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T. A. D. Aplin

C. G. L. Hodgson (Iloilo)

G. W. Mackay

E. Criss

General Managers for

Powis Brown Co.

Manila Wine Merchants

Agents for

MANILA-ILOILO

Liverpool & Lond, & Globe Ins. Co., Ld. Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld." North China Insurance Co., Ld. China Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Yokohama Firc, Marine, Insce. Co., Ld.

WORLD BOOK Co., Publishers of Philippine School Books, Maps, General School and College Texts and Educational Tests and Measurements--34, Escolta; P.O. Box 1100; Tel. Ad: Daphne

M. J. Hazelton, nanager in the Orient

WOLFSON, J. N. & J. A., Attorneys-at-law ---202, Pacific Building; Tel. Ad: Wolfson; Codes: Western Union, Western Union 5-letter edn., A1, A.B.C...5th edn. and Lieber's

ZUELLIG, INC., F. E., Merchants (Successors to Lutz & Zuelling). European Repre- sentatives: A. C. Lutz & Co., Zurich Switzerland-Tel. Ad: Fez

F. E. Zuellig, president

H. Gasser, 1st vice-president

F. Bergmann

H. Graber

C. Kelling A. Irminger

K. A. Strohm

O. Schulthess (Iloilo) F. Kress (Cebu) W. Meyer

Agencies

H. Bruggisser

E. A. Schenkel J. Terol F. Selg

Lancashire Insurance Co., Ld. East India Sea & Fire Ins. Co., Ld. Fire Association of Philadelphia Bernese Alps Milk Co.

Clifford-Wilkinson Tansan Mineral

Water Co., Ld., Kobe

Royal Baking Powder Co., New York National Aniline and Chemical Co.

New York

ILOILO

Iloilo, the largest town of Panay and the capital of the province of the same name, is the most important port of western Visayas. The exact location of the city is latitude 10° 41' 39" north, and longitude 123° 34′ 12′′ east. It is situated on the border of the narrow Iloilo Strait, formed by the south-eastern curve of the island of Panay and the adjacent Guimaras Island. It is distant 340 nautical miles from Manila, 175 from Cebu, 243 from Zamboanga, 295 from Jolo, and 24 from Bacolod.

The port is on a narrow arm of the sea, commonly called the Iloilo River. Its harbour is well protected and has good anchorage for steamers of any size. The minimum depth of the river is 22 feet, and the minimum and maximum depths of anchorage are 80 feet and 120 feet, respectively. The entrance channel to the harbour has a minimum depth of 42 feet. The port has four-fifths of a nautical mile of water- front. Vessels can anchor at the river wall close to the Custom House and the ware- houses of the leading commercial firms.

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Iloilo is an important commercial centre. It is one of the Philippine ports opened to the commerce of the world. Vessels from the ports of eastern and southern Asia, Europe, and the United States call for sugar and copra. The port has also bi-weekly steamship connections with Manila, and there is a regular steamship service with Cebu, Dumaguete and Zamboanga. Moreover, two steamers. ply daily between this port and Occidental Negros. The Philippine Railway, which extends from Iloilo to Capiz, a distance of 73 miles, practically bisects the Island of Panay, and traverses an exceptionally fertile stretch of country. Each end of the line passes through alluvial plains devoted to the cultivation of rice, sugar-cane, corn, garden and minor products; while the central portion, being higher, is utilized for cattle- raising, the cultivation of tobacco, hemp, coffee, cacao,, sugar-cane, cocoanuts, and

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