240 PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Inlands Pappfabriks Aktiebolag. Owners, a company; manager, 

 P. Axel Hellstrom; location, waterfall at Lilla Edet, 53 kilometers 

 (33 miles) from Gothenburg; post-office address, Lilla Edet; foreman, 

 H.Reich; motive power, water; amount of power, 2,000 horsepower; 

 number of pasteboard machines, 2 ; number of grinding machines, 6 ; 

 manufactures "wood" cardboard and carton; yearly production, 

 4,000 to 5,000 tons. 



Kohlsdters Kartongfabrik. Owners, Kohlsaters Aktiebolag; man- 

 aging director, J. G. Ullman ; location, 30 kilometers (18. 6 miles) from 

 Seffle railroad station; post-office address, Gillberga; communica- 

 tions, by water in summer time and by railroad in winter time ; motive 

 power, water; amount of power, 300 to 350 effective horsepower; 

 number of pasteboard machines for the taking up of pulp, 3 ; number 

 of grinding machines, i ; yearly production, 800 to 900 tons of carton. 



Ndsfors Aktiebolag* Owned by a company; location, at Kil rail- 

 road station; post-office address, Kil; communications, railroad; 

 motive power, water; amount of power, 200 horsepower; manufac- 

 tures white pasteboard (carton) ; yearly production, about 450 tons. 



For further information concerning wood-pulp mills, paper mills, 

 and pasteboard mills in Sweden and Norway, I beg to refer to 

 Svensk och Norsk Papperskalender. 



The foregoing figures are based on statements furnished by the 

 manufacturers themselves, and may be considered only approxi- 

 mately correct. Business men must once a year send to the local 

 government municipal or provincial a statement as to the number 

 of persons employed by them, their pay, etc., which statements are 

 forwarded to the Central Government. As everybody here pays 

 taxes according to his estimated income, and as the production of a 

 factory, for instance, may be considered as intimately connected 

 with the profit, it is reasonable to believe that the production of the 

 paper mills rather exceeds than falls below the figures given. The 

 same maybe said also with reference to the manufactures of paper. 



WATER POWER. 



Sweden is richer in water courses than any other country in 

 Europe, Finland excepted. The lakes alone cover an area of 8 per 

 cent of the whole territory, and the rivers and creeks are exceedingly 

 numerous, because of the heavy rainfall, the large masses of snow 

 and ice heaped on and among the mountains in the northern part of 

 the country, the absence of large deposits of lime rock which might 

 absorb the water, and the limited evaporation. Being full of rapids 

 and cataracts, often down to the sea, most of the rivers are unfit 



* Direct figures concerning the mill have not been obtainable for the latest issue of Svensk och 

 Norsk Papperskalender, but have been taken from former issues or have been obtained from reli- 

 able persons. 



