About 40 cloth mills in Chang-province, have been closed, owing to trade depression.
About 100 cloth mills in Nanking' are tarning out Nantung. gingham with cotton yarn supplied from Shanghai, They own over 1,000 wooden Yooms, valued at about $80
Weavers using both machine and wooden looms in Soochow recently received wage increase of 10 per cent. after a strike. The scale formerly in force for skilled workers was $1 a day.
The collective wealth of Fukien overseas merchants is $2,000,000, Chen Pung-orien, a German returned student, has been appoint ed by Civil Governor Teng to plan the proposed Svechuan Steel and Iron Works in Chungking.
Of the 40 big industrial works along the Kinochow-sirian Railway Shantung province, 23 are inn need by Fapanese capital and YF by Chinese. The total eapitalization of these establishments amounts to Y. 9,742,000 of which 260,000 is Chinese capital, and $2,850,600, of which $15,600 Japanese capital. The works consist of 3 lime works, 1 soda factor 1 tobacco factory, 2 black bone factories, 5 egg powder factories, 4
000, according to Mr, J. Lil, Macoun, Commissioner of Customs at Amoy, who quotes Chinese bankers as his An industrial conference was sible filatures, 2 flour mills, 5 brick and tile factories, 2 rouge and green vitriol factories, 5 saltpetre factories, 3 pottery works, 1 iron works, 2 breweries, 1 electric power cently held at Mukden, Delegates p) ut, 1 tannery, L bean oil mill representing the Governors, Indys-trial Commissioners and Taoyins the Three Eastern Provinces and 1 chalk and slate factory. were An agenda of 11 items, is subjects such as inspection of factories in Menehuria, the establishment of ore local workhouxes for the} ovr, sud the encouragement of calnaiaation on the borders, wax A report recently issued, by the Avia Life Insurance Company shows that in July they did more than $1,000,000 worth of business. This ix claimed to be the largest amount of life insurance ever done
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