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Mine-Department
CHANGSHA—ICHANG
Fr. Lux, M.E, engineer in charge and
acting engineer in chief
H. Schlifter, overviewer
do..
W. Osenbrueck, viewer
K. Boehm,
J. Ilger,
de.
G Saatweber,
do.
H. Rother,
do.
O. Meyer,
do.
J. Hassler,
do.
H. Schneider,
do.
M. Schwerber,
do.
Engineering Department
W. W. E. Schmidt, engineer in charge
W. Strenger, mech. engineer
Ch. Brandt, mech.
E. Schmidt, electrician
Medical Department
Dr. W. Zimmermann,
School of Mines
do.
Dr. W. Schmidt, professor
Railway Department
H. Buechner, superindendent
Shipping and sales Office, Hankow
Wong Wen Po, agent
POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL
R. H. Humphrey, B.SC.
Earl C. Lane, B.A.
W. Herbert Wood, B.A.
M. Kukbota
POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE
District Postmaster(ex-officio) —C.E.S.
Wakefield
Acting District Inspector-in-Charge--
O. Mellows
SCHWARZ, Gaumer & Co.
Rudolf Schnabel
STANDARD OIL Co.
J. H. Morgan
TELGE & SCHROETR
Fritz Bahnso
YALE COLLEGE
C. B. Gage, B.A,
W. J. Hail, M. A., B.D., Dean
E. D). Harvey, MA.
K. S. Latourette, PH.D.
D. H. Leavens, B.A.
Mrs. Lawrence Thurston, B. se.
YALE HOSPITAL
E. H. Hume, M.D.
F. C. Yen, M.D., D.T.M.
Miss N. D. Gage, nurse
ICHANG
昌宜 I-Chang
lchang is one of the four ports opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1877, in accordance with Clause 1, Section 3, of the Chefoo Convention. It is situated in lat. 30° 44′ 25′′ N., long. 111° 18′ 34′′ E., on the north bank of the river Yangtze, about 393 miles above Haukow, and some ten miles below the entrance to the great Ichang Gorge, or just about a thousand miles from the coast.
thousand miles from the coast. The navigation of the river to this port is comparatively easy for vessels of light draught, but great care is necessary for all vessels when in the neighbourhood of Sunday Island, owing to the shiftings and banks. Ichang is practically the present limit of steam navigation on the Yangtze. 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.