SANTUAO
Santuao was voluntarily opened to foreign trade by the Chinese Government on the 8th May, 1899. The port includes the whole of the magnificent Santu Inlet, which is situated some 70 miles north of Foochow. The foreign settlement is on the island of Santu in the centre of the inlet. The harbour is certainly one of the finest on the China coast: the approaches to it are well-defined, and vessels of the largest size may enter at any time, regardless of the state of tide. H.M.S. Waterwitch surveyed the whole of the inlet in 1899, and an Admiralty chart has been published. A telegraph cable was successfully laid from the mainland to the Settlement in July, 1905, and communication established with all China ports.
The port of Santuao serves important tea districts. Much of the tea exported from Foochow to Europe is first shipped from Santuao; and there is a growing demand in North China for certain varieties grown in the neighbourhood. No build- ing operations worth mentioning have been undertaken at the port, and no modern methods have as yet been introduced in the manufacture of the principal local pro- ducts as paper and pottery, though excellent raw material is close at hand, especially extensive deposits of kaolin capable of yielding far superior pottery than is now brought on the market from this district. The iron mines in the districts of Kutien, Fuan, and Siapu, where the deposits were reported in 1918 to be of a promising nature, have not yet been properly exploited, and so far no smelting works at Santuao, as then anticipated, have been erected, so that a regular trade in this valuable mineral does not yet exist here. The present value of unmanufactured iron on the local market is about $4 a picul. The chief towns of the district are Funing, Fu-an, Ningte, and Shouning. There is a prosperous and increasing junk-trade, and regular steamship communication with the provincial capital. The net value of the trade of the port for 1919, coming under the control of the Maritime Customs, was Hk. Tls. 2,318,874, as compared with Hk. Tls. 1,739,972 for 1918, Hk. Tls. 2,502,562 for 1917, Hk. Tls. 2,927,460 for 1916, and Hk. Tls. 4,028,031 for 1915.
DIRECTORY
亞細
細亞
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (SOUTH CHINA),
LTD., THE-Tel. Ad: Petrosilex
官事領總利大義大
Tai I-tai-li Chung-ling-sz-kún
CONSULATE-ITALY
Consul-General (residing in Canton)
Fu-hai-Kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner-P. B. de Rautenfeld Assistant-Leung Im
Examiner E. M. Lundberg
Tidewaiters-J. D. Spencer, A. S.
Coppin
祥天 Tieng-siong
DODWELL & Co., LTD., Merchants
和英
ODELL & Co., Merchants
Mei Chi-chao, agent
Steamers "Kongmun" and "Chanpo"
局郵澳都三
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
(N.B.-Letters should be addressed: Santuao via Foochow)
竿
美
STANDARD OIL Co., OF NEW YORK
H. W. Livingston, manager (Foochow)
Hsü Baik King, agent
司公船輪安太
TAI ON STEAMSHIP CO.
Wong Tai Wo, manager
TELEGRAPHS, CHINESE
Y. D. Wei, manager