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those belonging to the pulp industry, the manufacturers
have made such progress that they can now
export to other countries. Without the import duty
they would of course be able still further to develop
the sale of some very paying specialities. The
manufacture of locomotives at Tammerfors for the State
railways has been assisted by a considerable loan and
by some minor sums of money, in addition to the
price at which imported locomotives can be bought.
These sums are not, however, more than would
reimburse the makers for the heavy expenses caused by
the present tariff.
We see the progress of special manufactures,
especially machines and implements, when we study the
individual factories. We thereby get interesting
information about past history as well as about
possibilities for the future; but space does not permit a
complete survey, and we can only mention a few of
the largest factories. In Nyland the Machine and
Bridge-building Company of Helsingfors make a
speciality of railway bridges and steamers. The
Sandvikens Company, also of Helsingfors, owns a
magnificent dock blasted out of the rock on the sea,
and therefore well adapted for repairing ships. The
Fiskars Company in Western Nyland makes agricultural
implements of fine iron as well as steel billets
and plates; it owns two blast-furnaces, the old Visborg
and the old copper-mine of Orijärvi, and a considerable
amount of landed property, among which are
manors well known in history such as Gennäs, formerly
owned by the old family of Boije. The Billnäs
Company makes a speciality of spades, shovels, and similar
implements; and the Högfors factory is known for its
excellent foundry work. In Åbo-Björneborg we have
a Company established by and called after an
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