SANTUAO-FOOCHOW
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on the China coast: the approaches to it are well-defined, and vessels of the largest size may enter at any time, regardless of the state of tide. H.M.S. Waterwitch surveyed the whole of the inlet in 1899, and an Admiralty chart has been published. A telegraph cable was successfully laid from the mainland to the Settlement in July, 1905, and communication established with all China ports. A new cable connecting the telegraph office at Santuao with the mainland was laid in May, 1921, and the incon- venience caused by receiving and dispatching all messages from the other side of the harbour, which had been experienced for four years previously, was thus removed.
The port of Santuao serves important tea districts. Much of the tea exported from Foochow to Europe is first shipped from Santuao; and there is a growing demand in North China for certain varieties grown in the neighbourhood. No build- ing operations worth mentioning have been undertaken at the port, and no modern methods have as yet been introduced in the manufacture of the principal local pro- ducts-paper and pottery, though excellent raw material is close at hand, especially extensive deposits of kaolin capable of yielding far superior pottery than is now brought on the market from this district. The iron mines in the districts of Kutien, Fuan, and Siapu, where the deposits were reported in 1918 to be of a promising nature, have not yet been properly exploited, and so far no smelting works at Santuao, as then anticipated, have been erected, so that a regular trade in this valuable mineral does not yet exist here. The chief towns of the district are Funing, Fu-an, Ningte, and Shouning. There is a prosperous and increasing junk-trade, and regular steamship communication with the provincial capital. The net value of the trade of the port for 1926 was Hk. Tls. 3,874,522, and for 1927 Hk. Tls. 3,292,154, while that coming under the control of the Native Customs amounted to Hk. Tls. 3,645,432 in 1926, and to Hk. Tls. 3,650,307 in 1927,
DIRECTORY
CHINESE TELEGRAPHS
Ching Chi Tsai, manager
Wei Yü Daw, clerk-in-charge
關海福 Fu hai Kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME & NATIVE
Commissioner-A. J. Basto
Assistant-Li Ko Yen
Assist. Tidesurveyor-S. R. Ambrose
Tidewaiters-S. Kemp, A. S. Smith.
and Lin Ton
POST OFFICE
局郵澳都三
Postmaster-Sun Tsu I
(N.B.-Letters should be addressed: Santuao via Foochow)
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STANDARD OIL Co., OF NEW YORK
H. W. Livingston, manager (Foochow)
Hsu Baik King, agent
FOOCHOW
州福 Fuh-chau
Foochow (or Fuh-chau-fu) is the capital of the Fukien province. It is situated in lat. 26 deg. 20 min. 24 sec. N., and long. 119 deg. 20 min. E. The city is built on a plain on the northern side of the river Min, and is distant about thirty-four miles from the sea, and nine miles from Pagoda Island, where foreign vessels anchor.
The attention of foreigners was early attracted to Foochow as a likely place where commercial intercourse could be profitably carried on in the shipment of Bahea Tea, which is grown largely in the locality. Before the port was opened, this article used to
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