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CHARRIERE COMPANY

Ch. Pélissier, signs per pro.

M. Morturier

VICE-CONSULAT DE FRANCE

HOKOW-TENGYUEH

DIRECTORY

C. Casulli

Gérant du Vice Consulat

Ch.

Dupont (residing at Laokay)

VICE-CONSULAT D'ITALIE

Agent Consulaire-Ch. Dupont

關分口河

Hokow-fen-kwan

CUSTOMS--IMPERIAL MARITIME

Branch Office of Mengtsz Customs

Assistant--H. Picard Destelan

Tidew'ers-S. Woxen, H. M. S. Moreau

Chinese Clerks-H. Kosing, Cham

Man-to

POST OFFICE-Imperial CHINESE

(Branch Office of Mengtsz Post Office)

Postal Clerk-Kwok Kwang-chi

SOCIETÉ DE CONSTRUCTION DES CHEMINS

de fer Indo-CHINOIS (1st Division)

Ingenieur en Chef-A. Dufour (absent)

Do. Principal-A. Dumas

Ingr. Chef 1 ière Section-A. Bodin

Do. bis-G. Panciera

Magassiner G. Faucon

Telegraphs—Imperial CHINESE

Manager-Li Yu-ch'in Clerk-Ch'ên Ting-hsi

TENGYUEH (MOMEIN)

越騰 Teng-yuch

Tengyueh, situated near the western frontier of Yunnan in lat. 24 deg. 45 min. N., and long. 98 deg. 30 min. E., was opened to British trade under the Burma Agreement of 1897 modifying the Convention of 1894 relative to Burma and Thibet. It is a sub-prefectural walled town built in a rice valley, watered by the Tieh Shui river, a tributary of the Tai-ping which joins the Irrawaddy a few miles above Bhamo, which place has been the principal frontier mart in Upper Burma for many years. The distance from Tengyueh to Bhamo by the ordinary trade route is about 160 miles, usually traversed in seven or eight days by pack aniinals, the only form of transport. In a straight line the two places are only 80 miles apart. The road at present used is for the greater part of the way a rough mule track, and in the rains (June to September) is often impassable. Arrangements were made to open the route via Kulika and Man-hsien, on the left bank of the Taiping, a route which has the advantage of being open for mule traffic all the year round. The work has been done under the direction of the Burma Government Public Works Department at the expense of China. The present road from Bhamo as far as Talifu on the way to Yunnanfu, crosses a succession of mountain ranges varying from 4,000 to 10,000 feet in height, making any railway scheme appear distinctly chimerical, by this route at least. But the subject has engaged the attention of the Governments of India and China, and a detailed survey of a route is now being prepared under the direction of an engineer of the Indian Public Works Department. From Tengyueh to Yunnanfu the road is divided into 24 stages for pack animals and 12 for couriers. Owing to its elevation, over 5,000 feet, the climate of Tengyuch is temperate and healthier than any of the valleys on the way to Bhamo, many of which are rendered most unhealthy by malignant forms of malarial fever. Malaria is, however, very prevalent in the town during the rains, May to September. The Custom-house was opened on the 8th of May, 1902. The value of the trade up to the end of that year was Hk. Tls. 661,695. The trade during 1903 showed a satisfactory increase, the total for the year being Hk. Tls. 1,715,653. It increased to Tls. 2,085,504 in 1904, but dropped to Tls. 1,679,909 in 1905. The principal imports are yarn, cotton piece goods and raw cotton, while exports are chiefly represented by raw silk, orpiment and medicines. The only handicraft of importance in the town is the manufacture of jade ornaments from stone imported from Burma.

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