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HANKOW-YOCHOW
行銀金正濱橫
Heng-pin cheng-chin yin-hang
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK - - 13,
Bund;
Teleph. 467, 105, 299; Tel. Ad: Specie
H. Kashiwagi, manager
S. Takenouchi, sub-manager
J. Tanabe, p. p. manager
會年青教督基口漢
Hankow Chitn-chiao Ch'ing-nien-hui
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF
HANKOW-Tel. Ad: Flamingo; Codes:
Missions C.I.M., Western Union
Secretaries-A. M. Guttery, T. K. Hu,. L. Hall, C. C. Shedd, Roa Chih An,- W. E. Frantz, W. P. Mills, W. C.
Yang, C. C. Kwan, P. Jowe, J. H. Lin,. N. K. Ip and C. L. Wang
會年青敎督基昌武
Wuchang Chitu-chiao Ch'ing-nien-hui
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF
WUCHANG-54, Fu Yuen Kai, Wuchang;
Teleph. 262; Tel. Ad: Jordan
Secretaries-Waynee Jordan, H. M.
Wagner
YOCHOW
Yochow, with a population of 15,000 to 20,000, is situated in latitude 29.° 25.′ 29′′ N and longitude 113° 11′ 6′′ E. (Greenwich), at the outlet of the Tungting Lake. Past it ebbs and flows practically the whole of the trade of Hunan, which, however, adds no- thing to the prosperity of the place, as it simply passes by after having paid its inward and outward taxes. The city is the gateway of the province and nothing more. British, American, Japanese and Chinese firms maintain regular conmunication with Changteh, Yiyang and Chinshih, the trade centre of western Hunan. The opening of Changsha took away much of Yochow's transit trade; the Hankow-Canton Railway has, however, so far progressed towards completion that trains are running between Changsha and Wuchang (Hankow): the line is quite close to the City of Yochow, and the place may, in the near future, experience better times if the hope of permanent peace can only be realised.
The province of Hunan used to be to foreign commerce what Tibet has been to the explorer-a Forbidden Land-and it is only a few years ago that foreigners were stoned out of Yochow. In 1904, the people were described as showing a "friendly attitude" to all foreigners, which attitude is now well maintained. The anti-foot-binding orusade has done well in Hunan, which was once the most anti-foreign province in all China. The people are intensely patriotic, but their patriotism is rather for Hunan than for the Republic at large.
The province is rich in many forms of wealth, though the inhabitants say it consists of "three parts mountain, six water, and one arable soil." One of the main staples is rice, of which nearly a million piculs are sent out of the province to Hupeh and Kueichow in an average year. The Hunan tea sent to Hankow amounts to about six hundred thousand half-chests a year. The timber passing down from Changteh is valued officially at six million_taels a year, and is probably worth more. It is largely soft wood-merely poles. In the opinion of old residents the volume seems to be decreasing, as the rafts are, generally speaking, of smaller dimensions than in former years. This is only natural when the constant drain and the existing disregard of the rules of afforestation in China are considered.
There is also a large production of cotton. The mountain districts contain extensive fields of coal, both anthracite and bituminous; iron, also, is known to exist. Sulphur, antimony, nickel, and other minerals are even now exported, and great possibilties of development are undoubtedly to be found. Tungsten ore was lately added to the list of exports, but it is now largely shipped from Changsha rather than from Yochow.
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