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YOCHOW-SHASI

is described by the Customs Commissioner as “doubtless the healthiest town in the Yangtse Valley, considering the insanitary conditions." In 1900, really the first open year of the port, the net value of the trade was Tls. 143,827. In 1903 it amounted to Tls. 3,473,241, but in 1905 the value was Tls. 490,058 only, and in 1910 the returns show a net value of Tls. 1,941,869 as compared with Tls. 3,015,913 in 1909. The noticeable decline since 1904 was the result of the opening of Changsha as a Treaty Port.

The noteworthy feature of 1907 was the connection of Changteh by steamer during the high-water season-June to October the resulting trade being valued at Tls. 617,000. Connection with Changteh is now maintained practically throughout the year by special tugs and lighters, and the value of the trade amounted to over Tls. 1,370,000 in the year 1913 of which amount over Tls. 1,225,000 represented the value of native exports. Buoys and lights were established in 1907 to mark the channel across the lake. The difficulties and risks of this route are considerable, and it is probable that it will be found advisable to adopt the somewhat longer route via Lulintan, though, on account of the sharp bends of the River Yuan in its lower reaches, specially adapted steamers will probably have to be used. The principal products exported from Changteh are native cloth wood oil, vegetable tallow and lotus nuts.

DIRECTORY

AUGUSTINIAN MISSION OF NORTHERN HUNAN Rt. Rev. Bishop Juvencio Hospital,

vicaire apost., Lichow

CHINESE POST OFFICE (Hunan District)

Acting Deputy Postal Commissioner- in-charge-E. Caretti (Changsha)

Acting 1st Class Postmaster-Hatun

Chih (Yochow)

關州岳

CUSTOMS-MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-R. A. Currie Assistant-J. C. O'G. Anderson

Tidesurveyor-E. Shelton

Tidewaiters-A. N. Lövland, H. Storrs,

A. E. Oliver, F. Gutteridge

POLICE

T. H. Gwynne

REFORMED CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES-

Dr. Wm. E. Hoy and wife

Prof. Horace Lequear and wife Rev. W. Reimert and wife

Dr. W. Adams and wife

Miss A. Traub

Miss Anna Kanne

Rev. E. A. Beck and wife

Rev. Paul E. Keller and wife

Rev. F. K. Henirichsohn and wife Miss Gertude B. Hoy

Miss Ruth E. Hahn

Miss Helen B. Ammerman

Miss Elisabeth J. Miller

Miss Mary E. Myers

SHASI

市沙 Sha-si

It is reclaimed

Shasi (the “market on the sands") is one of the ports opened to foreign trade under the Japanese Treaty of 1895, the official declaration of the opening being dated the 1st October, 1896. The port is about 85 miles below Ichang and is situated at the crossing point of two most important routes of commerce in Central China namely, from east to west and from north to south and vice versa. from the river and the sea by a magnificent system of dykes and canals, and is "a monument of ancient commerce, and witness to native perseverance and engineering skill." The district suffers periodically from the flooding of the Yangtze In July, 1908, the river rose to 30 ft. 9 inches, and caused the destruction of all the earlier summer crops. The population is estimated at about 80,000, and the floating

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