CHAPTER IX. 
DISPOSAL OF FOREST PRODUCTS. 
Section A.—TIMBER EXPoRTs. 
Dr. Ienatrus in his Statistical Notes, published in con- 
nection with the International Exhibition in Paris in 
1878, states ‘that the forest products constitute more than 
half of the entire exports from Finland, according to the 
money value of these exports. The forest products which 
constitute the greater portion of such exports consist of 
sawn timber, boards, planks, laths, &c. It is not many 
years ago since all the sawing was done by hand in 
winter by the peasants, who then transported the planks 
on sledges to the nearest port. Now there are to be 
found at the mouth of almost all the great rivers, and on 
many of the watercourses in the interior, large sawmills 
moved by water or by steam. From remote forests logs 
bound together, so as to form immense rafts, are floated 
to these sawmills; and sometimes it- happens, that these 
rafts are years in reaching their destination.’ An account 
of such rafts, of their appearance, and their structure, has 
been given—ante p. 13—in the narrative of what I saw on 
my trip on the Saima See. 
The supply of timber to these sawmills is procured by 
private enterprise, but it is anticipated that a change in 
this particular may take place, seeing that the Govern- 
ment is giving attention to the preparation of the water- 
courses for the floatage of wood. In 1872 it was 
calculated that the Crown forests were ready to deliver in 
the bason of the Kemi about three millions of trunks, 
and one million of logs or beams; in the bason of the Ulea 
700,000 trunks, and one million logs; along the upper 
