CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12] — Page 370

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manufactured here — as are also, and to

a considerable extent camphor wood

articles; all of which is to the employment

of much labor - But the cheapness

ana.

of stonecutting here, the great want of stone ready cut for building California,

a s

in

sandy region, promise

ترکیه

ری

Considerable market in this

this article, which

ballast;

is readily taken, freight free, as and cannot be laid down so cheaply from any quarter as from this. At- present-California imports bricks round Caps Hom from Liverpool and New York .

For the supply of the Californian

market, we on speculate on

an ang

the

here some

possibility of our having he

establishments of Son gee

ce locavers;

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bat

the inducement to a Chinese to emigrate

must be

strong:

there

is a better chance

of the dyers and printers of the coarse

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silks.

Coming

here,

as the duty on dype stuffs

would be saved in a free port. But the

ce is the most s

sugar despatched, hen satisfactory export, as the great probable

staple of exports from China to the West, and as an article usually exchanged

with opium ; while the repacking of it

here

Cd a

farther

Fokien sugar

A dr

antage

to

the Colony :

could be laid down here

at 10 or 12 per cent cheaper than Canton

Sugar

Coming

either in Coasters, or

coasters, or foreign

down in ballast.

vessels

The Chinese population about

to spring up on the west coast of America) must not be forgotten, an a for thes Hongkong will be the Chief Port of supply .

Two thousand Chinese

have

already left China for the West Coast; the dearth of labor fell from Valparaison le Lima and

the Mexican sea will:

::astly swell this number.

The