FUSAN-MASAMPO—MOKPO
警本日發公
SEOUL-FUSAN RAILWAY COMPANY
Agent-
POLICE STATION (JAPANESE)
Inspector in chief-I. Yendo
Do. -K. Nishimura
SEA PRODUCT COMPANY
R. Hayashi, manager
MASAMPO
浦山馬
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Masampo was opened to Foreign Trade on the 1st May, 1899.
Its native
population is 34,000 and foreign 116. Regular lines of small steamers connect the port
of Fusan. The imports in 1899 amounted to $61,287 and the exports to $21,446.
官事領本日
CONSULATE JAPAN
Consul-J. Sakata
Chancellor--T. Kokubu
DIRECTORY
MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
Chairman--J. Sakat
Secretary-H. Ogura
Treasurer-H. Houben
官事領國俄
關海浦山馬 韓
CONSULATE-RUSSIA
CUSTOMS
Vice-Consul-S. Sokov
署察 Kang Fut
HOUBEN, H. J., General Merchant
Acting Commnr.-R. Laporte (Fusan)
Acting Assistant in charge-H. G.
Arnous
T'-waiters-S. Fujimoto, G. Takahashi
MOKPO
蒲木 Moe-po
Mokpo, which, like Chinnampo, was opened to foreign trade on the 1st October, 1897, in pursuance of a resolution of the Council of State, is a seaport in the province of Chulla, and has an excellent harbour capable of providing anchorage accommodation for thirty or forty vessels of large tonnage. Chulla is a great rice growing district and has the reputation of being the wealthiest province in the country, and Mokpolies at the mouth of a river which drains nearly the whole province. The Consular report for 1898 says:-Mokpo has undergone a great transformation since it was opened eighteen months ago. It then consisted of a few Corean huts surrounded by paddy fields and mud flats. The foreign settlement, which comprises about 225 areas of ground, has now nearly all been bought up, and the mud flats are rapidly being converted into a town, with well laid out streets, occupied by about 1,200 Japanese and a number of substantial Chinese residents. A seawall and bundroad, over a mile in length, are in course of construction and will soon be completed. The climate of Mokpo is healthy and salubrious; the scenery much resembles that of South Japan and is picturesque in the extreme. Shooting may be had in perfection, and pheasants, geese, ducks, deer, wild boar and leopards abound. Even tigers will be met with plentifully by those who care to hunt for them. Instances are not at all rare in which pigs, dogs and even men are carried off by these beasts of prey. Many of the natives are experts in training eagles to hunt smallers birds, like pheasants, &c.