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ICHANG

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 neighbourhood 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 mountain ranges west of the city, oranges, lemons, pomeloes, 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 transferred 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 1904 represented a value of Tls. 9,702,270.~ 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 value of the trade of the port was in 1904, Tls. 37,090,245, against TIs.. 30,121,624 in 1903, Tls. 25,169,072, in 1902, Tls, 24,686,243, in 1901 and Tls. 23,143,617 in

1900.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

Yew Cheong Wong, agent

Agencies

DIRECTORY

China Navigation Company, Limited

Union Insurance Society of Canton. Lal.

Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.

德立 í Li-teh

CHUNGKING TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED

A. J. Little, president (absent)

James W. Nicolson, magr. (Chungking)

R. Gericke, resident agent,signs per pro,

Agencies

North China Insurance Co., Ld.

China Mutual Life Assce. Co.

Upper Yangtse Syndicate, Ld.

CONSULATES

#ã Ta fa-ling.shih-fu 府事頒法大

FRANCE

Consul-M. Dejean de la Batie (H’kow)

Acting Consul-F. A. Kammerer, do.

Acting Vice-Consul--G. Hanchecorne

府事領英火 Ta Ying ling-shih-fu

GREAT BRITAIN

also

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

Consul--H. H. Fox

GERMANY

Acting Consul-M. Müller Secretary-W. Freder Ring

JAPAN

門衙事領本日大

Acting Consul-H. Kirino, for Shasï

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.Šarle

關昌宜 I-chang-kwan

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Commissioner-H. E. Wolf

Assistant J. W. Stephenson-Jellie, A.

de Broc

Medical Officer-W. Kirk, M.D., M.R.C.S..

Out-door Staff

Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor—

E. Molloy

Examiners-G. Kopp, J. Ferguson

Asst. do. —J. McMahon, M. W. Fraser Tidewaiters-G. A. Anderson, G. F.

Haynes, O. Rasmussen, D. Verner, I..

H. Roberts, R. Bulldeath, G. W. Lynch

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