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freshets, when the anchors should be sighted every two or three days. The port is the centre of a hilly country, the productions of which are rice in the valleys, cotton on the higher grounds, winter wheat, barley, and also the tungtzu trees, from which the ordinary wood oil is obtained by pressing the nuts gathered from the trees. In the sheltered valleys, amongst the mountain ranges west of the city, oranges, lemons, pomelos, pears, plums, and a very superior quality of persimmons are grown and find a ready market in the city and at Shasi. Ichang continues to increase in importance since the opening of Chungking. All cargo for the latter port is landed here and transferred to chartered junks. In the same way cargo brought down in chartered junks from Chungking and intended for the lower river and coast ports is shipped here on river steamers, which make regular voyages to and from Hankow.
Native opium is largely grown from here westwards, and is increasing in quantity and improving in quality. The climate of Ichang is drier than that of the lower river ports-summers very warm, winters dry and pleasant. The native population is estimated at about 35,000. The foreign residents are few in number, educated native.. agents representing the four or five foreign hongs doing business here. Fine new Consular and Customs buildings have recently been erected and have improved the appearance of the setttlement very much.
The net value of the trade of the port, excluding transhipment cargo, was in 1895 Tls. 1,496,031 and in 1894 Tls. 1,263,624. The foreign imports amounted to Tls. 625,157-
AMERICAN CHURCH MISSION
Rev. H. C. Collins, M.D.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants
Yew Cheong Wong, agent
Agencies
DIRECTCRY
China Navigation Company, Limited
Union Insurance Society of Canton.
會地內
CHINA INLAND MISSION: Tel. Ad. Inland
Rev. Geo. Hunter, M.A.
W. Gemmell
M. Peden
CHINA MERCHANTS STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
Lu Hsiang, manager
司公險保川利
CHUNGKING TRANSPORT COMPANY, LD.
Archd. J. Little, manager
Shuen Ting-Sin, acting manager
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND MISSION
Rev. Wm. and Mrs. Deans
Rev. Thos. R. and Mrs. Kearney
David Rankin, M.A., M.B., C.M.;
Ta Ying ling-shih
CONSULATE GREAT BRITAIN
Consul-W. Holland
Constable J. A. Reynolds
門衙事領本日大
CONSULATE JAPAN
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Consul-H. Eitaki, readg. at Shasi
*** Ta-me-kwoh ya-men 門衙國美大
CONSULATE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Consul-Jacob T. Child (Hankow)
關昌宜 I-chang-kwan
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
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Commissioner-F. E. Woodruff
Assistant-W. R. McD. Parr Do. -R. P. Wrench
Med. Officer-D. Rankine, M.A., M.B.,C.M. Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor-
W. Nelson Lovatt
Acting Boat Officer-H. A. Farrell. Assistant Examiners-C. H. Erskine,
G. Kopp
Tidewaiters-G. Houlston, F.J. Rousell,
J. L. McDowall, T. J. Edwards, F. S. Jobst, A. Gray, J. A. Urquhart
Jardine, MathESON & Co., Merchants
C. Him-shan, agent
Agencies
Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited Canton Insurance Office, Limited
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
JENKINS, M. A., Merchant; res. Hankow
德立 Lih-teh
LITTLE & CO., ARCHD., Merchants; Owners
Str. "Y-ling
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Arch. Little (Chungking)
Shüan Ting-sui
Agencies
North China Insurance Company. China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld.
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