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Hungary, and the Mediterranean states) have atracted the attention of both 
home and foreign capital. 
By the end of the 19th century modern wood industries in the real sense 
of the term had grown up. Now we may say that the S.H.S. Kingdom has a 
well developed wood ‘industry which is equipped with the most modern type of 
machinery. It is able to supply the country entirely with most wooden goods and 
also sells large quantities of its products abroad. 
The industry is protected by customs export duty on wood in logs and 
by an import duty on foreign partly and wholly manufactured products, 
The export of forest products in the last few years is shown in the follow- 
ing table. 
Year 
Weight 
Value in 
“old dins 
°fo of Tata Export 
Wight Value 
1097 
30, 
707 
1921 43.44. 
192234 31.660 
1923 133.278 
1924 173.005 
1925 158.323 
a 
A 
105.5 
161.3 
120 3 
NP 
y 
Yo 
7.89 
Experts estimate that there is invested in the wood industry on amount 
of 300—350 million gold dinars. It employs on the average 100.000 labourers, and 
in the season many more. 
The best developed manufacture is that of wood for building. In all there 
are 2.678 saw mills, of which 2376 are small, and primitively driven by water 
power, while 302 are large modern works. Among the latter are some which count 
among the largest in Europe. Some of these are Krivaja Ltd, Zavidoviéi which 
has 26 fast saws; the Dobrljin—Drvar Forest Industrial Works Ltd, Sarajevo, 
with 24 saws ; the Nasi¢ Tannin Factory and Steam Mills Ltd, Zagreb. The indu- 
stry of wood for building has advanced owing to the excellent and exact quality 
of the work and the possibility of making the special dimensions required for 
foreign markets. In the last two years much of this wood has been sent to South 
America. Some of the large works which we have mentioned are formed into the 
Forest Industries” which manage jointly the cutting, manufacture and sale of 
the wood. In the large works it is chiefly foreign capital which is used, and which 
has found in this Kingdom a good investment. About three-fouths of the wood 
is exported in the form of sawn and planed beams. 
The manufacture of wood coal is also well developed. It has a vearly ex- 
port of 5 to 6.000 truckloads. 
Usually near the sawmills, but occasionally apart from them is the me- 
chanical manufacture of wood into other finished goods besides sawn planks. Thus 
there are 22 parket industries; 5 large furniture laths works ; over 14 case 
factories; 14 pulp works; 7 large factories of wooden pegs; 8 wooden shoe 
manufactures ; 13 large barrel works ; 50 large furniture factories and 16 factories 
manufacturing articlis from sprung wood. 
The following are the chemical manufactures from wood which are well 
developed.