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CHEFOO

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 1904 the net export of Beancake amounted to 1,117,658 piculs as against 1,192,948 piculs in 1903 and 1,227,705 piculs in 1902. Silk, Strawbraid, Ground-nuts, and Vermicelli are the other chief exports. The import of Opium was 371 piculs of native 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 1904, after deducting re-exports, was Tls. 40,644,643; as compared with Tls. 38,183,912 in 1903.

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 is expected to greatly improve the port, and if present intentions are fulfilled, the first model town under native jurisdiction will arise on the reclaimed land. A mole is also under consideration.

DIRECTORY

AKINо & Co., T., Shipping Agents and Coal

and Marine Produce Merchants

AMERICAN ASIATIC COMMERCIAL CO.

A. C. Taylor, manager

斯盎

An-sz

ANZ & Co., Merchants

G. Gipperich (absent)

O. H. Anz

A. Berg (Tsingtau)

W. Busse

C. W. Schmidt

E. Thurn (Tsingtau)

E. Faber

G. Marcus

C. Okabe

Agencies

Norddeutscher Lloyd Osaka Shosen Kaisha

Rickmers' Line of Steamers

Shell Transport and Trading Co. "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. A. G. Deutsche Rück Mitvers. Ges., Berlin Germ. Transport Vers. Akt. Ges., Berlin Ostasiatische Handels Gesellschaft Eastern Carrying, I.S. W. Co., St. Ptsbg. Kunst & Albers, Vladivostock, etc. Verein Bremer Seeversicherungs Ges.

L'Urbaine de Paris

Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ld. Rheinisch-Westfäl. Lloyd,M. Gladbach International Banking Corporation Java-China Japan Lijn

Chinese Engineering & Mining Co., Ld. Dampfschiffs-Rederei, "Union," A.G. Baloise Fire Insurance Co.

Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Co. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society

Western Assurance Co., Fire & Marine

"BAY VIEW

Mrs. E. F. Ottaway

Mrs. F. W. Godsil

店飯南 Nan-fan-din

BEACH HOTEL Co.

F. J. Curtis, manager

S. L. Wong, bookkeeper

F. S. Yü, clerk

H. L. Wanttsze, compradore

宜相

Hsiang-yec

BEHRENS, PAUL, Merchant, Import and

Export Commission Agent, Branch of

Tsingtau Firm: Tel. Ad. Behrnes; Telephone No. 36

K. Thorhauer, manager

BLUFF WATER COMPANY (Call Flag G)

Cornabé, Eckford & Co., managers

古太 Tai.Koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

J. R. Greaves, signs per pro. (absent)

E. J. Newman

J. R. Lyness

G. B. Fryer

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