manufacture was founded. Later it became known as the broadcloth factory, which ceased operating after a great fire in 1926.
In the 1870s Ulvila's first steam sawmill and some brick factories were established. Ulvila's tiny leather workshops of the latter half of the nineteenth century were united to form a vast production facility, the Leather Factory Ltd. of Friitala (i. e. Friitalan Nahkatehdas Oy), founded by Arthur Hellman.
Kokemäenjoki had been an ideal lane for floating timber. Timber floating began in the latter half of the 1800s and it only ceased in the 1960s. Transportation on the Kokemäenjoki was performed by several steamboats serving already in the 1870s.
After some debates and planning which had lasted for twenty years, the construction of the Pori-Tampere railroad was started in the 1890s, the decade at the middle of which it was made ready. Railway had significant influence on the traffic arrangements in Ulvila. First, Haistila was selected to become railway station place, and Friitala was only to have a stop. Later, on request by the municipality of Ulvila, Friitala became a railway station.
Crossing Kokemäenjoki had for centuries happened by boats. The first ferry ever was the one at Haistila, which was used less after ferry traffic had started at Friitala by the ferry which the locals called "Friitalan lossi". The first telephone line from Pori to Ulvila was readied for use in 1893. At the very beginning there were only 19 telephone orders in Ulvila, and some thirty years later there were but fifty phone numbers in Ulvila
