YUENSAN (GENSAN).
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main street of some ten to twelve feet in width winds through from end to end, and into this open numerous narrow and crooked alleys." Near each end of the town is an open space where a market, chiefly for agricultural produce, is held about six times a month. The houses are mean and dirty, and the town presents a poverty- stricken appearance. The harbour is a good one, being spacious, easy of access, well sheltered, with excellent holding ground, and convenient depth of water. January is the coldest month, and one corner of the harbour-that before the native town-is some- times frozen over, but the part used by shipping is never covered with ice of such a thickness as to interfere with navigation. The Japanese have a nice clean looking Settlement, consisting of about fifty houses built in semi-European style and a really fine Consulate, of foreign design, containing at least forty rooms and offices. A Chi- nese Consul also resides here, and a tract of land has been selected for a Chinese Settlement contiguous to the Japanese Settlement. The country around Yuensan is under cultivation, and the soil is very rich. Within a short distance of the port are mines producing copper and other minerals, and gold is found amongst the neighbouring mountains. The cattle at this port, as nearly all over the country, are very fine and plentiful, and can be bought at very low rates; they are used as beasts of burden and for agricultural purposes.
The trade is carried on by a tri-weekly Nippon Yusen steamer from Nagasaki and Vladivostock, occasional steamers from Shanghai, and schooners and junks from Japan. The net value of the trade in 1886 was $965,403, as compared with $564,053 in 1885. The exports consist chiefly of hides, beans, gold-dust, dried fish, and skins. The imports consist chiefly of cotton and woollen manufactured goods and dyes.
DIRECTORY.
Japanese Consulate.
S. Watanabe, vice consul
Y. Oku, chancelier
A. Suzuki, do. and interpreter
8. Iwamatsu, do.
K. Yoshizoye, do. and postmaster
8. Nakamura, do. and Corean interpreter
K. Kurodaki, do.
M. Oishi,
do,
Japanese Consular Police.
K. Kurotaki, inspector
S. Kand, chief constable
Eight constables
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CHINESE CONSULATE.
Woo Chung Yen, consul
Fung Taze Lin, accountant
Pak Hung Yung, Corean interpreter
HIS COBEAN Majesty's CUSTOMS.
E. F. Creagh, acting commissioner J. H. Fougerat, assistant
A. Harada, interpreter
Kuan Chong-in, clerk
Ko Yung-hun, do.
J. Osaki, medical officer
J. Knott, examiner
E. P. Mannheimer, J. Hintze, tide waiters
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
S. Okumura, president
J. Kumada, clerk
JAPANESE HOSPITAL.
J. Osaki, physician
U. Sago, accountant and interpreter
S. Nakao, apothecary
TRADERS' REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE.
C. Ashihama, representative
C. Kumada, clerk