Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-14
Recent Occurrences of interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
swEDEN's IRON ORE INDUSTRY
1t has Increased From 100000 Tons
In the Year 1860 to 100000
Tons in 1904.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

The production of iron ore In Swe-
den has risen from 100000 tons in 1866
to 100000 tons in 1904, the value Of
which was estimated at nearly
Gi,200,O00. This very considerable In
crease points, however, for the great
est part, to a greater production Of
ore, the increase in the production Of
iron having been not nearly so much;
| viz. during the last forty years from
about 100000 tons to 500, 900 tons, the
| figures being the manufacture for
1904, Of blooms, puddle bars, ingots
and wrought iron at all the Swedish
| iron works. These products were val
| ued at E3,030,0 900. OF the ore dug in
| Sweden during the last few years only
20 or 80 per cent. has been smelted in
the country itself, for the export OF
ore increased to an immense extent
with the development of the Lapland
iron fields. The greater part of the
Swedish ore Is taken up the Rhine to
the large iron works In western Ger
many. A great part Of the Lapland
ore is exported from Norwegian har-
bors. The above mentioned increase
in the iron production of the country
Is chiefly in the ingot metal, the fig
ures for this product during the period
named (the last forty years. having
risen from 5000 tons to $4,000 tons;
this means that the manufacture OF
, steel in Sweden now amounts to about
60 per cent. of the entire manufacture
% the country. Since ancient times
,'s greater part of the Swedish iron
aas been produced in the form OF bar
iron. Bar iron and bar steel still form
more than half Of the whole manufac-
ture, while blooms and hoop iron,
wire rods, plate and tube billets,
shafts, anchors, etc, are made In
small quantities only. Even in tie ex-
ports, bar iron Is predominant or
the 100000 tons of coarser iron prod
ucts exported from Sweden in 1904,
bar iron amounted to 175000 tons, pig
iron and Kentledge $1,000 tons, in adj
ditlon to which there were blooms,
scrap iron, ingots, wire rods and sheet
iron. Just as the greater part of the
iron ore goes to Germany, that y III
too. takes more bar iron from us than
other countries do. The greater part
of the pig iron goes, on the other hand,
to England.
The battle of I4utzen, in which King
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was
killed on German soil Nov. 16, 1852,
will be commemorated on the ami
versary this year by laying the corner
stone Of memorial chapel near the
spot, "Schwedenstein," where the king
fell The chapel is being erected at
the expense of Consul Oscar Ekman,
who, IN spite of his 81 years, is still
the active head of the Scotch-Swedish
mercantile house Of Carnegie & Co,
which has given millions of crowns to
the Gothenburg university. Dir. Elk
man is also the temperance leader OF
Sweden The chapel viii supplant a
saloon which was bought and removed
BY Mr.. Ekman. The memorial, which
is to be in the style Of the Swedish
renaissance. will cost $4,000.
The Swedish budget bas doubled
d'1ring the last fifteen years. The
growing demands on the public treas
ury and the increase in custom duties
and taxation which were the result,
have been occasioned mostly by the adj
mlnistrative state. but they also stand
IN connection with the increase in the
industrial activity Of the state itself
its railways, its forest Industries, its
loans, etc. In any case. the growth