. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. - W^\ :.. - L ! FINLAND 77 are over thirty. In 1898, twenty-five pulp-mills, employing 1959men, produced 50,894 tons, of the value of a quarter of a millionsterling—nearly a million and a quarter of (dollars. Besides this,eight cellulose mills produced 13,296 tons, value ;^i20,242, andfourteen paper mills,employing 2828 men,produced 32,022 tons,value ;^552,750. In fact, to so preponderating an extent is this. A ROAD IN FINLAND the chief Finnish industry that of the 180 millio
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. - W^\ :.. - L ! FINLAND 77 are over thirty. In 1898, twenty-five pulp-mills, employing 1959men, produced 50,894 tons, of the value of a quarter of a millionsterling—nearly a million and a quarter of (dollars. Besides this,eight cellulose mills produced 13,296 tons, value ;^i20,242, andfourteen paper mills,employing 2828 men,produced 32,022 tons,value ;^552,750. In fact, to so preponderating an extent is this. A ROAD IN FINLAND the chief Finnish industry that of the 180 millions of francswhich,as I have said, was the total value of Finnish exports in that year,no less than 110,000,000 francs were represented by wood, pulp,and paper. In view of the ever-increasing circulation of news-papers,which depend wholly upon pulp for their supply of paper,and the facts that America is almost denuded of her pulp-woodforests, that Canada is using up her supplies at a great rate, that 78 ALL THE RUSSIAS Russian wood is poor in quality and remote in situation, andthat no other country has any forests of this nature at all, thequestion, where is pulp to come from ten years hence ? isbecoming a pressing one to all who have to supply the insatiablemaw of the newspaper press. To-day in Finland, if you knowwhere to go and how to set to work, you can buy at a fair pricea powerful waterfall, and the freehold of enough forest landaround it to cut and grow and cut again enough timber to keepthe waterfall at work g
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