CHEFOO
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autumn and through the winter, and the roadstead gives but an uncomfortable, though safe, anchorage for steamers. In 1909, nearly two months were lost to trade through stress of weather and the entire mercantile community appreciates the necessity for proper harbour works, including a protecting breakwater and quay. Another pressing need is a good water supply. There is a good club. The races take place towards the end of September. Chefoo is two days' journey from Shanghai, aud communication is maintained by the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, the China Merchants' S. N. Company, the China Navigation Company, the Hamburg America Linie, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha. In 1876 the Chefoo Convention was concluded at Chefoo by the late Sir Thomas Wade and the former Viceroy of Chihli, Li Hung-chang. An enterprise was established a few years ago by a Wine Company of substantial standing; the soil of the locality lends itself to such an industry, and the future success of the proprietors of the first Far Eastern wine growing concern is a matter of considerable interest. Chefoo is noted for its large and increasing fruit growing industry, supplying Shanghai, Vladivostock, Kobe and other Eastern ports with foreign fruits, which grow well with care and attention in that part of Shantung-the native fruit growers having received foreign instruction—so that which was at first a hobby is now a paying industry. Seven new filatures were opened in 1909. Other very important industries are the manu- facture of foreign silk and hand-made silk laces, which in the hands of foreigners promise to assume large proportions. Silk thread and silk twist are largely made and exported from here to France, Germany and America. Chefoo uses a large per- centage of the cocoons from Corea and Manchuria which come to China. Chefoo was
in 1900 connected by telegraph cables with Tientsin, Port Arthur, Weihaiwei, Tsingtau and Shanghai.
The trade of Chefoo is principally in beancake and beans, of which large quantities are annually exported to the southern ports of China. A slight reduction, however, has been shown in the export during the past few years, owing, no doubt, to the diversion of some of this trade to Dairen. The beancake export from Chefoo down to 1907 amounted to well over a million piculs annually, but in the last few years it has fallen below the million. Silk, strawbraid, groundnuts, and vermicelli are the other chief exports. The net value of the trade of the port for 1911 was Tls. 30,370,544 as compared with Tls. 30,195,783 in 1910.
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. Chefoo is an important port of call for large numbers of regular line and tramp steamers, being in the line of communication be- tween Indian, South China, Japanese, Corean and Manchurian ports and the ports in the north. During the season from March to December as many as thirty to forty steamers per day often enter and clear the port. 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.
ANZ & Co., Merchants
An-er
C. Benck (Tsingtau)
O. H. Anz
W. Busse,
C. W. Schmidt,
H. Wagner
DIRECTORY
signs the firm
do.
C. Okabe
Agencies
Norddeutscher Lloyd
Oesterreichischer Lloyd Osaka Shosen Kaisha
Rickmers' Line of Steamers
Di:
Shell Transport and Trading Co. "Dollar" Steamship Lines Portland and Asiatic S.S. Co. Northern Assurance Company Mannheim Insurance Company, Ld. Union Marine Insurance Co. Magdeburg Fire Insurance Company Deutscher Lloyd Tranport V. A. G. Deutsche Rück Mitvers. Ges., Berlin Germ. Transport Vers. Akt. Ges., Berlin Salmandra Insce. Co., St. Petersburg Eastern Carrying, 1.S.W. Co., St. Ptsbg. Verein Bremer Seeversicherungs Ges.
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