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ILOILO

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The principal manufacture in Iloilo for local consumption and export to Manila is that of pina, a cloth very finely made from the fibre of the pineapple leaf. Another cloth called jusi is woven from silk, and is made in white and colours. The country round Iloilo is very fertile and is extensively cultivated. The sugar industry is the largest, the export for the fiscal year ended June 1907 being valued at $3,934,460. Tobacco is also largely cultivated. Rice is grown on a considerable scale, but locusts are very plentiful in the island, and often do great damage to the cane and paddy. Earthquakes seldom occur, and now-a-days typhoons are rare in the district of Iloilo. Iloilo is about 250 miles distant from Manila. The principal traders are Chinese mestizos, who are very numerous in the port.

The island of Negros is extremely fertile and contributes three-fourths of the sugar shipped from Iloilo, the quality of which is excellent. The cultivation of hemp on a larger scale has been commenced on this island.

DIRECTORY

ABRAHAM, JUAN, JR., Carriage Builder,

Sto. Niño Street

AMERICAN BAZAR, Watches, Jewellery, Gentlemen's Furnishing, Pina and Jusi

Cloth

Juan Ismael, proprietor Macan's Martinez, bookkeeper Metri Hashin, assistant

Hugo F. Strugan, correspondent Hannan Ismael, manager, branch store Benjamin Blaibel, do. do.

AVANCEÑA, Señoritas, Teachers, Molo

BANCO ESPAÑOL FILIPINO

• Alfredo Rocha, director

M. Custodio, contador

A. Velez

E. Sendres, cajero

E. Rocha

BEHN MEYER & Co. LD. Merchants-Tel.

Ad. "Behn"

Directors - Hans Becker, Ad. Asmus, A. G. Faber, H. Riege (Singapore); F. Katenkamp (Penang) J. M. Menzi (Manila)

W. Gemperle, signs as representative Albert Kappeler

Agencies

Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen Hamburg-Amerika Linie

BISCHOFF, S., Merchant

Samuel Bischoff

M. Cruz

D. Navarrete

José Santiago

H. Theulaz

BORREE & HAMILTON, Stevedores

BOSTON-ILOILO COMPANY, Buenavista, Gui- maras & Iloilo, Panay; Iloilo-Negros Coast Passenger & Freight Steamship Lines; Cable Ad. Bosilo

John Bordman Jr., vice-president and

general manager

Hon. Charles T. Witt, treasurer

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & AGRICULTURE,

THE ILOILO

President-Raymundo Melliza, Vice President-Gregorio Yulo Treasurers-Inchausti & Co. Secretary-José Reguera Vocal-Lizarraga Hermanos Asst. do. Julio Salutregui

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS―J. S. Stanley

Deputy do. D. E. Fee

Surveyor of Customs-W. F. Roddy

Chief Clerk-E. C. Crick Appraiser-S. A. Roberts Clerk-H. Carmichael

COMPANIA GENERAL DE TOBACOS DE

FILIPINAS

Carlos A. Ferrandiz, manager Benito O. Carranceja, 2nd managr

Eleuterio Tormo, contador

Martin Arando

Manuel Iglesias

Santiago Fernandez Gregorio Tudanca

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