HARBIN
Harbin, the junction of the railways from Irkutsk to Vladivostok, and from Harbin' to Kwangchengtze, where the latter joins the Japanese line to Dalny, has been made the seat of a Chinese Maritime Customs House to control the railway traffic by means of sub-Stations at Manchuria Station on the western frontier and Suifenho (Pogranit- chnaia) on the eastern frontier. Its situation on the railway is within comparatively easy land communication with large grain-producing districts as yet but sparsely populated and far from being fully cultivated, though development is increasing. It is on the banks of a river navigable for large, but shallow-draught, steamers, and is in direct and uninterrupted communication for six months during the year with the fertile land about Petuna S. W. and of Sansing N. E.; also with vast districts watered by the Amur River and those on the banks of the less important Ussuri River, near Habarovsk. Possessing advantages such as these, Harbin, important as it is at present. promises to become one of the greatest trading centres of China. The country around is a bean-growing country par excellence. North Manchuria being also essentially a wheat country, it follows that the flour industry at Harbin is a flourishing one, though less than formerly owing to restrictions on import into the Priamur. There is a sugar factory at Asiho on the railway, 26 miles east of Harbin, with a capacity of some 300 tons of beetroot daily, which it is intended to increase to 400 tons. The Harbin Municipality have a number of plans for improving the town, and a loan of some Roubles 3,000,000 has long been in contemplation, the proceeds of which are to be applied to drainage, waterworks, tramways, electric lighting of streets, improvement of telephone system, erection of a market building, town hall, etc.
DIRECTORY
ANGLO-CHINESE EASTERN TRADING Co.,
Exporters of Beans, Bean Oil Mill
K. Kabalkin, manager
BANKS
HARBIN MUTUAL CREDIT CORPORATION
E. L. Dinovsky, chairman of the
board of directors
L. A. Moors, manager
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING Cor- PORATION—18, Diagonal Street, P. Teleph. 728; Tel. Ad: Norbank
;
A. D. Brent, agent
J. P. Macgillivray
J. C. G. Fergusson
RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK
Prince G. G. Kugusheff, director of
Manchurian Branches
W. J. Isakovitch, signs per pro.
A. E. Ruthe,
S. A. Volohoff,
S. A. Tuleneff,
L. K. Kerr,
do.
do.
do.
do.
S. J. Shmulevitch, bookkeeper
A. G. Bespalkoff, chief corresp. B. B. Norman, foreign
do.
P. G. Brigand, current acct, dept. M. F. Mateus,
do.
I. B. Estrovitch, on call dept. M. K. Kandinsky, remittance dept. I. D. Sutt,
do.
I. G. Kalashnikoff, stocks and
shares dept.
A. A. Tkalitch, goods dept.
B. Th. Okorokoff, discount dept. Mrs. E. H. Buriakin, archives dept. L. M. Ivanoff, head cashier
P. A. Korovinsky, agent of the
State Treasury
M. V. Balandin
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.
H. Kaida, manager
BERTOG & Co., Importers and Exporters- Kommercheskaya, St., 47; Teleph. 699
M. J. Yakubovitch, agent
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Da-fong
BRACKENHOEFT, ALFONS, Import, Export and Government Contractor -- Head Office: Changchun. Branches: Kirin, Mukden, Newchwang, Kaiyuan and Dairen; Tel. Ad: Dafong
A. Brackenhoeft (Changchun)
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