KOBE-HYOGO
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Kobe's excellent railway communications both north and south have naturally tended to centralise trade at this fast rising port.
In 1896 the values of the different classes of Imports were :-
Beans, Peas and Pulse
Cotton, Raw
Cotton Yarn ...
Cotton Piece Goods
...
...
...
Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals Kerusine Oil
Machinery, Watches, Arms, &c.
"
Spinning
The values of the principal
Camphor
...
Cotton Yarn...
$ 2,287,252 Metals and Manufactures of
$ 6,585,170
26,195,325
Oil Cakes
2,445,203
4,421,761 Rice
2,789,819
5,230,313 Sugar
4,419,250
2,053,262 Wool and Woollen Manufactures 8,084,380 3,050,959 Sundries...
8,173,052
$82,468,580
articles of Export in the same year were as follows :--
4,368,401
2,364,433 Total Imports Foreign Goods
...
1,093,306 Rice...
3,109,551 Straw-plaits...
2,165,477 Tea
Grain Beverages, and Provns.
Matches
...
Mats for Floor
Metals (chiefly Copper)
4,848,988 Textile Fabrics and Clothing 2,976,875 Sundries
3,549,829
1,163,717 Total Exports Native Goods
...$ 5,730,810
1,201,282
2,213,373
3,760,548
8,051,707
$39,865,463
Porcelain and Earthenware
The quantity of tea shipped from Kobe-Hyogo during the season 1896-1897 was 15.192,435 lbs. Practically the whole of this went to the United States of America and Canada.
The following table shows the rapid increase of the foreign trade of the port :-
Imports
Exports Total
Imports
1891 25,700,501
21,733,718
47,434,219 1894
56,910,503
Exports 29,438,113
Total
86,348,616
1892 36,220,175
22,345,665
58,565,840 | 1895
63,098,427
38,307,955
101,406,382
1893 41,234,276 24,968,974
66,263,250 | 1896
82,408,580 39,865,463 122,334,043
DIRECTORY
ABELL & RALSTON, Bill and Bullion Brokers
J. C. Abell
J. Ralston
ABRAHAM & Co., L. D.-90
L. D. Abraham
V. E. Abraham
P. H. McKay
J. W. Ottoson
AGAREG & Co., Merchants-39, Concession
A. M. L. Agabeg
John Williams
Fred. Stone
Agency
Karatzu Coal Mine
ABRENS & Co., H., Nachfolger, Merchs.-10
E. Wismer (Yokohama)
A. Hofmann,
M. Sürth
F. Popert
F. Kronenberg
Agencies
do.
Norddeutscher Lloyd Steam Nav. Co. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society London Assurance Corporation
AMERICAN TRADING CO.-17
E. A. Sargent, agent
F. P. Ball, sub-agent
P. E. Webb
E. J. Marshall L. C. Putnam
G. Braess
R. Schofield
C. R. Morse
N. J. Sargent
Agencies
Yangtsze Insurance Association Law Union & Crown Life & Fire Insce.
AQUARIUS COMPANY, Manufacturers of
Aerated Waters-36, Division Street Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co., agents
AVERILL & Co., Merchants, Ohno
F. H. Olmsted
F. H. Loring
Baker, EDWIN, Baptist Preacher, 117,
Gokentei, Himeji, Harima Kuni
BAVIER & Co., Merchants-46
E. de Bavier (absent) J. H. Jewett, do.
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