CHEFOO
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The trade of Chefoo, which is increasing, is principally in Beancake and Beans, of which large quantities are annually exported to the southern ports of China. In 1906 the net export of Beancake amounted to 1,144,814 piculs, as against 1,233,180 piculs in 1905, 1,117,658 in 1904, and 1,192,948 piculs in 1903. Silk, Strawbraid, Ground- nuts and Vermicelli are the other chief exports. The import of Opium was 603 piculs of Indian brands, as no supplies came from Manchuria. The net value of the trade of the port for 1906, after deducting re-exports, was Tls. 34,740,267, as compared with Tls. 39,131,384 in 1905.
Chefoo is much in need of railway communication as well as improvements in the harbour, and both of these undertakings are under contemplation by Chinese capital- ists. These improvements, in the estimation of business men, will greatly develop the importance of Chefoo as a trade centre. An extensive work known as the Chefoo City Bund and Reclamation Scheme is expected to greatly improve the port, and if present intentions are fulfilled, the first model town under native jurisdiction will arise on the reclaimed land. Chefoo is an important port of call for large numbers of regular line and tramp steamers, being in the line of communication between Indian, South China, Japanese, Corean and Manchurian ports and the ports north. During the season from March to December as many as thirty to forty steamers per day often enter and clear the port. The cable and telegraph offices with chambers for employees, are the most substantial and imposing buildings of the kind in China, excepting the Shanghai buildings. The port supplies Vladivostock and Siberia with upwards of one hundred thousand coolies annually; the coolies leave for Vladivostock during the spring months and those returning reach Chefoo in the latter part of the year. This movement of coolies furnishes business for numbers of steamers.
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DIRECTORY
AKIHO & Co., T., Shipping Agents and Coal and Marine Produce Commission Merchants
AMERICAN ASIATIC COMMERCIAL Co.
A. C. Taylor, manager
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ANZ & Co., Merchants
O. H. Ánz
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C. Benck (Tsingtau)
W. Busse, signs per pro.
C. W. Schmidt
W. Anz
C. Okabe
Agencies
Norddeutscher Lloyd
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Oesterreichischer Lloyd
Osaka Shosen Kaisha
Rickmers' Line of Steamers
Shell Transport and Trading Co.
"Dollar" Steamship Lines
Portland and Asiatic S.S. Co.
Nippon Shosen Kaisha
Russian East Asiatic S.S. Co., Ld.
Salamandra Insce. Co., St. Petersburg
Deutsche Transport Vers. Ges., Berlin China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld. Northern Assurance Company Mannheim Insurance Company, Ld. Magdeburg Fire Insurance Company Deutscher Lloyd Tranport V. A. G. Deutsche Ruck Mitvers. Ges., Berlin
Germ. Transport Vers. Akt. Ges., Berlin Eastern Carrying, I S. W. Co., St. Ptsbg. Verein Bremer Seeversicherungs Ges. L'Urbaine de Paris
Rheinisch-Westfal. Lloyd, M. Gladbach International Banking Corporation Java-China Japan Lijn
Chinese Engineering & Mining Co., Ld. Dampfschiffs-Rederei, "Union," A.G. Baloise Fire Insurance Co.
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society
"Albeingia" Tus. Co.
Yokohama Specie Bank
亞細亞 A-si-a
ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LD., THE
Cornabé, Eckford Co., agents
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL
E. Predolin
E. Berruchon
店飯南 Nan-fan-din
BEACH HOTEL Co.
C. F. Wong, bookkeeper
K. S. Yu, clerk
古太 Tai-Koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants
M. Beart, signs per pro.
J. Cox Norman Hornsby
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