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HANKOW-YOCHOW
Young Brothers Trading Co., Ex- porters of Hankow China Wood Oil and other Szechuen Products, Importers and Commission Agents-Young Bros. Banking Corporation Building, Kiang- han Road (1st floor), S.A.D. 3; Telephs. 22421 (general), 22424 (manager), 22425 (installation); Cable Ad: Yangbrosco; Codes: Acme, Bentley's and Private. Branches at Wanhsien, Chungking, Changteh, Ichang, Tsingshih and, throughout Szechuen Province
T. S. Yang, managing director. C. C. Yang, manager
YUNG TAI & Co., General Drapers
Gentlemen's Outfitters and Milliners-
57, Sankiao St., S.A.D. 2
T. P. Yang, manager
今年青教督基口漢
Hankow Chitu chiao Ch'ing nien hui
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HANKOW-Cable Ad: Flamingo; Codes: Missions and C.I.M.
ZENITH STUDIO, Portraiture, Enlarg-
ing, Developing and Printing-217, Kiang Han Road, S.A.D. 3, Branch Office: Kuling Street, Kuling, Kiangsi
YOCHOW
Yochow, with a population of some 500,000 is situated in latitude 29° 26′ 29" N. aud longitude 113° 11:6 E. at the outlet of the Tungting Lake. Past it ebbs and flows practically the whole of the trade of Hunan, which, however, adds little to the pros- perity of the place, as it simply passes by after having paid its dues and duties. The city being the gateway of the province holds a very strategic position from a military point of view and consequently has always been a bone of contention among the warring factions, whenever there is internicine strife in this centre. The opening of Changsha in July, 1904, took away much of Yochow's transit trade. The recently- completed Canton-Hankow Railway passes through Yoehow.
The province of Hunan used to be to foreign commerce what Tibet has been to the explorer-a Forbidden Land-and it is only two decades 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 in spite of the recent activities of the extremists in this province.
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." The staple exports are rice, raw cotton, rainie, lotus nuts, vegetable tallow and wood oil. In past years much rice was allowed to leave the province, with the result that the Hunan people themselves have at times suffered acutely from rice famnine.
Steam launches and steamers run through from Hankow to Changsha with cargo and passengers, under river passes; and from Yochow to inland places known as the "Lake Ports" under Inland Waters Steam Navigation Rules-principally to Chiangteh- Yiyang and Tsingshih. The business is increasing, more particularly, with the last, mentioned place.
The city of Yochow is perched on a bluff in a very picturesque way. Its site is however, not adapted for transit trade, and it offers no shelter for small craft. The port has, therefore, been opened at Chengling, five miles to the north and only a mile from the Yangtsze, where a small creek provides the needed shelter for eargo-boats and other vessels, though the steamer anchorage is bad, being fully exposed to the frequent northerly gales, while the bottom affords bad holding ground. Here the Chinese Government has set aside a place for a cosmopolitan settlement, for which they have provided roads, police, etc.; the site contains level ground for business purposes, well raised, but not too high above flood limits, while higher ground gives good and healthy sites for foreign houses. Work on the formation of the Settlement