ADVERTISEMENT.
Tiles and pipes.
The Company make a specialty in tiles for floors and walls from “Tangshan ” cement.
These tiles may be had in any colour, the uniformity of which is guaranteed. There is a considerable demand for these coloured tiles in red and black for churches, halls and other large buildings.
The Company also make a specialty in drain and water pipes from "Tangshan" cemeut. These pipes can be made in all sizes.
LIME.
There is a considerable trade being done by the Company in good slaked and unslaked lime for buildings in the North; the Chinese burned lime being very unreliable.
ENGINEERING.
The Company have reorganized and extended their workshops at Tongshan, including the fitting of modern and efficient plant for turning out all kinds of iron work, machinery and repairs in an expeditious and workmanlike manner. The workshops are under the constant supervision of skilled and experienced European Engineers.
A large store of all classes of material from the best makers is kept at Tongshan under the superintendence of a foreign Storekeeper.
REPORTS ON MINING PROPERTIES AND ASSAYING.
The Company, having a fully equipped laboratory at the mines, are able to give reliable assays and to undertake analytical work, and are prepared to undertake to survey and to report on mining concessions of all kinds in the Province of Chilli, and to carry out borings and other preliminary investigations.
PORT AND HARBOUR WORKS, CHIN WANG TAO.
Chin Wang Tao is an ice-free port in the Gulf of Pechili; its position being approximately Latitude 39:55, Longitude 119-52 E. of Greenwich.
Chin Wang Tao is the natural distributing centre for the north-west part of the great Province of Chihli, and in the winter season, when the Ports of Tongku and Tientsin are ice- bound, the whole import and export trade of the entire province passes through Chin Wang Tao.
Chin Wang Tao has also become a formidable rival for the enormous trade which hitherto used to be wholly shipped through Tongku and Tientsin, by virtue of the advantages which Chin Wang Tao possesses over these ports in point of saving of time and handling of cargo,
When steamers,
even of moderate draft, årrive at Taku Bar, the owners are compelled to lighter them on account of general scarcity of water on the Bar until they are sufficiently light to cross the Bar and proceed up river to Tongku and Tientsin. Four days may be reckoned upon as a good average of the time occupied in the voyage from Shanghai to Chin Wang Tao direct (say five days to Tientsin or Peking), whereas the length of the voyage via Taku to Tient-in is most uncertaiù and may extend even to ten days.
The Company owns all the land in the vicinity of the port, and have erected a sea wall or breakwater and a pier for their shipping trade.
At the breakwater there is berthing accommodation for six vessels of a minimum length of 300 feet drawing up to 18 feet of water and some smaller ships.
The pier has also berths for two ordinary coasting steamers drawing up to 15 feet of water. The Company have laid down, at their own cost, a branch line of railway connecting with the main line of the Imperial Railways of North China running from Peking to Newchwang, at Tangho Station, 3 miles distant from the Harbour Works. This banch line leads down to the steamers' berths at the breakwater and pier, and connects by a loop line with the Company's own godowns and coal yards. Passengers are thus able to step from the ship into the passen- ger car.
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