p. 10 | ALL ABOUT MATCHES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 18, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 45.

ALL ABOUT MATCHES.

SWEDEN has the oldest and largest match factory in the world. Matches were made there long before the old, roughly trimmed splinter of wood tipped with sulphur was discarded with the tinder boxes for which they were used. In twenty-five years the export trade of Sweden in modern matches increased to 1,000,000 boxes a year. Some of the machines for making the matches which we use in these days make 200 revolutions a minute each, and turn out about 2,500,000 boxes annually. Altogether there are in Europe about 50,000 factories, and they yearly produce matches valued at $50,000,000.—World.