn timber and 3.000 standards of planed wood-goods annually. Near
Hernösand lies Ulfvik, with 5 saw-frames, shipping 7,000 standards, and in the
town itself there is Hernösands ångsåg, formerly owned by English proprietors,
but now belonging to a Swedish joint-stock company; its annual shipping is
estimated at about 6,000 standards.
The Sundsvall (or Medelpad) district stands foremost of all, both with
regard to the magnitude of its shipping and most particularly as to the prices
obtained for the wood-goods. The first saw-mill owner there is Skönviks
Aktiebolag, which is running, among others, the great steam saw-mills of
Skönvik (with 15 saw-frames, 3 edging-machinos, 3 planing-machines, and 2
circular-saws), and Östrand (with 11 saw-frames, 2 edging-machines, 2
planing-machines, and 2 circular-saws). The company was organized in 1861 and has
bad a most successful career, at the same time that it has sacriticcd large
amounts in experiments made for chemical and technical purposes. Its total
shipments amount to about 20,000 standards of sawn wood-goods (8,000 standards
of which are planed), 15,000 to 20,000 Dutch balks, and 1,500 standards of other
wood goods, besides charcoal.
Log transport in the forest.
Vifsta varf, north of Sundsvall is, as already has been mentioned in
another connection, the oldest steam saw-mill in Sweden. It was founded in 1851,
but has since been rebuilt and extended. The company which owns it has been
celebrated for its dividends, which we should say are unique in Sweden
(amounting to as much as several hundred per cent per annum on the original value of
the shares); lately (1896) it has been reorganized into a company with limited
liability. The saw-mill has altogether 14 saw-frames and 3 planing-machines, and
its shipments amount to about 18,000 standards. The same company also owns
Byn, a saw-mill of rather large size, near Sundsvall.
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