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CHANGSHA-ICHANG

SINCERE INSURANCE AND INVESTMENT Co., LTD.-Head Office Hongkong with 10 other branches. Capital $1,200,000

The Sincere Co., Ltd., gen. managers

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STANDARD OIL CO, OF NEW YORK

L. C. Jones, in charge (at Hankow)

A. T. Parker, assistant

R. Geater, installation

司公成晏 An chen kung sze

TANG & Co., LTD., W. A., Antimony Pro-

ducers and Distributors-Cable Ad:

Watangco; Codes: Acme, A.B.C. 6th

edn., Bentley's, Universal and Private

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TEXAS Co., THE, Petroleum Products-

Cable Ad: Texaco

R. M. Worley

TUNG CHANG Co., Exporters, Importers and Smelters--23, Lou Pu Kai; Cable Ad: Taoli

YALE IN CHINA (Yale Foreign Missionary Society), Yali Union Middle School, Hunan Yale Hospital, Central China College (Wuchang)

F. S. Hutchins, treasurer

Miss J. P. Norelius, R.N. Miss Edith Mitchell, R.N. Dwight Rugh and wife Burton Rogers Richard Weigle Edward Knight

P. G. Greene, M.D. and wife

ICHANG

昌宜 I-Chang

Ichang is one of the four ports opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1877, in accordance with Clause 1, Section 3, of the Chefoo Convention. It is situated in lat. 30° 43.4' N., long. 111° 12.8' E., on the north bank of the river Yangtze, about 363 miles above Hankow, and some five miles below the entrance to the great Ichang Gorge, or just about 1,000 miles from the coast. The navigation of the river to this port is comparatively easy for vessels of light draught and has in recent years been rendered easier by the labours of the Customs River Department, which has marked

marked every

every crossing and established numerous aids to navigation. The anchorage is off the left bank, opposite the foreign residences, and is good, except in freshets, when the an- chors should be sighted every two or three days. The port is the centre of a hilly country, the productions of which are rice in the valleys, cotton on the higher grounds, winter wheat, barley, and also the tungtzu trees, from which the ordinary wood oil is obtained by pressing the nuts gathered from the trees. In the sheltered valleys, amongst the mountain ranges west of the city, oranges, lemons, pomeloes, pears, plums, and a very superior quality of per- simmons are grown, and find a ready market in the city and at Shasi. The importance of Ichang is chiefly that of an emporium for goods in transit to and from Chungking. Most of the cargo for the latter port is landed here and transferred to steamers (or chartered junks). In the same way cargo brought down in steamers or chartered junks from Chungking and intended for the lower river and coast ports, is transhipped here on steamers, which make regular voyages to and from Hankow. Since the beginning of 1927, when trouble first broke out, the prevalence of bandits and the tendency of the soldiers to commander all available craft, has practically abolished the junk

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