180 



SUPPLIES OF TIMBER FROM ABROAD. 



[Jan. 



nizant at length of the value of forest property, are parsimoniously 

 careful in conserving the same. So in another quarter of a century 

 or so, a second crop of heavy wood will appear, containing probably 

 better timber and seventy-five per cent, more of it than the original 

 "rowth orathered bv the sawmill owners. The following return of 

 sawn and planed wood exported from Norway during the last fifteen 

 years, pi-oves that the want of sawable timber has induced the 

 the millowners to plane and manufacture the wood more than was 

 formerly the case, the close proximity to London and other large 

 British markets enabling this to be done ^vith greater advantage in 

 Norway than elsewhere : — 



IX ST. PETERSBURG STANDARDS (OF 165 CUBIC FEET). 



ISen 1S70 1871 1S72 1S73 1S74 1S75 1876 1877 



Sawn AVood, 230,000 200,000 200,000 210,000 200,000 170,000 120,000 160,000 147,610 

 Planed, etc. 

 Wood, 40,000 50,000 50,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 70,000 76,060 



Sawn Wood, . 

 Planed, etc. Wood, 



1S7S 1S70 ISSO ISSl 1882 ISSS 



104,360 84,210 116,940 108,850 128,605 116,180 



77,240 78,515 92,210 108,485 110,575 118,000 



From Finland, the description of timber exported is the same as 

 in Scandinavia, viz. Scots fir (Finns sylvcstris) and spruce {Abies 

 covimunis). The Finnish forests remained practically without any 

 realizable value up to even a later date than those on the Swedish 

 side, and it was not until after 185C that the sawmill industry of 

 " the land with the thousand lakes " was developed. Previously, 

 a certain quantity of sawn and unconverted wood was shipped to 

 the west of Europe, from small badly-equipped concerns either 

 driven by water or even by hand and owned by persons deficient in 

 capital. After 1856, however, capital poured into the business, and 

 companies were formed to work the woods near to the coast. The 

 increase in the export of sawn wood for the last eighteen years will 

 be apparent from the following, viz. : — 



The above export takes place mostly from the south of the 62ud 

 degree of latitude, the immense tract of forest north of that hue 



