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of manufacturing, more has been achieved as there 

 has been in operation for many years a silk thread 

 mill at Petaluma with a capacity of 60,000 pounds 

 a year. It uses raw silk grown and reeled in China 

 and Japan. Although silk-growing has been prac- 

 tically abandoned, there is still a degree of confidence 

 that silk manufacture from Oriental raw material 

 will ere long be a great industry in Calif ornia,. and 

 promotive effort in that line continues. 



