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694 IX. MINING INDUSTRY AND METAL PRODUCTION OF SWEDEN.
Table 99. Percentage of the world’s production of iron ore.
Years. [-Sweden.-] {+Swe- den.+} Great Britain and Ireland. [-Germany. Austria-Hungary.-] {+Ger- many. Austria- Hun- gary.+} France. 1 Spain. Russia 1 United States Other
countries. ToUI.
187175...... 289 48-27 1579 3 71 7-95 1-84 259 13-60 3-86 IN
1876,80... 205 46-93 15-98 2-76 703 5-87 2-59 14 82 •>■97 IN
1881<85...... 1-91 37-34 18-68 314 6-57 896 2 19 18-54 272 IN
1886 90...... 1 81 27-67 1977 3-27 ß-68 11 20 274 25-22 I 2-79 IN
1891 95...... 2’76 22-27 21-28 397 6-64 972 409 25-98 384 IN
1896/00...... 2’97 18-46 21-86 414 616 10-21 620 27-73 278 IN
In 1900 •)... 296 16-14 21-47 400 6 17 9 82 702 29-82 , 2-60 IN
Company, Ltd., with a joint capital of 21 million kronor, has for its object the
acquiring and holding of shares in the private railroads running between the
mining district and the place of export, and to develop the traffic on these
railroads; the company also purchases shares in mines. The export of ore
via Oxelösund, near Nyköping, commenced on a somewhat larger scale in the
later part of the decade 1881/90; in 1902 it amounted to 609,070 tons. The
greater amount is disposed of to the eastern part of Germany, where the
rich Swedish ores are mixed with the poorer German ones. The exportation
of ore from Grängesberg has gathered quite a considerable population to this
place, has improved the financial condition of several of the private railroads in
Middle Sweden, and has created a rising community at the harbour of Oxelösund.
— Very recently (in 1903) this Company has acquired disposition right to the
majority of shares in the Gellivare Ore-field Company (and thus indirectly also in
the Kirunavara-Luossavara fields, see below); hence the direction of all the principal
exporting iron-ore-ficlds of Sweden is now united in the hands of the same party.
The history of the Gellivare fields dates a little more than one hundred years
back. The first trials at mining were made by S. G. Hermelin. In 1864, the
ore-fields were sold to Englishmen, and an English company was granted
concession to a railroad, Luleå—Ofoten, of which only the distance Luleå—Gellivare
was completed. Since the English company failed, the mines were again toned
into Swedish hands, and the railroad was recovered in 1891 and completed by
the Swedish State. Most of the mining fields are owned, since 1891, by the
Gellivare Ore-field Company, Ltd., which has its head office in Stockholm; its
joint capital is 6 million kronor at the lowest, 18 million at the most. Besides
this, mining is carried on by the Freja Mining Company, Ltd. (invested joint
capital 1 1/i million kronor), which has its head office at Malmö. The ore is
transported by rail to Luleå (207 kilometers), at 3 kronor per ton (thus O si d.
per Eng. ton-mile). The freight by steamer to Rotterdam is about 7 shilling
per ton. The exportation takes place at the lading place Svartön at Luleå, where
arrangements have been made for the same. For transport by sea, steamers of a
capacity from 2,000 to 7,000 tons are employed. — The exportation on a large
scale commenced in 1892, and rose during 1902 to 1,074,000 tons, of which
about one tenth was from the mining company Freja. In our statistics of exports,
the iron ore exported from Sweden was valued at place of lading to about 9
shillings per ton. Most of the Gellivare ore exported goes via Rotterdam to
Westphalia, or via Stettin to Silesia. Lesser quantities go to England and Austria.
At Malmberget the mining work has already gathered a population of over
7,000, which continues to be rapidly increasing. The organization of this
community as regards dwellings and supply, etc., has been connected with great difli-
l) Tn 1903, the percentage of Sweden was about 40 o, see p. 692.
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