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ICHANG
when in the neighbourhood of Sunday Island, owing to the shifting sand banks. The anchorage off is the left bank, opposite the foreign residences, and is good, except in 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 1896 Tls. 2,210,301 and in 1895 Tls. 1,496,031. The foreign imports amounted to Tls. 899,558.
AMERICAN CHURCH MISSION
Rev. H. C. Collins, M.D.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants
Yew Cheong Wong
Agencies
DIRECTORY
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
J. R. Bruce
CHINA MERCHANTS STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
Chin Yung, inanager
司公喙保川利
CHUNGKING TRANSPORT COMpany, Ld.
Archd. J. Little, manager
Liu Chun Ching, local manager
CHURCH of Scotland MISSION
Rev. Thos. R. Kearney
David Rankine, M.A., M.B., C.M. Miss E. Smith
Miss M. E. Moore, B.A.
Miss C. G. Fraser
** Ta Ying ling.shih 事頠英大
CONSULATES
Great BriTAIN
Consul-W. Holland
Constable J. A. Reynolds
JAPAN
門衙事頜本日大
Consul-H. Eitaki, resdg. at Shasi
門衙國美大
@ Ta-me-kwoh ya-men
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Consul-Jacob T. Child (Hankow)
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN MISSION
Dr. and Mrs. Logan
WE I-chang-kwan CUSTOMS-IMperial MarITIME
Assistant-in-charge W. R. McD. Parr Assistant-R. F. Wrench
Do. —R. L. C. d'Anjou
Med. Officer--D. Rankine, M.A., M.B., C.M. Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor-
W. Nelson Lovatt
Acting Boat Officer-H. A. Farrell Examiner-C. H. Erskine
Asst. Examrs-G. Kopp, G. Houlston Tidewaiters-F. J. Rowsell, T. J.
Edwards, A. Gray
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants
C. Him-shan, agent
Agencies
Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited Canton Insurance Office, Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
Lih-tel
LITTLE & Co., ARCHD., Merchants
Arch. Little (Chungking)
Liu Chun Ching
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