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great exportation of same for foreign paper mills has also lately 

 sprung up. 



Fir is a harder and more expensive wood than pine, and is commonly 

 used in ship and house building and for furniture. The shipyards, 

 which have fewer wooden vessels on the docks year after year, still 

 import some foreign woods, such as pitch pine, oak, and teak, chiefly 

 from Eussia, the German provinces on the Baltic, and also from the 

 United States. 



IMPORTS OF LUMBER. 



The lumber of all kinds imported into Norway in 1892 from foreign 

 countries is given in the official statistical tables as follows : 



Sweden : 



By land $1,097,567 



By sea 



Denmark 



Finland 



Russia 



Germany 



Holland 



DUTY AND PRICES. 



There is no import duty on lumber in this country, nor has any 

 export duty been levied since July 1, 1893. 



The prices quoted in this market for the different kinds of lum- 

 ber exported can not easily be given, but those quoted in the offi- 

 cial statistics published for 1892 are, as I understand, correct, being 

 based on reliable statements made at the principal exporting places, 

 and prices have not on an average undergone any noteworthy change 

 since then. 



More than 19 decimeters in length. 



Per cubic meter. 



Planed Inmber, all kinds $6.30 



Sawed lumber : 



Planks, deals, boards 4. 82 



Boards of inferior quality 3. 59 



Spars 3.75 



Telegraph poles 3. 62 



Mining timber 1. 87 



Pit props 1.87 



Hewn timber 2. 00 



Balk, French poutrelles, and similar 3. 62 



So-called Danish lumber 2.40 



Packing-box shocks 4. 95 



Staves, ordinary, sawed 3. 48 



Staves of birchwood, sawed 5. 89 



Logs for the manufacture of cellulose 1. 60 



Small wood, cut full, etc 1.60 



