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royalty. Two companies representing foreign capital-the Yangtsze Land and Investment Company, Limited, and the I Li Coal and Mining Company, Limited- have purchased a number of the most valuable mining properties in the immediate neighbourhood of Wuhu. The Yu Fan Iron Mining Company completed a mountain railway, about five miles long, from their mines to the river bank at Tikiang, a small port thirty miles up river from Wuhu, in 1918 and they commenced to ship ore in October. Wuhu is the distributing centre for most of the rice harvested in Anhwei province, and merchants from Canton, Swatow, Ningpo and Chefoo are established here to .obtain supplies for their home markets. There is a large trade in timber, but that, like all other trades, is in the hands of the Chinese. There is a steam flour mill, a soap factory and a brick and tile manufactory. The soap does not sell well. The preservation of egg yolk and albumen is an industry which was started in 1897, and has been carried on with several changes of proprietorship.
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The town is fairly well built, with rather broader streets than most Chinese cities possess, and is tolerably paved. The tract of land selected 30 years ago for the_foreign settlement was definitely ceded in 1906, and sites were allotted to the Anhwei Railway Company and to various shipping companies, each lot having a river frontage of 600 to 1,100 feet. In 1914 the Ministry of Communications took over the Anhwei Railway Company with its entire assets and liabilities. Bunding operations have progressed satisfactorily, and the place has taken on a decided air of prosperity. The roads in the Foreign Settlement have now been completed and are well laid out, forming a good promenade for those who care to avail themselves of walking exercise Four large godowns have been built by Messrs. Butterfield & Swire on their ground in the New Settlement for storing rice, and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. have also acquired property in the vicinity. On the plots of ground acquired by the Asiatic Petroleum and the Standard Oil Companies below I-Chi-Shan, a hill which forms the lower boundary of the Foreign Settlements, the former company has erected oil godowns and the latter has also established premises. The Electric Light Co. appears to be doing well, for electric lighting has superseded that of oil to a great extent. The population of Wuhu is estimated at 100,000.
亞細亞 A-si-a
DIRECTORY
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA);
LTD., THE-Tel. Ad: Doric
N. L. Napier, local manager
P. J. Willson, inspector
R. F. Scott
C. Butland
A. B. Lester, instal. manager
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.
L. S. Caldwell, manager
W. J. Brehm
古太 * Ta-koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire & Sons, Ld.), Merchants-Tel. Ad: Swire
G. A. Chadwick, signs per pro.
Agencies
China Navigation Co., Ld.
Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.
China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld. Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co.
of Hongkong, Ld.
Australian Oriental Line
London & Lancashire Fire Ins. Co., Ld.
Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn.
British Traders Insce. Co., Ld. Guardian Assurance Co. (Fire), Ld. Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld.
British and Foreign Marine Ins. Co., Ld.
Orient Ins. Co., Ld.
Standard Marine Ins. Co., Ld.
Sea Ins. Co., Ld.
局商招
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
-Hulk "Bombay"
C. C. Li, agents
門衙事領國英大
Ta Ying Kuo Ling-sz Ya-mén
CONSULATE GREAT BRITAIN Tel. Ad:
Britain
Consul C. C. A. Kirke (Wuhu and
Kiukiang)