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UNSAN GOLD MINES-CHEMULPO

UNSAN GOLD MINES

ORIENTAL CONSOLIDATED MINING Co., THE -Postal Ad: Hokuchin, Chosen (Korea); Cable Ad: Pukchin, Hokuchin

J. B. Lower, gen. manager (Pukchin) M. R. Arick, ass't. gen. mgr. (Taracol) H. Cupp, gen'l. supt. of mines, timber,

and fuel supplies

(Tabowie)

A. E. Deardorff, cashier do. S. E. Iijima, secy. to genl. mgr. do. G. C. Evans, metallurgist (Taracol) W. H. Aldridge, mech. and electrical

engr. (Taracol)

E. L. Power, M.D., med. officer (Taracol) D. W. Leeke, assays and metallurgical

research (Tabowie)

T. Lynch, foreman roasting furnace

(Tongkol)

(Tabowie)

T. F. McCoy, foreman Tabowie Mine

A. Mihailov (Tabowie)

V. Mihailov

do.

Harold Harvey do.

J. H. Keene, foreman Taracol Mine

(Tabowie)

F. H. Wood (Tabowie) J. K. Moyer

do. A. R. Reed do.

E Larsen, forenian Tabowie Mill

(Tabowie)

K. D. Johnston (Tabowie) Gordon Chapman do.

S. Blain, foreman Taracol Mill

(Taracol) do.

P. O. Hunt C. D. Hatfield do. F. H. Thompson do.

B. P. Smith

M. B. Ordung

Thos. Derby

do.

do.

do.

Madge Schumaker, school teaclier Capt. E. S. Barstow, agent, Chinnam-

po, Chosen

Townsend & Co. agent, Chemulpo,

Chosen

Leonard Birnie, agent, Kobe, Japan A. Moir & Co. agent, London

F. H. Seeley, agent, 930, de Young

Bldg., San Francisco

CHEMULPO

浦物濟 Che-mul-po

This port, called by the Japanese Jinsen, and by the Chinese Jenchuan, is situated on the west coast of Chosen (Corea), in the metropolitan province of Kyongki, at the entrance of the Salée River, an embouchure of the Han or Seoul River. It was opened to foreign trade in 1883, when it was a poor fishing village, and is now a flourishing and rapidly increasing centre of trade, with a population in January 1931 of 63,658 (Coreans 49,960, Japanese 11,238). A railway runs from Chemulpo to Fusan, meeting the line from Seoul at Yong-dong-po (Yei-to-ho).

The annual trade of Chemulpo is Yen 140,000,000 (about 1,200,000 tons). Its principal drawback is a tidal variation of 33 feet, owing to which there only exists berthing accomodation at present for 3 vessels of 4,500 tons. All larger vessels must lie outside Sho-Getsubito island, in the outer anchorage. A new scheme of reconstrucs tion, to be completed by 1933, calls for an expenditure of Yen 1,400,000, and include- the construction of a berthing pier 371 metres long on the south side of dock to accomo- date 5 vessels of 2,000 tons, the reclamation of an area of 87,375 square metres for warehouses etc. and the building of a groin to prevent silting.

The steamers of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the Osaka shosen Kaisha and the Chosen Yusen Kaisha ply regularly between Cheniulpo, other Corean ports and Japan, and the latter company runs services to Antung, Dairen; Tsingtao Dairen; Chinnampo, Dairen, and Fusan, Shanghai.

There are telegraphic communications with China (overland) and with Japan, and a powerful wireless has been established by the Government at Ryuzan suburb of Seoul.