The early sawmills industries in Finland

Abstract

The purpose of Dr. Nils Meinander's “Story of the Water-Driven Sawmill” in Finland is quite different from that of his Ph. D. thesis, published five years later. The former was written in celebration of the Finnish Sawmills Owners' Association's fiftieth anniversary and covers the whole field of the history of the early sawmills business in Finland. The latter gives a systematic and detailed account of the use of forest resources and of other problems connected with these industries in three river districts in the most northern part of Ostrobothnia.