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ICHANG
entrance to the great Ichang gorge. The navigation of the river to this port is com- paratively easy for vessels of light draught, but great care is necessary for all vessels when in the neighbourhood of Sunday Island, owing to the shifting sand banks. The anchorage is off 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 ordi- nary 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, pomeloes, pears, plums, and a very superior quality of persimmons are grown and find a ready market in the city and at Shasi. Ichang has increased 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 export of opium in 1904 represented a value of Tls. 9,702,270.~ 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 houses doing business here. Fine new Consular and Customs buildings and shipping offices have recently been erected and have improved the appearance of the settlement very much. A German Post Office was opened in 1903.
The value of the trade of the port was in 1904, Tls. 37,090,245, against TIs.. 30,121,624 in 1903, Tls. 25,169,072, in 1902, Tls, 24,686,243, in 1901 and Tls. 23,143,617 in
1900.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants
Yew Cheong Wong, agent
Agencies
DIRECTORY
China Navigation Company, Limited
Union Insurance Society of Canton. Lal.
Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.
德立 í Li-teh
CHUNGKING TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED
A. J. Little, president (absent)
James W. Nicolson, magr. (Chungking)
R. Gericke, resident agent,signs per pro,
Agencies
North China Insurance Co., Ld.
China Mutual Life Assce. Co.
Upper Yangtse Syndicate, Ld.
CONSULATES
#ã Ta fa-ling.shih-fu 府事頒法大
FRANCE
Consul-M. Dejean de la Batie (H’kow)
Acting Consul-F. A. Kammerer, do.
Acting Vice-Consul--G. Hanchecorne
府事領英火 Ta Ying ling-shih-fu
GREAT BRITAIN
also
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
Consul--H. H. Fox
GERMANY
Acting Consul-M. Müller Secretary-W. Freder Ring
JAPAN
門衙事領本日大
Acting Consul-H. Kirino, for Shasï
and Ichang (residing at Shasi)
門衙國美大
* Ta-me-kwoh ya-men
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Consul General-L.S.Wilcox(Hankow)
Vice & Depy,Con.-Gen.--A.L.Šarle
關昌宜 I-chang-kwan
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
Commissioner-H. E. Wolf
Assistant J. W. Stephenson-Jellie, A.
de Broc
Medical Officer-W. Kirk, M.D., M.R.C.S..
Out-door Staff
Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor—
E. Molloy
Examiners-G. Kopp, J. Ferguson
Asst. do. —J. McMahon, M. W. Fraser Tidewaiters-G. A. Anderson, G. F.
Haynes, O. Rasmussen, D. Verner, I..
H. Roberts, R. Bulldeath, G. W. Lynch
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