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ICHANG

when in the neighbourhood of Sunday Island, owing to the shifting sand banks. The anchorage off is the left bank, opposite the foreign residences, and is good, except in freshets, when the anchors should be sighted every two or three days. The port is the centre of a hilly country, the productions of which are rice in the valleys, cotton on the higher grounds, winter wheat, barley, and also the tungtzu trees, from which the ordinary wood oil is obtained by pressing the nuts gathered from the trees. In the sheltered valleys, amongst the mountain ranges west of the city, oranges, lemons, pomelos, pears, plums, and a very superior quality of persimmons are grown and find a ready market in the city and at Shasi. Ichang continues to increase in importance since the opening of Chungking. All cargo for the latter port is landed here and transferred to chartered junks. In the same way cargo brought down in chartered junks from Chungking and intended for the lower river and coast ports is shipped here on river steamers, which make regular voyages to and from Hankow,

Native opium is largely grown from here westwards, and is increasing in quantity and improving in quality. The climate of Ichang is drier than that of the lower river ports-summers very warm, winters dry and pleasant. The native population is estimated at about 35,000. The foreign residents are few in number, educated native agents representing the four or five foreign hongs doing business here. Fine new Consular and Customs buildings have recently been erected and have improved the appearance of the setttlement very much.

The net value of the trade of the port, excluding transhipment cargo, was in 1896 Tls. 2,210,301 and in 1895 Tls. 1,496,031. The foreign imports amounted to Tls. 899,558.

AMERICAN CHURCH MISSION

Rev. H. C. Collins, M.D.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

Yew Cheong Wong

Agencies

DIRECTORY

China Navigation Company, Limited

Union Insurance Society of Canton

會地內

CHINA INLAND MISSION: Tel. Ad. Inland

Rev. Geo. Hunter, M.A.

W. Gemmell

J. R. Bruce

CHINA MERCHANTS STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

Chin Yung, inanager

司公喙保川利

CHUNGKING TRANSPORT COMpany, Ld.

Archd. J. Little, manager

Liu Chun Ching, local manager

CHURCH of Scotland MISSION

Rev. Thos. R. Kearney

David Rankine, M.A., M.B., C.M. Miss E. Smith

Miss M. E. Moore, B.A.

Miss C. G. Fraser

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CONSULATES

Great BriTAIN

Consul-W. Holland

Constable J. A. Reynolds

JAPAN

門衙事頜本日大

Consul-H. Eitaki, resdg. at Shasi

門衙國美大

@ Ta-me-kwoh ya-men

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consul-Jacob T. Child (Hankow)

CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

Dr. and Mrs. Logan

WE I-chang-kwan CUSTOMS-IMperial MarITIME

Assistant-in-charge W. R. McD. Parr Assistant-R. F. Wrench

Do. —R. L. C. d'Anjou

Med. Officer--D. Rankine, M.A., M.B., C.M. Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor-

W. Nelson Lovatt

Acting Boat Officer-H. A. Farrell Examiner-C. H. Erskine

Asst. Examrs-G. Kopp, G. Houlston Tidewaiters-F. J. Rowsell, T. J.

Edwards, A. Gray

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants

C. Him-shan, agent

Agencies

Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited Canton Insurance Office, Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.

Lih-tel

LITTLE & Co., ARCHD., Merchants

Arch. Little (Chungking)

Liu Chun Ching

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