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CHANGSHA-ICHANG

DIRECTORY

ANGLO-AMERICAN TOBACco Co.

Agent--W. d'Arcy Hawkshaw

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCco Co.

W. Hawkshaw

CHICK, W. J.

Agencies

Goddes & Co.

China Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Sun Life of Canada

CONSULATES

GREAT BRITAIN

Acting Consul-W. M. Hewlett JAPAN

Consul-T. Takasu

Chancellor-Y. Hayashi

Inspector of Police-M. Hiyoshi

CUSTOMS IMPERIAL CHINESE

Acting Commsr.-Oliver G. Ready

HANKOW-CANTON RAILWAY

THOS. A. Ross, B.SC., A.M.I.C.E., and A.M. SOC. C.E., executive engineer in charge

會人本日南澗

KONAN NIHONJIN KAI (Japanese Club)

T. Takasu (chairman)

Committee-S. Sekiguchi, Y. Akatani,

M. Higoshi, S.

Matsuyama

Sakuma, K.

井三 Sam-chin

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

K. Matsuyama, agent

Yet-ching

NISSIN KISEN KAISHA K. Hiraoka, agent Y. Miyoshi, accountant

ICHANG

昌宜 I-Chang

Ichang is one of the four ports opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1877, in accordance with Clause 1, Section 3, of the Chefoo Convention. It is situated in lat. 30° 44′ 25′′ N., long. 111° 18′ 34′′ E., on the north bank of the river Yangtze,_about 393 miles above Hankow, and some ten miles below the entrance to the great Ichang Gorge, or just about a thousand miles from the coast. The navigation of the river to this port is comparatively easy for vessels of light draught, but great care is necessary for all vessels when in the neighbourhood of Sunday Island, owing to the shiftings and banks. Ichang is practically the present limit of steam navigation on the Yangtze. 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 in 1906 was nearly 50,000 cwts. The climate of Ichang is drier than that of the lower river ports-summers very warm, winters dry and pleasant. The native population was estimated by the British Consul in 1905 at some 40,000. The foreign residents are few in number, educated native agents re-