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town is now in the enjoyment of an excellent water supply, large Waterworks having been completed in 1887. The harbour is much exposed, but two breakwaters, of an aggregate length of 12,000 feet, have been built and are so projected as to practically enclose the whole of the anchorage, leaving an entrance 650 feet wide between these extremities. There is a pier 2,000 feet long at which vessels may load or discharge. A graving dock was opened on the 26th April, 1897. It is built of large blocks of granite and is 351 feet on the blocks, its length from the outside of the entrance to the head is 419 feet 10 inches and from the outside caisson to the head 400 feet 3 inches. The width of the entrance is 60 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, 1902, 314,333; at the end of 1900 the number was below 200,000. The number of foreign residents, exclusive of Chinese, was 2,447, of whom 1,089 were British; 527 Americans; 270 Germans, and 165 French. The Chinese population was returned at 3,800.
In 1903 the values of the different classes of Imports were :- Arms, Munitions, Clocks, &c. Yen 7,015,238
Kerosine Oil
2,822,683 Metals, and Manufactures of... 13,054,233 Paper and Stationery
Beverages and Provisions......
7,025,382
Clothing and Accessories
768,369
2,452,055
Cotton, Raw...
6,129,559
Rice
19,811,180
Cotton and Silk Piece Goods..
6,695,613
Sugar.
10,986,987
Drugs, Medicines & Chemicals
2,671,821
Wool and Woollen Manuf'res... 8,411,383
Dyes and Paints
1,463,994
Sundries
Grains and Seeds
3,478,575
Indigo
2,121,599
15,970,297
Total Imports Yen 110,878,968
Yen 9,050,873
Metals (mostly copper)
Silk (Raw)...
Silk Piece Goods.
7,390,208 Sundries
74,327,602 38,205,679
13,560,234
The values of the principal articles of Export in the same year were as follows: Grain, Beverages, and Provns. Yen 4,054,842 Tea....
Total Exports Yen 146,580,438
The above figures represent the total imports and exports of both foreign and native goods. The export of tea during 1903 amounted to 27,007,675 lbs. Nearly all the tea exported goes to America.
DIRECTORY
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ABENHEIM BROS., successors to Bruhl Fréres, New York, London, Chaux de Fonds, Yokohama and Kobe
Richard Abenheim, (London) F. B. Abenheim, (New York) R. E. Abenheim, (Kobe)
Russell Leeds
A. O. Fisher
ADET CAMPREDON & Co.-95
G. Adet (absent)
E. Adet
G. Campredon (absent)
B. Martinelli, signs per pro.
ADVERTISER PUBLISHING COMPANY-74; Japan Daily Advertiser, Japan Weekly Advertiser: Tel. Ad. Advertiser
A. M. Knapp, editor
A. T. Knapp, assistant editor
A. E. H. Lowe
F. A. Brandt
Miss Dyer, accountant
J. M. dos Santos, foreman
I. M. Laffin, shipping agent
AHRENS & Co., H. NACHF., Merchants-29:
Tel. Ad. Ahrens & Nordlloyd
M. Sürth
A. Hofmann (Kobe)
J. A. Harmssen, signs per pro.
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