Review of Industrial and Trade Conditions in Foreign Countries by American Consular Officers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ..."Dragon Head" Toyo Cotton Spinning Mills. Shirting, " Soldier and Sword" Toyo Cotton Spinning Mills. Drills, '-Dragon Head" Toyo Cotton Spinning Mills. Jeans, "? Kleplnuils ' Toyo Cotton Spinning Jlills. Jeans, " Bed and Blue Butterfly" Kanegopuchi Spinning & Weaving Co. weight heavily in favor of Ja; firms, excepting for machinery. These materials are used by the natives in manufacture of clothing, those for outer garments being dyed either black or blue. Large quantities of drills are used in making army uniforms, the cloth being dyed gray. Piece goods termed Japanese Cotton (-loth also command a large sale for lining purposes, the most popular brand being " Crown on Elephant." In addition to the foregoing staple brands, a considerable amount of sheetings, shirtings, drills, and nankeens manufactured in other ports of China are sold in the. local market; but this class of goods has not yet seriously affected the trade in the foreign manufactured article. In this vicinity are eight cotton-weaving establishments, fitted with hand looms and simple machinery of Japanese manufacture and using Japanese cotton yarn. Parti-colored fabric, including the wellknown "patriotic cloth" and an inferior Venetian, are, produced. Each establishment, with about 100 workers employed 10 hours per day for 10 months in the year, has a daily output of 50 bolts of 80 yards by 28 inches. In addition, numerous small hand looms operated in family households turn out small quantities of an inferior grade of cotton cloth. Of miscellaneous cotton goods in daily use among the Chinese, such as underwear, towels, caps, gloves, blankets, socks, and mufflers, fully 90 per cent are of Japanese manufacture, the only competition b...