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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, and communication is maintained by the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, the China Merchants' S. N. Company, and the China Navigation Company. In 1876 the Chefoo Convention was concluded at Chefoo by the late Sir Thomas Wade and the fornier Viceroy of Chilli, 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. Other very important industries are the manufacture 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 percentage of the cocoons from Corea and Manchuria which come to China. Seven new filatures were opened in 1909. There is now a large trade in hair net making, English firms send out the hair which is sent into the interior of the province and made into nets by children. The Netherlands Harbour Works on Sept. 1st, 1915, started work on the construction of the Chefoo Breakwater. Chefoo was in 1900 connected by telegraph cables with Tientsin, Port Arthur, Weiliaiwei, Tsingtau and Shanghai.
The trade of Chefoo is principally in beancake, vermicelli, ground-nuts and silks. The net value of the trade of the port for 1915 was Tls. 39,345,259 as compared with Tls 25,783,277 in 1914 and Tls. 31,641,224 in 1913.
Chefoo is much in need of railway communication as well as improvements in the harbour. It 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 in the north. During the season from March to December as many as twenty to thirty 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 nonths, and those returning reach Chefoo in the latter part of the year. Thi movement of coolies furnishes business for numbers of steamers.
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ANZ & Co., O. K., Merchants
O. H. Ánz (Europe)
W. Busse
C. W. Schmidt
DIRECTORY
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL-Teleph. 66; Tel. Ad:
Astor-Astor Cinema
E. Berruchon
BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS
E. W. Chun, inanager
Wong Tai Wha, asst. manager
古太 Tai-Koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire & Sons,
Ltd.), Merchants
W. Turner, signs per pro.
J. Thayer
Agencies
China Navigation Company, Ld. Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.
China Mutual Steam NavigationCo.,Ld. Australian Oriental Line
Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.
Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering_Co. of Hongkong, Ld., Agents for J. I. Thornycroft & Co., Ld.
Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn. British & Foreign Mar. Ins. Co., Ld. Sea Insurance Co., Ld.
Standard Marine Insurance Co., Ld. Hongkong & S'hai. Banking Corpn.
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CHEFOO LACE AND HAIR NET Co.-
Manufacturers and Exporters, Laces, Pongee and Hair Nets; Tei. Ad: Lacefilet