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CEBU

This is the capital of the island of Cebu, and ranks with Hoilo among the ports of the Philippines. It was at one time the seat of the administration of revenue for the whole of the Bisayas, but this was removed to Manila in 1849. Cebu is a well-built town and possesses fine roads, but the people are devoid of commercial enterprise. The trade of Cebu consists principally of hemp, sugar, and copra. The neighbouring islands of Leyte, Mindanao and Camiguin possess extensive hemp plantations, a large proportion of the produce of which finds its way to Cebu for shipment. There are some very valuable and extensive coal deposits in the island of Cebù, but the mines have not as yet been worked with any enterprise.

Cebu is rapidly growing in importance as a trade centre and when the projected harbour improvements are carried into effect will quite likely be the principal port for the es

export of hemp. The total production of hemp in the Cebu district in 1995 was 25,000 tons, which was below the usual amount owing to the trees having been in- juriously affected by a drought. The sugar industry has suffered severely in recent years by drought as well as by the shortage of buffaloes to till the land. In 1905, however, the production was 50 per cent more than in the previous year, but even so it was only about one-sixth of the total formerly produced.

PROVENCIAL GOVERNMENT

Governor Juan Clinato Secretary Leoncio Alburo Treasurer F. J. Schlatfeldt

DIRECTORY

Supt. of Schools S. MacClintock

U. S. Post Office

Postmaster Tobias Eppstein

Port of Cebu, U. S, Custom House

Collector - James J. Rafferty Deputy Coll. Stephen C. de Bruhl Surveyor H. M. MeCabe Chief Clerk Harold Homan Appraiser Frank Denison Quarantine Officer--Dr. Carroll Fox

ALDECOA & Co., Merchants, & Shipowners

A. Aldecon

A. A. Arteta M. S. Roulis Steamers

“Victoria.” “San Jorge," "San Bern-

ardino,” “San Rafael”

ASILO DE SAN VICENTE

Director-Pe. P Juliá

Hermana Encargada

Salinas

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Sor Hilaria

BEHS, MEYER & Co., Ltd. Merchants

C. Janssen, manager

Conrad André

Agencies:

Hamburg-America Linie

Norddeutscher Lloyd

German-Australian S.S. Co.

Board of Underwriters, Bremen

Deutscher Lloyd, Berlin

Upper Rhine Insurance Co.

Aachen-Munich Fire Insurance Co.

Boarda, Pedro, Los Cavalanes, Marine

Shipchandlers

José Boarda Claudio Boarda

BOTICA ANTIGUA, Farmacia, Drogeris y Fabrica de Aguas Gaseosas, Calle P. Burgos

A. Krapfenbauer, proprietor

H. Deininger, manager

BOTICA INTERNATIONAL, Chemists and

Druggists

Pedro Rivera y Mir

BOTICA "LA INDIANA," Drogeria, Perfu-

meria

J. Sarthou y Obin

Botica de SanTO NIÑO, Chemists & Drugs.

Vito Borromeo

BUREAU OF Education--Division of Cebu

J. C. Muerman, division supt.

Cebu - J. W. Baumgardner

Do. Miss Lalla R. Rogers do.- Miss Mary L. Donoghue Opon - Lloy E. Bement Danao-John G. Gwartney Tudela R. V. Robinson Catmon-Sinclair P. Stewart Bogo- Thomas C. Lannan Bantayan-E. M. Stanley Tuburan-Winfield S. Mason Balamban Linley E. Jacks

do. -Mrs. Carrie M. Jacks Barili -- Frederick V. Doherty Dumanjug - Cecil Bent Ginatilan---Arthur J. Mitchell Oslob-William R. Giberson Argao GB Schiller

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