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weeks ago a big bit of freight which is worth mentioning went up. This was the machinery for the mint which is to be established at Chengtu, to coin dollars, ete., for Szechuan. Some of the pieces ' were very heavy and unwieldly, and It was a business getting them first on tothe lighters and then on to the junk that was to take them up. One hopes they got safely to their destination.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.