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no obstacle, and that the freight rates on goods from Germany are 

 about as high or higher than from the United States. 



The German and English exporters of paper send their represent- 

 atives to Sweden, but this course would probably be too expensive 

 for Americans; it might be better to appoint agents here and pro- 

 vide them with samples, etc. By one or several sample shipments, 

 the costs of transportation, duty, and other charges, sizes, qualities, 

 weight, etc., could be ascertained more easily than in any other way. 

 The letter and note paper used here is of about the same size as in 

 the United States; the cap paper is generally somewhat larger; the 

 envelopes mostly employed are of a square form. Large, long, and 

 narrow envelopes are very little used, and only one dealer in Goth- 

 enburg has them for sale. 



Swedish and English vessels control the water carrying trade. 



The most prominent stationers here in Gothenburg are N. J. 

 Gumperts Pappershandel, Goteborgs Lithografiska Aktiebolag, 

 Nordmark & Co., and Meyer & Koster. 



ROBERT S. S. BERGH, 



GOTHENBURG, March 16, 1899. Consul. 



STOCKHOLM. 



PAPER MANUFACTURE. 



Paper manufacture during the last few years has had in Sweden 

 an extensive development, which is in a great measure due to the 

 great wood-pulp industry. The kinds of paper most commonly 

 produced are correspondence, writing, printing, and wall paper and 

 cardboard. The kind mostly exported is printing paper, especially 

 that for newspapers, which is generally manufactured of ground 

 wood pulp ; also of chemical wood pulp or rags. 



Wrapping paper and wall paper, made either of unbleached chem- 

 ical wood pulp, or of semichemical pulp (from boiled wood), or of 

 mixed chemical and ground pulp, are also exported. Bank-note and 

 stamped paper is manufactured at the Government paper mill, 

 Tumba, situated a few miles from Stockholm. There is also manu- 

 factured a filter paper well known abroad, even in the United States; 

 it is made at Grychsbo, in Dalarne, where there is found water of 

 the purity desirable in its manufacture. Of great importance is the 

 manufacture of cardboard, as well for the lining of walls as for roofs. 

 That used for the latter purpose is saturated with bitumen, which is 

 afterwards hardened by the action of the air; and thus the paper 

 is rendered both fire and water proof. These kinds are manufac- 

 tured at Munksjo and at Fiskeby. 



