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Kobe and other Eastern ports with foreign fruits, which grow well with care and atten- tion in that part of Shantung-the native fruit growers having received foreign instruction, so that which was at first a hobby is now a paying industry. Chefoo was in 1900 connected by telegraph cables with Tientsin, Port Arthur, Weihaiwei, Tsingtau and Shanghai.
The trade of Chefoo, which is increasing, is principally in Beancake and Beans, of which large quantities are annually exported to the southern ports of China. In 1903 the net export of Beancake amounted to 1,192,948 piculs as against 1,227,705 piculs in 1902 and 1,566,466 piculs in 1901. Silk, Strawbraid, Ground-nuts, and Vermicelli are the other chief exports. The import of Opium was 237 piculs of native and 557 piculs of foreign brands as compared with 3,536 piculs in 1879, the trade having gradually dwindled. A notable feature of the native Opium trade is that practically the whole of it now comes from Manchuria. The net value of the trade of the port for 1903, after deducting re-exports, was Tls. 38,183,912; as compared with Tls. 35,924,413 in 1902; Tls. 37,660,510 for 1901 and Tls. 27,058,329 for 1900.
In July 1903, the excessive rainfall converted the streams on the slopes into two rushing watercourses which swept through the native town carrying everything before it and between 600 and 700 Chinese, mostly women and children and bedridden people, were said to have lost their lives.
Chefoo is much in need of railway communication as well as improvements in the harbour. An extensive work known as the Chefoo City Bund and Reclamation Scheme, which will be completed this year, will greatly improve the port, and if present intentions are fulfilled, the first model town under native jurisdiction will arise on the reclaimed land.
DIRECTORY
AKIHO & Co., T., Shipping Agents and Coal
Merchants
AMERICAN ASIATIC COMMERCIAL Co.
A. C. Taylor, manager
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ANZ & Co., Merchants
G. Gipperich
O. H. Anz
A. Berg
W. Busse
C. W. Schmidt
E. Thurn
G. R. Fischer
E. Faber
Agencies
Norddeutscher Lloyd
Osaka Shosen Kaisha
Rickmers' Line of Steamers
Shell Transport and Trading Co.
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Dollar" Steamship Lines
Portland and Asiatic S.S. Co.
Nihon Shosen Kaisha
Salamandra Insce. Co., St. Petersburg
Deutsche Transport Vers. Ges., Berlin China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld. Northern Assurance Company Prussian National Insurance Company Mannheim Insurance Company, Ld. Magdeburg Fire Insurance Company Deutscher Lloyd Transport V. Å. G. Deutsche Rück Mitvers. Ges., Berlin Germ. Transport Vers. Akt. Ges., Berlin
Ostasiatische Handels Gesellschaft Eastern Carrying, I.S.W.Co., St.Petbg. Kunst & Albers, Vladivostock, etc. Verein Bremer Seeversicherungs Ges. L'Urbaine de Paris
Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ld.
"BAY VIEW"
Mrs. E. F. Ottaway
BEACH HOTEL
L. W. Song Tai & Co., proprietors
A. C. Taylor & Co., agents
Ch. E. Frerichs, manager
W. C. Seung, bookkeeper Le Bow Hai, clerk
H. Q. Wanttsze, steward
BEHRENS, KARL, Merchant, Naval Con-
tractor and Storekeeper
K. Thorhauer
Bluff Water COMPANY (Call Flag G)
Cornabé, Eckford & Co., managers
太古 Tai.Koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants
J. R. Greaves, signs per pro.
G. E. Furness
J. R. Lyness
Agencies
Hongkong and S'hai Banking Corpn.
China Navigation Company, Ld. Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.
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