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KONGMOON
There are
also from the North River. The yearly value of this branch of the trade is estimated at about $750,000. Owing to the frequent piracies in the delta the cocoon market hitherto established at Junki has been transferred to Kongmoon, and the numerous steam launches and boats employed in this line of business give the port in front of the settlement a lively and animated appearance. two silk filatures in the town which afford employment to about 300 women each the total out-turn of silk amounts to about 100 catties per day. An interesting local industry is the dredging of large shells from which a good quality of lime is made. The annual production of these shells is estimated at 200,000 piculs, worth about $40,000. Quite an important industry has sprung up in Kongmoon, namely, the preserving and canning of Chinese fruit for export abroad, where it is consumed by the numerous Chinese in America, Australia and the Straits Settlements.
The unique opportunities presented for transport by the unrivalled waterways of the Delta have been well availed of by native enterprise, and there is a large and lucrative passenger trade with Canton, Fatshan, Sancheong, Hongkong and Macao, etc. Large roomy native passenger boats towed by powerful launches are engaged in this trade.
The surrounding country is picturesque, fertile and highly cultivated, and the inhabit- ants are prosperous and industrious. Rice is, of course, the principal crop, but mulberry shoots are very extensively cultivated for sale in the silk-producing centres, and large quantities of fresh vegetables are exported to supply the Hongkong market.
The net value of the port's trade in 1913 was Hk. Tls. 8,656,789, as compared with Tls. 6,610,077 in 1912, Tls. 5,501,892, in 1911; Tls. 6,138,386 in 1910, Tls. 5,301,242 in 1909, and Tls. 4,652,827 in 1908.
DIRECTORY
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co.
D. H. Willis, manager
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO Co.
V. R. Vick
CONSULATES
GERMANY
Consul-Dr. W. Rossler, residing at
Canton
GREAT BRITAIN
Consul-J. W. Jamieson, C.M.G., resid-
ing at Canton
ITALY
官事頜總利大意大
Tai I-tai-li Ling-sz-bùn
Consul General-Commendatore Z.
Volpicelli (residing in Hongkong)
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner- F. J. Smith Assistants-J. E. Hartshorn, A. H.
Forbes
Medical Officer-John A. McDonald Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-
H. G. Wittsack
Assistant Examiners--A. Roose, G. E.
Whiting
Tidewaiters-H. E. Olsen, D. B. Izatt, E. A. C. Friedrichsen, W. Filipovitch, M. J. Barreira, H. Scrimshaw, S, Heiberg, P. R. Neumann, H. Craw- shaw, J. Chipperfield, E. Lange
POST OFFICE, Chinese
Postal Commissioner-C. H. Shields
(Canton)
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK-Tel. Ad:
Socony
P. W. Parker, manager J. A. Murphy, assistant