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YOCHOW
The city of Yochow is perched on a bluff in a very picturesque way. Its site is, however, not adapted for a transit trade, and it offers no shelter for small craft. The port has, therefore, been opened at Chenglin, five miles to the north and only a mile from the Yangtsze, where a small creek provides the needed shelter for cargo-boats, and a good anchorage is found for steamers. Here the Chinese Government has set aside a place for a cosmopolitan settlement, for which they themselves will provide roads, police, etc.; the site contains level ground for business purposes, well raised, but not too high, above flood limits, while higher ground gives good and healthy sites for foreign houses. Work on the formation of the settlement and bunding operations were commenced in 1900, and a new Custom-house and quarters have been built. Yochow is described by the Customs Commissioner as "doubtless the healthiest town in the Yangtse Valley, considering the insanitary conditions." In 1900, really the first open year of the port, the net value of the trade was Tls. 143,827. In 1903 it amounted to Tls. 3,473,241, but in 1905 the value was Tls. 490,058 only, and in 1907 the returns show a net value of Tls. 1,354,155. The decline since 1904 is the result of the opening of Changsha as a Treaty Port.
The noteworthy feature of 1907 was the connection of Changteh by steamer during the high water season-June to October-the resulting trade being valued at Tls. 617,000. Buoys and lights were established to mark the channel across the lake. The difficulties and risks of this route are considerable, and it is probable that it will be found advisable to adopt the somewhat longer route via Lolintan, though, on account of the sharp bends of the River Yuan in its lower reaches, specially adapted steamers will probably have to be used.
DIRECTORY
AUGUSTINIAN MISSION OF NORTHERN HUNAN Rt. Rev. Bishop Luis Perezy Perez,
vicaire apost., Lichow
Rev. Fr. A. Martinez (Lichow)
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E. Fernandez (Yung Kiang) A. Arroyo (Sesueit❜ien)
V. Andrés (Niehkiashih)
N. Puras (Hwajung)
A. Gonzalez (Changteh) L. Ramirez (Louki)
B. Gonzalez (Tselisien)
Rev. Fr. B. Yheas (Nanchowting)
J. Hospital (Yochow City) V. Ferrero (Niehkiashih) V. Martinez (Shenchowfu) A. Diego (Gan-siang)
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S. de la Torre, Vic. Prov.
(Yochow)
A. de Paz (Yochow City) A. Fernandez (Yalan)
F. Bernardo (Tsinse)
Rev. Fr. J. Pons, Procurador
Do.
(Hankow)
S. Palomino (Lungyang) Do. S. P Longyang (Lungyang) B. Fernandez (Kaiki Kiao) P. Pelaz (Sesueit'ien)
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H. Martinez (Semensien)
關州岳 CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
Commissioner-R. Kurosawa Assistants-M. P. Hyde, G. Müller Acting Tidesurveyor-T. H. Gwynne Asst. Examiner O. R. J. Konig Tidewaiters-W. Keeler, J. B. Gjern
POLICE
T. H. Gwynne
POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE (Yochwo
District)
District Postmaster-R. Kurosawa Acting District Inspector (Chang-
teh)-E. Caretti
District Inspector (Kweiyang)—E. T.
S. Newman
REFORMED CHURCH OF THE UNITED STATES
Dr. Wm. E. Hoy and wife Mr. Frank Buches and wife Mr. Horace Lequear Rev. W. Reimart and wife Dr. W. Adams and wife Miss A. Traub
Miss Hannah Kanne
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