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The previous record years for the three marts were respectively, 1902, 1903, andˇ 1898; and the total gain in each case, as made in 1904, appears thus :--
Mengizů Pengy leh Ssumac
The
percentages
Gain over 1903.
Per cent.
Gain over record
year.
Per cent.
4,811,721
369,851
62,216
67.0
3,371,770
43.5
21.8 30-0
369,851
5,264
21.5 2.0
of the total trade for the three marts were :--
Mengtaŭ
T'engyüeh
ŭmao..
:::
1904.
1903,
Per cent.
Per cent.
82
77-0
16 2
20.5
2.5
Thus although there has been an advance at Tengyüeh and to some extent at Ssumao, it is to Mengtzŭ that is mainly due the very considerable increase in the total trade of Yünnan.
Tables are appended showing the quantities of the principal imports and exports of the three marts, and the number of pack-animals employed at Mengtzŭ and at T'engyueh. The trade at Tengyüeh is entirely with Burmah; that at Mengtzů is, in effect, still mainly with Hong Kong. I am not yet in possession of the figures necessary to discriminate the latter from Tongking trade, but I am able to give the distribution of the trade at Ssumao.
As all three marts are rather points of departure for the transit trade than centres of local distribution, it will be useful to compare the transit returns for 1904, 1903, and the respective record years:-
1924,
1903.
Record Year.
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The Ssumao totals :-
1904.
1903.
1898.
Yünnan
138,617
152,486
177,921
Kueichow
630
Sauci'uan
13,485
10,248
7,055
Kiangsu
103
Hunan Kiangsi Chib-li
277
79
321
178
150
126
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Details of the T'engyüeh transit pass "trade for 1904 are not yet to hand; at Saumao raw cotton accounted for 165,269 taels out of the total, deer horns alone attaining besides to the dignity of five figures (13,989 taels). The Mengtzů returns for 1904 will be more usefully compared with the 1902 than with the 1903 returns,
The principal article sent into the interior under transit pass from Mengtzů as from T'engyüeh is cotton yarn. The figures for 1904 were :-
Pienis.
Taels.
Indian .. Japanese
93,864
3,360,918
1,913
76,219
Tongking
2,651
97,160
Total
98,428
3,534,297
For 1902:-
Indian Japanese Tongking
Total
Piculs.
Taels.
84,517
2,390,065
2,014
70,013
670
19,184
87,201
2,479,262
Mengtză Tengytich Ssumao
4,480,814 1,284,753 197,630
2,775,005 1,202,907 163.593
3,234,230 1,202,907 185,422
It will be seen that while the T'engyüeh transit trade has remained almost stationary, the transit trade of Mengtzů shows an advance of 1,250,000 taels on the returns of the best year of record, 1902.
The Mongtzů totals were thus divided among the provinces served :-----
While Japanese yarn is thus practically stationary, Tongking yarn has quadrupled. The increase in Indian yarn is 40 per cent., but this represents an advance of nearly 1,000,000 taels, as against the 78,000 taels in the French article.
Next in importance, but longo intervallo, comes prepared tobacco, the figures for which are:--
1904 1902
Piculs.
Tacls,
6.717 8,449
209,863 206,795
Yunnan
Kueichow
Souch'uan
The T'engyüch totals :--
Yünbau..
Kueichow
Ssuch'uan
1904.
1903.
1902.
3,684,183 765,539
2,244,477 415,700
2,725,488 411,478
31,092
134,828
97,314
Then, in that order of value, native cloth (Nankeens), cotton lastings, plain grey shirtings, long ells, coffin wood, paper, T-cloths, aniline dyes, kerosene oil, cotton Italians, Japanese umbrellas, cuttle fish, velvets, medicines, sandalwood.
The figures are :—
1904.
1902.
Taels.
Taeis.
Native cloth
127,354
112,406
1904.
1903.
Cotton lastings
63,481
61,408
Plain grey shirtings
68,066
46,999
Long ells
58,406
23,198
Cuffin wood
49,685
49,190
939,103 44,203
834,162
Paper (first quality)
41,876
16,631
28.194
T-cloths (32 and 36)
26,681
18,938
301,447
340,351
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