Successful Efforts: Industry to Be Fostered Frow On Own Comsesronoest, San Francisco, July 18, The idea that silk could be produced on a profitable basis in is by no means a new some years past experi:
jon has been carried on in parts of the state but, though considerable energy of expression has characterized what has been accomplished there are still wanting signs that the world's supply will be seriously affected by the amount produced, There now comes from Merced county-—an area between San Francisco and Los Angeles—a claim that silk culture as a definite industry can be and will be undertaken in the near future, The small hat energetic chamber of commerce of Merced is in possession of specimens of silk grown and spun in the neighbourhood, and those competent to judge declare that it compares favourably with any silk brought to this country from either China or Japan, Officials of a silk spinning plant in San Francisco are reported to have. subjected these specimens to a thorough test, its quality being claimed to be very high inde it transpires that, in the particular county of Merced it can not only be produced in as jzreat a volume ax may be desired, Hour will prove to be a pay investment to those engaging in ithe industry. There are those, moreover, who claim that the time }will come when a large percentage fof the silk used in Eastern mills oni whether }will go from California, and that mills situated in this state will be Supplied. entirely. by the home: rumoured, that our Produced commodity, view of diplomatic recognition "of "Russia Previous experiments, it would will be withdrawn. This step may probably be unwise to expect too be taken in time, but it will not be Jmuch, for considerable time has just yet, though Russia's Chinere Policy has greatly exacerbated would become silk feeling. state. At the same time, there can bbe no doubt that the specimens now What the govt. is Doing in the possession of the Merced But the present Government en-trade organization is as good as Oriental silk, Joys confidence, despite its absence of any definite' programme for the relief of unemployment. The new Insurance Scheme is passing this week, and ax 15,000,000 people are benefiting the good results be felt in the near future, Some legislation will, however, "have to go over till the Autumn Session, as Parliament is adjourning probably august 8th. I do not pretend that the Ministry is not criticised, but I think its position is pretty well as strong as ever, and there till optimists regarding trade, 'a8 apparently not a few think we have turned the corner. We have been obliged to pass the Unemployment Insurance Bill which mainly Proposes to make the waiting Period of unemployment six. day= instead of three days, though if in six weeks a man has two periods of three days unemployment he can add them together and count them a week. Action of this kind was really urgent, according to the Government Actuary, and dstuming that the: numbers on the Live register remain at 1,300,000 until the end of the year, the debt
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