OTHER BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY. 325 
our writing-paper. Much of our coarse soap is made here, all 
fine soaps are imported. Nearly all our candles 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, 
fircarms, 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. 
