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premises occupied by the Native agents of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., and a number of newly-erected Chinese houses were burnt by the mob, Kerosene oil being used to feed the conflagration, and the Foreign residents were driven out of the port, narrowly escaping with their lives. The Custom House was re-opened on the 1st July of the same year. In August, 1898, an area of 3,800 Chinese feet in length, by 800 to 1,200 in breadth, lying along the river side below the town, was assigned to Japan as a Japanese concession. The British Consulate was withdrawn in January, 1899, British interests being placed under the care of the Consul at Ichang. The estimated value of the trade of the port coming under the cognizance of the Foreign Customs was in 1900 estimated at Tls. 350,759, against Tls. 247,427 in 1899. The bulk of the carrying trade is however carried on by junks, which do not come under the control of the Foreign Customs.
記瑞 Shui Chi
DIRECTORY
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., Merchants
Rudolf Gericke
Agencies
Melchers & Co.'s N. German Lloyd
steamer "Mei Yu
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Qwei Chou Anglo-French Mining
Concession
古太 Tai K:
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants
Li Chou Chen, agent
和怡 E-Wo
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JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
Wu Hung Yuan, agent
*** Tung-feh Yang-hong 肥東本日大
MUSEUM ANd Store-Japanese
M. Ushijima, manager
Y. Shinohara
R. Tōyama
局沙商招 Chui Shang Sha Cru
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAV. Co.
Hsieh Chen, manager
Hsu Chih Sen, clerk
DARSE★ Ta-pan Shang-lun Kung-sze
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA
Chu Wei Chen, agent
Fu Pien Hsien, clerk
ICHANG
昌宜 I-cháng
Is one of the four ports opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1877, in accordance with clause 1, section 3, of the Chefoo Convention.
Ichang is situated in lat. 30° 44′ 25′′ N., long. 111° 18′ 34′′ E., on the left bank of the river Yangtsze, about 393 miles above Hankow, and some ten miles below the entrance to the great Ichang gorge. The navigation of the river to this port is com- paratively easy for vessels of light draught, but great care is necessary for all vessels when in the neighbourhood of Sunday Island, owing to the shifting sand banks. The anchorage is off 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 has increased in importance since the open- ing 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
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