Northern Western Eastern Western Extensions—te: seen. Settlements ard Market Value yer Mow 1916 3925 5,600 8,500 500 4.000
Newly opened territory—West of Railway 150
Typical Site Valuer—Averaxe per Mow in International Tis.
French Settlements and nearby"
Best Bund Properties Best office buililin Not on Bund) Good office and shop property Central) Retall Business, good forel style (Not Central) Chinese shops and houses, beet (Not Central) Chinese shops and houses, geod '(Farther out) CChinere shops and houses, ordinary Foreign residence property to 20,000 to 120008 to "10,000 to "S000 3,000
Shipping Frontage, best deep ws Factory sites, ordinary Farm: land, outside Settlements speculative One 160 sq. 1L=1/6 igners is what is to-day called the native bank, issuing orders not for immediate "payment but at five or 10 days' sight. The home of this class of house has been almost from time immemorial in such places as Tientsin'Road, and still is, Subsequently Chinese banking took 'a new development, and the Chinese bank, conducted practically upon foreign lines—many of them being collecting agents for banks in other countries—began to increase in importance, and it may be said that the heart of this great financial organization is at the corner of Kiangse and Peking Roads. Here such substantial structures as we show pi tonally, are increasing year by year in number, and the interest they have in Shanghai seems to assure the future value of land in the port.
Generally the ground floor, only, is occupied by the bank, and the remainder of the building is Let as offices, and this circumstance brings a matter of considerable human interest into the picture. The Chinese occupying these offices are of the professional or semi-professional class to 'a great extent, and in one line of work it can be seen how they are following a foreign practice in vogue here. We refer to doctors, Instead of practising singly, ie Two TYPICAL CHINESE BANKS WHICH HAVE BEEN ERECTED DURING THE YEAR IN PEKING
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