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“...an increase of 2,082.128
gallons in quantity and 35,189/. in value. The oil was American
case oil, and was imported by the Standard Oil Company of the
United States of America.
Machinery to the value of 275,629/. was imported during 1906 Machinery,
as against 190,342/. in the previous year, showing an increase of
85,287/. The machinery imported was principally for the Imperial
Government iron and steel works at Wakamatsu, the various coal
mines in the district, the Kiushiu Railway, the cotton mills and
the sugar refinery at Dairi. Steam boilers and engines Came
principally from the United Kingdom, locomotive engines chiefly
from the United States of America; while spinning and other
machinery was imported from the United Kingdom, the United
States, Germany and Belgium.
The total import of metals and manufactures of metals during Metals.
1906 amounted to 143,673/., a decrease as compared with the
previous year of 56,803/. Iron ore, for the Imperial Government
iron and steel works at Wakamatsu...”
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