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SEOUL CHEMULPO

H. G. English, supt. electrician E. Piehl, superintendent track Geo. Ewing, foreman

C. H. Stone,

J. Nawa,

do.

do.

Y. Giobu, car-house foreman

SEOUL PRESS

J. W. Hodge

STATION HOTEL

W. H. Emberley, proprietor

TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL Corean

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Superintendent-H. J. Mühlensteth

WUNSCH, R. M.D., Physician to the Imperial

Household

CHEMULPO

Port of JENCHUAN, called also JINSEN and INCHIUN

浦物濟 Che-mul-po

This port, known to the Japanese as Jinsen, is situated in lat. 37 deg. 28 min. 30 sec. N. and long. 126 deg. 37 min. E., at the entrance to the Salée river, an embouchure of the Han-kang close to and immediately east of Rose island, on the west coast of Corea, in the metropolitan province of Kiung-kei. The British Consul in his report for 1896 says:-"Chemulpo, which thirteen years ago was a collection of fifteen miserable huts, is now a large and flourishing centre of trade, with broad metalled roads, good substantial buildings, and a foreign population of some 6,000 or 7,000, mostly Japaneso and Chinese. The Chinese and Japanese settlements are fully occupied, and the price of land in the general foreign settlement has risen to almost fabulous rates." There is a Municipal Council, composed of the Foreign Consuls, one Corean official, and three representatives of the landholders. The outer anchorage is accessible to ships of all sizes, and the inner one to coasting vessels and steamers ordinarily employed in the local trade. The river is navigable for vessels not drawing over 10 feet up to Mapu; but seeing that at certain seasons there are a few places where the fall in the river is very considerable, owing to the existence of sand banks, it is desirable that river steamers, intended to run regularly, should not draw over six feet, An overland telegraph line from China to this port and the city of Seoul was opened to traffic in November, 1885, and since September, 1899, a railway line runs between Chemulpo and Seoul. The climate is healthy and may be compared to that of Chefoo. The foreign population in 1900 was 5,564 (including 4,215 Japanese and 1,263 Chinese) the natives were estimated at 8,370.

The port was opened to Japanese trade on the 1st January, 1883, and to foreign trade on the 16th June of the same year. The value of the imports from foreign countries in 1900 was 86,888,421, and that of the exports to foreign countries $4,238,150, as compared with 86,289,8162 imports and $1,614,56 exports in 1899. The total value of the trade of the port in 1900 was $12,560,215, as compared with $8,870,954 in 1899.

The sub-prefectural town of Jenchuan is situated ten li distant from the port.

DIRECTORY

CHAMBER OF Commerce (Japanese)

Chairman-Y. Kaku

Vice-Chairman- K. Shigeno Chief Secretary-C. Nakamura

CHEMULPO CLUB

President-H. Goffe

Hon. Secretary-E. Laporte Hon. Treasurer-C. Lührs

CHINESE MERCHANTS

I Tai & Co. Kin Shin Tong Say Shin Chung Shuan Shin Tai Si Kun Shun Tick Hing & Co. Tien Wha Chan

Tung Shun Tai Yee Sung Shin Yu Fộng Te Yu Shin Jen Yung Lai Shin

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