YOCHOW-SHASI
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A noteworthy feature of 1907 was the connection of Changteh by steamer during the high-water season-June to October-the resulting trade being valued at Tls. 617,000. Connection with Changteh is now maintained practically throughout the year by steamers of the river type, and tugs and lighters. Buoys and lights were established in 1907 to mark the channel across the lake. The difficulties and risks of this route are considerable, and it is probable that it will be found advisable to adopt the somewhat longer route vid Lulintan; on account of the sharp bends of the River Yuan in its lower reaches, specially adapted steamers will probably have to be used. The question of making Changteh an open port'
was considered in 1906 and again taken up in the spring of 1915, and Chinese officials visited the place to enquire into the conditions, but it still remains open only to vessels under Inland Water Steam Navigation rules. In 1920, a new organization for the technical control of the Middle Yangtsze Aids to Navigation and channels was instituted by the Customs.
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The Standard Oil Company of New York has recently established an oil installa- tion at a point about two miles below the Settlement. It has erected two tanks and contemplates erecting four more. The first oil tanker direct from California arrived here during the high water season of 1926. This installation will be the centre of distribution for the upper Yangtsze and the "Lake Ports," such as Changteh, Yiyang and Tsingshih. Although all oil was withdrawn from the tanks in May, 1927, owing to the then disturbed conditions, the use of the tanks has been resumed since June, 1928.
DIRECTORY
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &
Sons, Ltd.)-Agent at Chengling (port
of Yochow)
Yang Yan Poo, agent
Wong Sui Che, shipping clerk
關 州岳
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Revenue Department
Assistant-in-charge-Chiao Ju Yung
Tidewaiters — O. K. Miao, Chen Chih
En, Th. L. Yih & Chang Veng Ping
Marine Department
Assist. River Inspector-W. D. Fraser River Inspectors-J. A. Brown and
E. H. Sexton
司公運轉萍冶漢
HAN YEH PING TRANSPORTATION Co.
Yang Peh Ying, agent
Tah Chün-ching, shipping clerk
和怡
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JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD.
Cheng Sung Tsun, agent
司公清日
NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA (Japan-China
Steamship Co.)
會初復美大 Ta me fuh jso wei
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REFORMED CHURCH MISSION Yochow
City; Tel. Ad; Allenbarth
** Mei foo
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
SHASI
市沙
Sha-si
Shasi (the "inarket on the sands") is one of the ports opened to foreign trade under the Japanese Treaty of 1895, the official declaration of the opening being dated the 1st October, 1896. The port is about 85 miles below Ichang and is situated at the crossing point of two most important routes of commerce in Central China, namely, from east to west and from north to south and vice versa. It is reclaimed from the river and the sea by a magnificent system of dykes and canals, and is
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