Hankow's agriculture has fared better than i industries, The. prin, final agieultural products export from Hankow are cotton and wood Jol, At one time, the exports amounted to 40 por cent. of the total from China, Even about seven or eight years ago, the annual export was valued at approximately forty million Haikwan taels, but, during the past three years, only about $27,000,000 has been" reaped from "xporis yearly.
Compared with Szechuan and. Hunan, the production of wood all in Hupeh is insignificant, While de-failed statistics are unavailable, it is vinderstood that a iderable The copper "cash," the use of which "is now obsolete, will be redeemed by the Government shortly As most of these old coins have been! hoarded by the people in Shantung, Hopel and Hunan, the Ministry of Finance is arranging for their" pur-' Jehase through the branches of the Central Banke of China in these three "Wmount is exported from Hankow yearly, but, on account of the inferior malty of the oil produced, there seems to be hardly any possibility of 2'boom in the near future—Central
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