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HARBIN

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

AMERICAN TRADING COMPANY-98, Bul-

varney Prospect; Tel. Ad: Amtraco

F. L. Cole, representative

ANDERSEN, MEYER & Co., LTD.

E. Thacker, manager

A. Gerry, acting manager

C. Fick, accountant

E. Betak, asst.

S. M. Isakoff

For agencies, see entry under Shanghai

ANGLO-CHINESE EASTERN TRADING Co.,

LTD., THE

R. M. Koballim, managing director

司公油火亞細亞商英

Ying-shang A-si-a-huo-yu-kung-sze

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD., THE-Tel. Ad: Doric

Klemantaski Bates & Co., Ltd., agents

BANKS

HARBIN MUTUAL CREDIT CORPORATION

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING COR- PORATION-14, Vodoprovo-dnaya St., Pristan; Teleph. 728; Tel. Ad: Norbank

H. A. MacIntyre

J. C. G. Fergusson C. Farnworth

W. L. Hunter

RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK-New Town Branch

I. K. Pimenoff, manager

B. Carlos, vice-director

S. A. Tuleneff, pro.

B. M. Popoff, pro. in charge correspon-

dence dept.

N. N. Pavloff, pro. in charge bookkeep-

ing dept.

V. V. Himiku, pro. in charge goods

dept.

M. F. Matheus, pro. in charge current

account dept.

S. A.Volohoff, pro. in charge cash dept. Pristan Branch

E. Blacher, manager

S. A. Boushueff, co-mgr. of the office Z. Moors,

do. do.

Fuchiatien Branch

L. K. Kerr, in charge of the branch

office

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD., Tobacco Merchants and Cigarette Manufacturers-18, Diagonallny Street, Pristan; Teleph, 570; Tel. Ad: Powhattan

P. McCabe, manager

BRUNNER, MOND & Co., LTD.

O. S. Little, mgr.

古太 Tai-koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &

Sons, Ltd.), Merchants

F. S. Parsons

Agents

Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.

Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co.

of Hongkong, Ld.

Fire

London & Lancashire Fire Insurance

Co., Ld.

Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn. Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.

British Traders Insurance Co., Ld.