Enormous quantities of wool are exported irom the border annually, reluming as woollen caps, scarves Jand ower wearing apparel. The mountain water coming down from the snowy" heights is just what is necessary to clean this wool and provide the requisite electricity to ight and power woollen factories, Jagain providing graduate scholars with useful employment, Thousands or tons of rhubarb, garnered on the high Tibetan mon: tains, 18 exported irom the frontier to Shanghai every year. The patient yak carries it to Tachienlu, and the /more patient coolie carries it to Ya~ chow, thence by boat to the coast. Now why should this be so? Why nob establish a factory for te man-Jacture of this well-known purgative here on the border and kill two eyras with one stone?" These are only a sew of the raw materials which are exported from the Tibetan border.
Every year enormous quanuies of Yale hide, sheep's wool, goat's hair and other raw materials are exported from Tachienlu. Thousands of Chin se coolies carry in tea from Yachow and Tienchuen "returning empty handed, "the imports being " much more than the exports, and these coolles could be used to carry rich ]yak butter to Yachow, for export to the coast. In 1027 the U.K. Imported 48,000,000 worth of butter practically none of which came from the wild and woolly yak. Here in Tafchienlu really good. fresh butter sells at forty cents Mex.
Last year Mr. Mandevili leach students to refine yale butter, but the God of Wealth frowned furiously and the proposition was propped.
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