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YOKOHAMA

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The width of the entrance is 00 feet 8 inches at the top and 45 feet 11 inches at the bottom. The depth is 35 feet 1 inch on the inside, and 31 feet 2 inches on the sill. The depth of water on the blocks is 27 feet 2 inches at spring tides, 26 feet 2 inches at ordinary springs, and 19 feet 8 inches at low water of spring tides. This is the smaller or No. 2 Dock of the Company. The No. 1 Dock, completed at the end of 1898, is 478 ft. 10 in. on the blocks and has a depth inside of 36 ft. 3 in. and on the sill of 34 ft. 1 in., the depth of water on the blocks being 28 ft. 10 in. at springs, 27 ft. 11 in. at ordinary springs, and 21 ft. 4 in. at low water of springs. Yokohama is well supplied with hotels. There are four English daily papers published in the port namely, the Japan Gazette, Japan Herald, Japan Daily Mail, and Japan Daily Advertiser, and several weeklies.

The Japanese population of Yokohama numbered, on the 31st December, 1897, 188,455. The number of foreign residents exclusive of Chinese was 2,096, of whom 869 were British. The Chinese population was returned at 2,015,

In 1898 the values of the different classes of Imports were :--- Beverages and Provisions .....

Yen 2,818,705 Metals and Manufactures of

10,683,235

Cotton, Raw....

5,322,372

Rice........

14,748,780

Cotton Yarn.

5,679,092

Steam Vessels

5,023,194

Cotton Piece Goods

6,341,161

Sugar

14,449,715

Drugs, Medicines & Chemicals

4,492,650

Dyes and Paints

3,223,701

Wool and Woollen Manufres Sundries

7,890,372

19,020,966

Kerosine Oil...

3,016,063

Machinery, Arms, &c.

8,179,458 Total Imports Foreign Goods Yen 110,889,464 The values of the principal articles of Export in the same year were as follows:- Grain, Beverages, and Provns. Yen 1,894,376 Tea...

Metals (mostly copper)

Silk and Cocoons..

Silk Piece Goods.

3,543,541 44,174,537

Sundries

Yen 5,389,381

8,581,698

16,191,450 Total Exports Native Goods Yen 79,774,983 The value of the Imports in 1897 was Yen 86,790,195, and of the Exports in same year Yen 90,368,531. The total export of raw silk during the season from 1st July, 1898, to same date 1899 was 50,661 bales. The total export for the previous year was 56,783 bales. The export of tea during the season 1st May, 1898, to same date 1899 was 23,515,888 lbs., nearly all for America. The export during the previous season was 27,206,290 lbs.

DIRECTORY

For Government Departments see under G.

ADET. CAMPREDON & Co.--95

G. Adet (absent)

E. Adet

G. Campredon

AHRENS & Co., H. NACHF., Merchants-29

E. Wismer

M Sürth

A. Hofmann (Kobe)

A Harmssen

W. Schmaedecke

L. Temme

E. Kroneck

G. Erich

AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, 61, Main

Street: Tel. Ad. Pocahontas

E. J. Parrish, manager

AMERICAN TRADING COMPANY-28; P. O.

Box 28

Jas. R. Morse, president (New York Trenor L. Park, vice-presidt., do.

W. H. Stevens, treasurer,

A. O. Jennings, secretary,

do.

do.

H. Clare

Agencies

Norddeutscher Lloyd

London Assurance Corporation

ALLCOCK, GEO. H., Silk Inspector-33.

ALLMACHER, F., Bicycle Repairer 108

Geo, M. Woolsey, sub-agent

J. Hamilton Boag, accountant A. G. Leppere

D. H. Blake

E. I. Dyer, B.S., engineer

E. M. Sutliff, assistant do.

L. C. Putnam

Rud. Witschi

N. B. Morton

P. H. Wootton L. E. McChesney J. H. Williams

ANDERSON, B. M., "The Phonograph "—110