The foreign manufactured nail has been widely used in all kinds of constructional work in China during recent years. The Chinese nail has gone out of favour, both because of its clumsy appearance and of the cost of its production by the native blacksmith. A Mr. Sung and several other Chinese are now promoting a factory to make foreign-pattern nails by machinery. The capital is fixed at the concern will be called the Tung Sheng Nail Works of China.
An American citizen has been working with several Chinese merchants in the promotion of a brush-making factory. The initial stage has been passed. The
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