The grain bag trade on the I’apllfc coast last year amqnnfcrd to 3 > bags, and the indications »jpw ‘ are that a.CQ.*/ QOQ iiv/ip v/jll he yerpprad for the whest pVqy th'-s season. The prospect for a large wheat yield never was better. The entire bag capacity of the California Jute Mill Company is about 1,250,000 Eer yegr, and pot more than this number cap o nrqdupod by tho dophle shift prison force at San Quentin. The great bulk of these goods, or' over 30,000,000 bags, comes to the coast from Calcutta. They are filled with grain and shipped to Liverpool, and from there they are returned to New York as second-hand bags, which can never be used for wheat, but are used for bagging vegetables and mill offajs,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 859, 17 August 1888, Page 15
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