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“...latter,
of the value of 219,864/., shows the preference that exists for
them. In addition to being used for clothing, these drills and
sheetings are much in demand for making sails for the thousands
of boats engaged in the bean trade between the interior and the
port. Another competitor in the cotton trade is China herself.
Durine-': the year under review, 23,620 pieces of Chinese shirtings,
30,200 pieces of sheetings, and 4,000 lbs. of yarn were imported.
In other words, the Shanghai cotton mills supplied Newchwang
with shirtings in excess, of those supplied by England, which
amounted to only 25,352 pieces....”
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“...920 piculs of beans in the
process. The beans will be crushed by iron rollers driven by
steam, and will feed 100 screw presses, which will be worked by
hand labour. The total output of beancakes in nine months, that is
from March to November (the oil cannot be extracted in winter
owing to the severe frost), will thus be about 30,000 tons, or one
fifth of the average annual fexport. If this mill proves a success,
and there is every reason to believe that it will, it is not unlikely
that rival mills will be started.
The increasing importance of Southern Manchuria as a wild Paw wild silk
silk district is being recognised, and a German firm has ail expert in(lvst,y
o o ' l awaits
superintending the reeling of this silk at a place some 30 miles to development,
the east of the port. It may well be asked, would it not pay to
establish a silk filature in this port? This wild silk has a lustre,
strength and elasticity unsurpassed by mulberry silk; but the
native method of reeling is very defective...”
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