Identifier: kingdomofsiam00cart (find matches)
Title: The kingdom of Siam..
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Carter, A. C. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: N.Y. and Lond
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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eyear 1902 was equal to nearly one million ticals. Various sorts of wood are produced and ex-ported, such as agilla, sapan, padoo, yellow-wood,box, ebony, and rose, but the trade in these woodsdoes not seem to increase, as no effort is made togrow them systematically. Jungle products, suchas hides and horns, are gradually being worked out,and will in time disappear unless efforts are made topreserve the deer in the interior. Rubies and sap-phires are exported in a rough condition for sale onthe London market. This trade, however, seemsto be gradually diminishing. The silk trade looksto be entering on a more prosperous future. UnderJapanese instructors the Siamese are developing theproduction of this article, and it is hoped that intime it will become one of Siams most importantindustries. Bullocks are exported to Singapore. This trade isnot improving, for various reasons. Disease has un-fortunately year by year prevented the exportationfor some months at a time. The trade is a profit-
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< Commerce 253 able one, and every effort is made by the dealersto secure animals, but up to the present cattle-breeding is not sufficiently organized to createa permanent supply, hence this branch runs therisk of extinction by the exhaustion of the suppliesavailable. The imports of Siam cover the whole field ofmanufactured articles, and they are drawn fromalmost every part of the globe. Cotton 1 1 11 1 1 • • 1 Imports. goods bulk largely m every importedcargo of general goods. They come principally fromEngland, India, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Ger-many, France, and Denmark, being almost invari-ably transshipped at Singapore, and from Americaand Japan, coming via Hong-Kong. Cotton goodsare amongst the most valuable imported. Thepeople are year by year demanding more cloth-ing, as the fashion for wearing foreign cloth extendsgradually over the whole interior. The printedcottons for nether garments, called by the Siamese palais or ^patas, come principally from India andSwitzer

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