WOOD INDUSTRY. 



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The export of manufactured wooden goods is less than one million roubles per 

 annum. The export of timber from Finland is estimated in the statistical reports 

 by the number of cubic metres and amounts to about 1,333,333 cubic metres of build- 

 ing timber and light stuff, exported principally in planks and deals. Taking the 

 average price of a cubic metre of sawn timber at only 10 roubles paper, this export 

 may be put down at 13 million roubles. 



Moreover, of late years wood pulp to the value of over a million roubles a 

 year has been imported, also a like amount of resin which, considering the abund- 

 ance of wood in many governments, might easily be manufactured at home, if only 

 the wood industry were more developed in this direction. The statistics of the 

 number of mills and manufactories engaged in wood working, and of their yearly 

 production and number of workmen in Russia, exclusive of Finland, show a consid- 

 erable development in wood working as a manufacturing industry. In proof of 

 this it is only necessary to quote the figures for 1881 and 1891 in the following 

 branches of the trade: saw mills, cabinet making and joining, turning and other 

 various small work, mat making and wood-pulp manufacture. 



