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TIENTSIN
for manufacture. The exports include coal, wool (from Kokonor, Kansuh, etc.), bristles, straw braid, goat skins, furs, wine, etc. The export trade is a creation only soine 15 or 20 years old, and is largely due to foreign initiative. Wool cleaning and braid and bristle sorting are the chief industries in the foreign hongs except those of the Russians, who are exclusively engaged in the transit of tea. The imports are of the usual miscellaneous nature: arms, tea for the Desert and Siberia, mineral oil, matches, and needles figure next to piece-goods. The fine arts are unknown to the Tientsinese except in the shape of cleverly-made mud-figures; these are painted and make really admirable statuettes, but are difficult to carry away, being remarkably brittle.
Tientsin is the principal sea outlet for the entire trade of the provinces of Chihli, Shansi, Shensi, Kansuh, and part of Honan, with a population not far short of 100,000,000. Following are the comparative trade statistics for the years 1918, 1919- and 1920:-
Imports :-
Foreign (net) Native (net)
Exports
...
...
1918
1919
1920
Hk. Tls. 73,808,930 Hk. Tls. 85,348,380 Hk. Tls. 89,201,524
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28,149,658 51,180,055
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32,877,521 71,550,033
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39,692,488. 44,588,530
Value of trade of Port... Hk. Tls. 153,138,643 Hk.Tls. 189,77,934 Hk.Tls. 173,482,542.
精美 Mei-ching
DIRECTORY
AMERICAN MACHINERY and EXPORT CO.
Mining and Engineering Equipment and
General Import and Export-Teleph.
1328; Tel. Ad: Meiching
E. K. Lowry, president, manager
L. Dobbins, vice-pres. and mgr.,
San Francisco
H. K. Chang, assist. manager
Export Dept.
C. B. Thiess
H. C. Grautz
McCarrell H. Leiper
W. L. Hodges, consulting engineer G. O. Haviland, accountant
M. A. Daily, stenographer
Agencies
China Mail Steamship Co. Westchester Fire Insurance Co. (Fire
and Marine Insce.)
C. S. Johnson & Son (Paints, Wood
Dyes, Wax and Auto Products)
J. H. Channon Mfg., Co. (Boiler and Machine Shop Tools, Railway Track Tools)
Easton Car & Const. Co. (Railway Cars, Special Cars, Portable and Perma- nent Track)
Geo. Haiss Mfg. Co. (Wagon Loaders,
Coal Screens and Hoists)
C. W. Hunt Co. (Electric Platform Trucks and Tractors, Coal Handling Machinery)
Industrial Works (Locomotive and Gantry Cranes, Pile Drivers, R'ly. Transfer Tables)
Kempsmith Mfg. Co. (Milling Ma-
chines)
N. Y. Áir Brake Co. (Railway [Air
Brake Equipment)
Safety Car Heating and Lighting Co.
(Railway Car Heating and Lighting Equipment)
昌慎 Sun Chong
ANDERSEN, MEYER & Co., LTD., General
Merchants, Engineers and Contractors
-Telephs. 2620 and 3793, Private Switch
to all depts.; Tel. Ad : Danica
L. Kampf, manager
Engineering Dept.
H. March, mgr.
G. Kearney Thos. N. Miller Textile Dept.
A. W. Turner
T. M. Lee
IT M.
Mrs. M. Kearney
N. L. Rashin T. F. Chen
Miss L. M. Hansen
D. F. Maguire T. A. Tucker Electrical Dept.
R. E. Gilleland Building Supplies Dept.
G. B. Jurden
G. W. Sherman
Import Dept.
E. A. Dahlin Insurance Dept. F. G. Brendon Traffic Dept.
W. V. Langdon Accounting Dept. V. Reinhardt
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Miss F. Fingereth
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