Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports in China1869 - China |
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amount Amoy Anhui bales Bean Cakes British brought Camlets candareens Canton cargo Chaou Chaou-chow-fu Chê-kiang Chefoo chests Chinchew Chinese Chinese Produce Chinkiang Coal Coast Trade commenced compared with 1867 considerable consumption Cotton Cotton Piece cultivation Cuttle Fish decrease demand district dollars East entered Export trade following table Foochow Foreign imports Foreign vessels Formosa Fu-kien Grass Cloth Grey Shirtings Ground Nut Haikwan Hankow Hemp hills Hongkong Hsien increase Iron island Kiukiang Lekin Malwa manufacture miles Nail Rod Nankeens NATIVE IMPORTS Ningpo North-German Opium past Patna Peas peculs PEKING port prefecture principal province quantities imported re-exported Rice river S. W. to S. E. Sailing Vessels Sandalwood sent Shanghai shew shipment Silk Piece Steamers Sugar supply Swatow T-Cloths taels Takow Tientsin Tobacco Tonnage tons total value TRADE REPORT Transit Pass Treaty Ports Wênchow White Woollens Yarn
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Page 56 - ... lithological character. The stones were thrown into a fire of brushwood, where they burnt with a slight lambent flame, and as they cracked, the fragments were raked out, broken into small pieces, and macerated in vats. Subsequently the disintegrated mineral was thrown with water into a vessel having an iron bottom and sides of wood, and boiled for a short time. The lixivium was then poured into large reservoirs, where it crystallized into a solid mass.
Page 56 - ... thousand tons. The quantity consumed by the dyers of Ningpo prefecture alone, being nearly twenty-two tons per annum, is corroborative of this estimate. The supply is literally inexhaustible. Five dollars and a quarter a ton at the landing would afford the manufacturer a fair profit. It often fetches much more, as there has been an increasing demand for the article, owing to the greater facilities afforded for exportation from Ningpo in foreign vessels. The...
Page 56 - ... character. The stones were thrown into a fire of brushwood, where they burnt with a slight lambent flame, and as they cracked, the fragments were raked out, broken into small pieces, and macerated in vats. Subsequently the disintegrated mineral was thrown with water into a vessel having an iron bottom and sides of wood, and boiled for a short time. The lixivium was then poured into large reservoirs, where it crystallized into a solid mass. Blocks of alum weighing about fifty catties each, were...
Page 56 - ... journey. Judging from the number of laborers engaged in transporting the mineral on the day of our informant's visit, the quantity brought from the works could not be less than eighteen tons. This was represented as less than an average day's work, as labor was in such demand just then for agricultural purposes, that double pay was...
Page 56 - Subsequently the disintegrated mineral was thrown with water into a vessel having an iron bottom and sides of wood, and boiled for a short time. The lixivium was then poured into large reservoirs, where it crystallized into a solid mass. Blocks of alum weighing about fifty catties each, were hewn out of the reservoir and carried in this state in bamboo frames, one on each end of a porter's pole to the place of shipment, where it is broken into fragments. When not designed for immediate exportation,...
Page 56 - Three hours' hard walking over a succession of precipitous hills crossed by stone steps and pathways, brought him to the mines. Ten alummaking establishments were in operation, which, with the exception of one on a hill opposite, occupied about a mile of the side of a lofty hill. The works were adjacent to the quarries from which the alum-stone seemed to crop out of decomposed rock of the same lithological character. The stones were thrown into a fire of brushwood, where they burnt with a slight...
Page 55 - There is a considerable native export trade in wood, charcoal, and bamboos, brought down the river on rafts from Ch'u-chow. The annual value of this trade is estimated to be not less than $2,000,000. The shops and yards engaged in it are situated in the west suburb, where immense quantities of bamboos and poles are kept on hand.
Page 56 - ... the presence of minute quantities of iron. We have no means of ascertaining the precise geological position of the rock from which this alum is procured ; some circumstances seem to indicate it to be a new mineral. It is stated that no potash nur any other in a terial is employed in the works.
Page 56 - Assuming that day's product as a basis for calculation, and making an allowance for rainy days, we may safely estimate the annual supply as between five and six thousand tons. The quantity consumed by the dyers of Ningpo prefecture alone, being nearly twenty-two tons per annum is corroborative of this estimate. The supply is literally inexhaustible. Five...
Page 55 - TV1 site is a well cultivated plain, bounded on all sides, but at a distance « some five miles, by lofty hills. The walls are said to have been first erected during the fourth century, and enlarged and re-built by the Emperor Hung Wu in 1385. They are formed of stone, diagonally laid at the foundation, and partly also of brick, and measure about four miles in circumference. The streets are wider, straighter, and cleaner than those of most Chinese cities. They are mostly well paved with brick and...