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The Yangtsze is navigable for steamers from Ichang, not only to Chungking, but as far as Sui-fu, where the Min river joins the Yangtsze, and during high water in summer the Min river is also navigable as far as Kiating. By the Japanese Treaty of 1894, the right of steam navigation to Chungking was secured, and in the spring of 1898 the voyage was successfully accomplished by Mr. A. Little, with the small steamer Leechuen, which, however, being of limited power, had to be tracked up the rapids in the same way as junks. On 6th May, 1900, the two light-draught British gunboats Woodcock and Woodlark arrived from Ichang, having left that port on 5th April. The return journey occupied 25 steaming hours. On 12th June, the Yangtze Trading Company's steamer, the Pioneer, commenced her maiden voyage and arrived at Chungking on 20th June. This steamer was afterwards purchased by the British Government. Freight rates by junk have enormously increased in recent years. The s.s. Loongmow, of about 1,000 tons gross tonnage, specially built for the Ichang- Chungking run, made her appearance in June, 1920, and on more than one occasion, steaming by daylight only, has completed in less than six days the round trip to Ichang. With the present accurate surveying of the Upper Yangtsze and the aids to navigation which have been installed, as well as the measures which are now being taken to organise a reliable pilotage service, the voyage from Ichang to this port by steamer is no longer the gambling proposition which it formerly used to be considered. It is now possible with suitable craft and the exercise of sufficient dis- crimination in the selection of crew and pilots for steamers to navigate the Upper River for eight months of the year. Fifty-four steamers and motor vessels ply above Ichang.
DIRECTORY
AMERICAN-CHINESE DRUG Co.-Codes:
A.B.C., Western Union and Bentley's
J. H. McCartney, managing director
T⭑* Mei-fung-ying-hong 行銀豐美
AMERICAN ORIENTAL BANK OF SZECHUEN
-Tel. Ad: Amorbankch
H. J. Kang, manager
H. C. Lee, assist. do
司公油火亞細亞商英
Ying-shang-a-si-a-huo-yu-kung-sz
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),
LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric
P. J. Wilson, manager
V. P. Clarke (at Hankow)
C. F. Gould
do.
P. F. Mason, installation manager
利安
An-lee
ARNHOLD & Co., LTD., Import and Export Merchants- Tel. Ad: Harchi; Codes:
Bentley's and Comm. Tel. and Cable
Code
L. A. Anderson, manager
司公限有理白
BARRY & DODWELL, LTD. Tel. Ad:
Enterprise
B. M. Barry, managing director
H. W. Lester, director (Shanghai).
W. J. Moyhing
Agencies
Commercial Union Assur. Co., Ld. Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld.
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Canton Insurance Office, Ld. Indo-China S. N. Co., Ld.
Sun Life Insurance Co. of Canada
司公煙紙美英
DAH**Tsze-yen-kon-sze
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),
LTD.
司公限有碱洋門內卜商英
Ying-shang-po-na-men-yang-kien-yu-hsien kung-sz
BRUNNER, MOND & Co. (CHINA), LTD., Im-
porters of Alkalis and Commercial and
Industrial Chemicals-Tel. Ad: Alkali
(For Agencies, see Shanghai section)
古太 Tai-koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &
Sons, Ltd.)
A. V. T. Dean, signs per pro.
Agency
China Navigation Co., Ld.
局楡商招
Chau-shang-yu-chu
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAV. Co.