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to a gun store where we
were told by the manager
that the Chinese Government
did not allow them to
keep only a few guns for sale
at a time but most of their
stocks must be kept in the
vault, warehouse where permission
for direct guns another sale
was given by the vault. Shot
shells (Peters loaded)
were 8.50 Mex 1.00 which is
not high landed here. From
the gun store we went to
the Chinese fur shops on
Homan Road. Most of the
furs are said to come from
Manchuria, all were well
tanned. They had series of
skins of snow leopards with
the claws attached for $3.00.
48.00 Mex. Highly colored
orange tigers were 150.00 Mex.
White a guy was spinning
large size 7 were 15.00 Mex 20.00.