HOKOW-TENGYUEH
DİRECTORY
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CHEMINS DE FER DU YUNNAN
Lecomte, chef de gare
CHINESE TELEGRAPH ADMINISTRATION
Manager-Li Yu Ch'uan
CONSULATES
FRANCE
Vice-Consul-M. Robert (Mengtsz)
ITALY
Vice-Consul-L. Vaglio (Tchetsoven)
Hokow-fên-kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME (Branch
Office of Mengtsz Customs)
Assistant in Charge-J, P. Laucournet
Asst. Examiner J. A. Seck
Tidewaiters--F. R. Mackendrick, A. A.
Simoes, J. L. Baudot
Surgeon-Dr. Viala
局政郵等
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
口河
Assistant in Charge-R. Michotte de
Welle
TENGYUEH (MOMEIN)
越騰 Teng-yueh
The trade mart Tengyueh-situated near the south-western frontier of Yunnan, in lat. 24 deg. 45 min. N., and long. 98 deg. 30 min. E.--was opened to foreign trade under the Burmah Agreement of 1897 modifying the Convention of 1894 relative to Burmah and Thibet, and the Chinese Customs-house was opened on the 8th May, 1920. It is a walled town built in a rice valley and watered by the Tieh Shui river, a small tributary of the Tai Ping which flows into the Irrawaddy a few miles above Bhamo, which has been the principal emporium of Chinese trade in Upper Burmah for many years past. The distance from Tengyueh to Bhamo by road is some 140 miles, and little more than half that distance as the crow flies. There are two recognised trade routes known as the "old" and "new" roads the former via Nampoung and Man- wyne (where Margary was murdered), and the latter via Kulikha and Man-hsien. The "new" road ends some three miles above Man-hsien, and thence the journey to Tengyueh is made over the "old" tracks. Pack animals and porters constitute the only form of transport, and the time occupied on the trip is usually about eight days. Pack animals seldom travel during the rains (June to September), when through traffic is practically at a standstill, which means that, contrary to expectations, the construction of the 'new" road, which is passable all the year round, has not resulted in any increase of summer trade, the cessation of business during this period being due more to un- favourable climatic conditions than to the inferior communications. From Tengyueh to Yunnanfu the road is divided into 24 stages for caravans and nine for postal couriers. It crosses a succession of mountain ranges varying from 4,000 to 10,000 feet in height.. besides being intersected by numerous rivers, including the Sweili, the Salween and the Mekong, which would appear to render any railway project too speculative and too costly to be commercially practicable. Referring to the question of railway construc- tion, the Commissioner of Customs in the course of an interesting report for 1906 remarked:-"Should the visionary project of connecting Yunnan and Burma with a trunk railway be ever seriously considered, an initial difficulty will be the selection of a suitable route. Two have been suggested--the so-called Bhamo route via Tengyueh; and the valley of the Salween route via Kunlun Ferry. Opinions are divided as to. which is the better, but the latter perhaps allows of easier gradients and is, for various reasons, the more preferable. Both, however, are difficult, and it must be admitted
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