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ICHANG

昌宜 I-Chang

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 situatec 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 nightbourhood 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 ordi- nary wood oil is obtained by pressing the nuts gathered from the trees. In the sheltered valleys, amongst the monntain 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 opening of Chungking. All cargo for the latter port is landed here and tranferred to chartered junks. In the same way cargo brought down in chartered junks from Chungking and intended for the lower river and coast ports is shipped here on river steamers, which make regular voyages to and from Hankow.

Native opium is largely grown from here westwards, and is increasing in quantity and improving in quality. The export of opium in 1903 represented a value of over Tls. 10,000,000. The climate of Ichang is drier than that of the lower river ports- summers very warm, winters dry and pleasant. The native population is estimated at about 35,000. The foreign residents are few in number, educated native agents representing the four or five foreign houses doing business here. Fine new Consular and Customs buildings and shipping offices have recently been erected and have improved the appearance of the settlement very much. A German Post Office was opened in 1903.

The net value of the trade of the port, excluding_transhipment cargo, was in 1903 Tls. 3,189,566, against Tls. 2,527,814, in 1902, Tis. 2,638,955 in 1901 and Tls. 1,818,070 in 1900.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

Yew Cheong Wong, agent

Agencies

DIRECTORY

China Navigation Company, Limited

Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ld.

德立 Li-teh

CHUNGKING TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED

R. Gericke president

James W. Nicolson, magr. (Chungking)

Lu Feng-lou, agent

Agencies

North China Insurance Co., Ld.

Upper Yangtse Syndicate, Ld.

CONSULATES

ĦĦ★ Ta fa-ling-shih-fu

府事頜法大

FRANCE

Consul-H. de Marcilly (Hankow)

Acting Consul-Feer (Hankow)

Acting Vice-Consul-Gélis

* Ta Ying ling-shih-fu GREAT BRITAIN

also

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

Consul-E. F. Bennett (absent)

Consul Officiating-H. Goffe

GERMANY

Acting Consul—M. Müllen

Interpreter-Dr. A. Nord

Secretary-W. Freder King

JAPAN

門衙事頜本日大

Acting Consul-H. Kirino, for Shasi

and Ichang (residing at Shasi)

門衙國美大 Ta-me-kwoh ya-men

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consul General-L.S.Wilcox(Hankow)

Vice&Depy.Con.-Gen.-A.L.Sarle(do.)

REMINGTON TYPEWRITER, 327 Broadway, New York, U. S. A.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

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