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and several excellent boarding - houses, all of which are full of visitors from July to the end of September. The climate is bracing. The winter, which is severe, lasts from the beginning of December to end of March; April, May and June are lovely months and not hot; July and August are hot and rainy months; and September, October and November form a most perfect autumn, with warm days, cool winds and cold nights. Strong northerly gales are experienced in the late autumn and through the winter, and the roadstead gives but an uncomfortable, though safe, anchorage for steamers. In 1909, nearly two months were lost to trade through stress of weather and the entire mercantile community appreciates the necessity for proper harbour works, including a protecting breakwater and quay. Another pressing need is a good water supply. There is a good club. The races take place towards the end of September. Chefoo is two days' journey from Shanghai, and communication is maintained by the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, the China Merchants' S. N. Company, the China Navigation Company, and the Hamburg America Linie. In 1876 the Chefoo Convention was concluded at Chefoo by the late Sir Thomas Wade and the former Viceroy of Chihli, Li Hung-chang. An enterprise was established a few years ago by a Wine Company of substantial standing; the soil of the locality lends itself to such an industry, and the future success of the proprietors of the first Far Eastern wine growing concern is a matter of considerable interest. Chefoo is noted for its large and increasing fruit growing industry, supplying Shanghai, Vladivostock, Kobe and other Eastern ports with foreign fruits, which grow well with care and attention in that part of Shantung-the native fruit growers having received foreign instruction-so that which was at first a hobby is now a paying industry. Seven new filatures were opened in 1909. Other very important industries are the manu- facture of foreign silk and hand-made silk laces, which in the hands of foreigners promise to assume large proportions. Silk thread and silk twist are largely made and exported from here to France, Germany and America. Chefoo uses a large per- centage of the cocoons from Corea and Manchuria which come to China. Chefoo was
in 1900 connected by telegraph cables with Tientsin, Port Arthur, Weihaiwei, Tsingtau and Shanghai.
The trade of Chefoo is principally in beancake, vermicelli, ground-nuts and silks. The net value of the trade of Chefoo for 1913 was Tls. 34,950,713 as compared with Tls. 34,400,583 for the previous year.
Chefoo is much in need of railway communication as well as improvements in the harbour. The Dutch engineer engaged by the Chefoo Harbour Commission has com- pleted his survey and work on the break water may be expected to commence in the Spring of 1915, instead of 1914, as at first anticipated, provided that the condition of trade then obtaining in Shantung remains statu quo ante bellum. These improvements, in the estimation of business men, will greatly develop the importance of Chefoo as a trade centre. Chefoo is an important port of call for large numbers of regular line and tramp steamers, being in the line of communication between Indian, South China, Japanese, Corean and Manchurian ports and the ports in the north. During, the season from March to December as many as twenty to thirty steamers per day often enter and clear the port. The port supplies Vladivostock and Siberia with upwards of one hundred thousand coolies annually; the coolies leave for Vladivostock during the spring months, and those returning reach Chefoo in the latter part of the year. This Inovement of coolies furnishes business for numbers of steamers.
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Asz & Co., O. K., Merchants
O. II. Anz (Europe)
W. Busse
C. W. Schmidt
H. Wagner Agencies
Norddeutscher Lloyd Oesterreichischer Lloyd
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Shell Transport and Trading Co. "Dollar" Steamship Lines Portland and Asiatic S.S. Co. Northern Assurance Company
Mannheim Insurance Company, Ld. Union Marine Insurance Co.
Magdeburg Fire Insurance Company' Deutscher Lloyd Tranport V. A. G. Deutsche Rück Mitvers. Ges., Berlin Germ. Transport Vers. Akt. Ges., Berlin
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