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building. Numbers of new native factories sprung 

 up. Of 415 factories now standing in the district, 

 323 have been built during the last 14 years. At 

 the present time only 29 factories with 1 1 5 pairs of 

 vats are the property of, or held by, Europeans and 

 Eurasians. The rest (386 factories with 607 pairs of 

 vats) are the property of, or held by, natives. 



