The following extract are taken from Report by Mr. O. H. Oliver, Com sioner of Chinese fter of inspection to Fak'umen T'ungchiangtan aod Tiobling, throe of the newly-opened trade matte in Manchuria Fak'omon.—Fak'umon is 160 li distant from Mukden and lies ina northerly direction, alightly bearing wont. It is on the main road from Mukde:
Newchwang, sungkiang, from which province th of the south passes through men. The trade of Fak'umen led down considerably since the owing ing of the' Manchurian Rail-utes have begun to change and to be diverted from the place.
The principal importa are foreign yarn, kerosene oil, and cotton piece-goods, which come by way of Newchwang, Hsiomintun, and Tiebling grain, of which the amount in one year is 1000,000 tan (each tan being 360 catties in weight), sod the value 400,000 taels; coal, which comes from opium, from the provi Heilungchiang; foreign opium, from chwang; tobacco and hemp, from the cast of the province and from Kirin; and Japanese goods, such s Paper, yarn, soa produce, and cigarettes, which come by way of Mukden and Tisbling. The total annns! value of imported goods, exclusive of grain is about 3,000,000 tele, exports amounts to about 1,000,000 taels annually.
There are twenty bean-cil factories which produce al yr in one year! 1,290,000 catties of oil and 320,000 bean cakes. Each tan of beans, weighing 360 catties, produces thirty-one catties of oil and six large boan cakes.
If Fak'umen were connected by railway with Heinmintun, it would become the distributing contre of foreign goods sri for the province of Heiluogkiang, for K'angping and Chengobiat'un, There fare 396 shops and stores in Fak'umen.
T'angcbiangtzo.—From Fak'umen to Tiangohiangtse, which is situated on the loft bank of the Lise n the distance a Bifcy li. This place was opened as a native river port in 1876, and trade from 1895 to 1899 was most prosperous, over million tan (of 360 catties) of way in one season rang. Last Slaw of Chang, within the jared tion of which Teungchiangtza lies, is famous for the beans which it produces very rich in oil. A tan of beans grown in Ch'angt'a will as many as forty catties of ai beans grown in other parts produce on an average about thirty catties of oil por tan, The principal imports are fore piece-goods, yarn and salt, which come from Newchwang.\ In an ordinary year about 114,000 pieces of cotton pico $11,140,000 57,330 of yarn, valued at $5,962,000 and 66000 tan of 4 ued at $532,800 are jotted on the while ti re large quantities of sundry artiolon, whose value has not been ascertained.
Eighty per cent, of the imports enn-morated above are sent further on to Ch'angt'a and K'uanch'engizu, only about twenty por cent being consumed locally.
The principal exports are boa oil, and bean cal Beans cot the surrounding district Bean oil is manufactured locally, an also comes from K' catties) being exported in an ordi The distance by river to Newchwang in 710 li, and boats take from five to six days to make the parsago down xtroam. Up river to Chengchiat'un is 233 li, and the journey takes from four to five days according to weather and current Formerly there were over 11,000 boats of all kinds plying between Newchwang and Tangchiangtza; now there are not more than half that number. There is all trolley line connecting T'ungchiangtzu with Tishling Ji, The number of shops, ete. in T'ung-chiang ten is 205.
Tiebling.—The road from Tungchiangtzu to Tieh, 91 li, follows the valley of the Lixo river, and is lo the way. The latter is a walled district q city, the circumference of th by poor farmers, There are no Chinese storehouses or godowns there, all the ping business being conducted from the east suburb of the city. The Japansee have erected storehouses of corruge iron sheets at Mafengk'oa, which have joined by a short trolley line with their railway station which is situated not quite " mile from the west gate of the city.
The principal imports are kerosene cil, foreign yare, cotton piece-goods, native cloth from Newchwang and Tairen; beans and kaolisog from the surrounding districts, from Hailuogfu, and from the province of Kirin; and tobscoo leaf from Heilungfu, C*baoyang snd Kirin. Sundries of all kinds come from Newchang and Tsiren, The total value of imports in an ordinary year amounts tu about 10,000,000. taels, including 200,000 ton of beans, value 1,000,000 taels.
The principal exports are beans, estimated value in one year 1,000,000 taols; hides, value 10,000 taels; and tobacco leaf valued at 200,000 tao!
re two old coal mined li to the west of the city at Ch'aanyinkou, and at Tataishan, which are still being worked.
The number of shops and trades amounts to 582. The distance from Tiebliang to Mukden by 120 It.
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