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extensive repairs will probably be necessary before it can safely be opened to general traffic. Owing to financial and other difficulties due to the European War no further work on the railway is being undertaken, at this end, south of Chuchow.
The export of coal and coke is becoming an important feature in the trade of the district. The coke, which is said to be of excellent quality, is used almost exclusively by the Hanyang Iron Works: the coal is finding an extending market for bunker use. colliery is under excellent management, and the supply is said to be almost limitless.
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With its fertile plains, mountains seamed with mineral wealth, and its sturdy population, there would seem to be a brilliant future before this province. Until however, modern machinery is applied, railway communication extended, and capital introduced, no great expansion can be anticipated. The climate of Changsha is excellent There is no great heat; the summer is short, and there is no malaria, the poisonous mosquito not existing here; When the railway is open the scenery traversed will make this journey the most popular in China.
ANDERSEN, MEYER & Co., Ltd.
A. Campbell, manager
A. E. Ferris
DIRECTORY
司公油火亞細亞商英
Ying-shang A-si-a-huo-yu-kung-si
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),
LTD.Tel. Ad: Doric; Codes: Bentleys, A.B.C. 5th Ed.
N. V. Cooke, local manager
J. L. Bowker
1. F. Drysdale, travelling inspector Miss Moran, stenographer W. Horner, installation manager
AN* Ying-song-kung-way BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
N. V. Cooke, hon. sec.
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACco Co.
John H. Crocker
C. W. Stocks
Taikoo 古太
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &
Sons, Ltd.), Merchants
H.S. Kennett, signs per pro.
Agencies
China Navigation Co., Ltd.
Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.
Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co.
of Hongkong, Ltd., Agents for J. I. Thornycroft & Co., Ltd.
Ocean Steam Ship Co., Ltd.
China Mutual S. N. Co., Ltd.
London & Lancashire Fire Insurance
Co., Ltd.
Orient Insurance Co., Ld.
Royal Exchange Assce. Corporation
British Traders Insurance Co., Ld. Guardian Assurance Co., Ld. Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ltd. British & Foreign Marine Insurance
Co., Ltd.
Standard Marine Insce. Co., Ld. Sea Insurance Co., Ld.
COLLEGE OF YALE IN CHINA, J. R. B. Branch, M.D.
F. L. Chang, PH.B., M.F. D. T. Davidson, H.D., D.P.H. H. J. Dunham
B. Gage, M.A., B.D.
Miss N. D. Gage, B.A., R.N. W. J. Hail, M.A., B.D. E. D. Harvey, M.A., B.D. E. H. Hume, M.A., M.D. D. H. Leavens, M.A. R. W. Powell, C.E. H. V. Smith, M.A. Miss M. Warfield J. W. Williams, M.A. Z. Z. Zee, PH.B.
CONSULATES
AMERICAN
Mahlon F. Perkins, consul
THE
John B. Nicholson, vice-consul
GREAT BRITAIN-Tel. Ad: Britain
Consul, Lancelot Giles (also in charge
of Norwegian interests)
JAPAN
M. Yagi, acting consul
K. Kawauchi, chancellor
R. Furukawa, police inspector