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our writing-paper. Much of our coarse soap is made here , all 

 fine soaps are imported. Nearly all our caudles are imported. 

 We have no furnaces for smelting iron-ore, and no forges to 

 make wrought iron or steel. All our cutlery, stoves, cast iron, 

 firearms, cooking-utensils, nails, screws, locks, hinges, tin-ware, 

 copper, and copper-ware, are imported. So also are all our 

 lead and shot, wire, tin, zinc, solder, and sheathing-metal. All 

 our bottles are imported. A bottle-factory was established in 

 San Francisco, to make bottles out of broken glass, of which 

 much could be obtained in the large towns. This factory, 

 however, was shortly abandoned ; but there is a report that 

 it will soon be established again. 



