The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-23 00:00:00

THE ROBERTSFORS IRON WORKS
COMPANY, Limited.
To be Incorporated under the "Companies Act, 1862," by
which the Liability of Shareholders is limited to the
amount of their Shares.
Capital, £300,000, in 15,000 Shares of £2O each.

Deposit, lbs. per Share on Application, and £2 on Allotment.

First Issue, 7,5C0 Shares.

No call will exceed £2 os, per Share, at intervals of not less

than three months.

No promotion money will be paid, and the preliminary
expenses will be confined strictly to the proper charges
only.
DIRECTORS.__

Charles Burn, Esq . Fife House, Whitehall,
Director of the Tavis took Iron Works and Steel Ordnance
Company, Limited.
The Right Honourable Lord Garvagh, Army and Navy Club,
Pali-mall, S.W.
D. C. Griffith, Esq., P.R. G.S., Messrs. Griffith and Barton,
Assayers to the Bank of England, and the Anglo-Mexican
Mint Company.
Louis Guilletmot, Esq., Messrs. Guilletmot and Weylandt,
Hankers, Stockho m.
Edward Nixon, Esq„, Ormonde-house, Bognor, Sussex, and
10, Victoria-road, b. W., Director of the General Financial
and Estate Agency Corporation, Limited.
J. Paton, Esq., Messrs. "'atoll and Co., Merchants, Stock-
holm.
J. 0. Tilston, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the General
Rolling Stock Cumpany, Limited.
Charles Weber, Esq, Messrs. G. Hammond and Co., Swed'sh
and Norwegian Consuls, Ramsgate and Deal.
With power t 3 add to their number.
BANKERS.
The Consolidated Bank, Limited, Fenohurch-street.
AUDITORS.
Messrs. Bennett and Gaskell, Accountants, 31, Nicholas-lane
Lombard-street.
BROKERS.
Francis Burnand, Esq., London and County-chambers,:

Lombard-street.
W. Hannam, Esq., Manchester.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. R. and S. Muller's, 7, Poultry.
SECRETARY PRO TEM.
A. Robinson, Esq.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
7.t,, Lawrence Pouutney-hill, Cannon-street, E.C.

The Company is formed for the purchase of the extensive
estates of Robertsfors and Fredricksfor,, comprising about
150,0.0 acres cf freehold and (town lands, with large forests
and agricultural dlstricts,as also timber andiron works, ship-
bui ding. yards, drc., and which are situated in the county of
West Bottes, in Sweden, five English miles from the harbour,
belonging to the estate, called Sikes, in the Gulf of Eothnia;
and also to extend the presen, manufacture of iron, intro-
duce Bessemer's steel process, to extend the yearly pro-
duce of timber for export, to build ships, and work the other
resources of the estate.

The es timaPed profits, as given in the detailed prospectus,
amount to about £66,000 per annum, or 4t per cent. on the
first issue of capital, £150,000, without calculating on any
extension of the trade in bar and hoop iron, timber, deals,
ship-building, and produce of cast steel for tools, &c., for
wh.ch there is a ready market.
The purchase money has been settled at £50.000 for the
whole of the property, mines, works, &c., have been care-
fully surveyed by an eminent engineer. Mr. Franz Hoff-
man ; and on his report his Majesty the King of Swcden has
g ranted permission to form a jo nt-stock company, and con-
firmed the valuation of the property at Rgs. D. 1,000,000
Swedish, or £55,510 sterling.
The an icles of asso _iation, with plans of the estates and
samples, may be inspected at the Of es of the Company,
where also all the details respecting the properties may be
had on application.
Prospectuses and forms of application may be obtained of'
fhe bankers, brokers, and at the Offices of the I ompany.