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“...up by the fall in exchange, the equivalents
being 204,453/. and 208,223/. There has not, therefore, been
anything like the same advance in native commodities as in foreign
goods. On the other baud they showed nothing like the same
decline in 1.900.
Far from being the highest on record, the total is less than
in 1899, and very much less'than in 1898 (1,584,362 and 2,020,129
Haikuan taels).
Otton yarn. I have already noticed the most important single item, cotton
yarn from the Shanghai mills. These mills have lately passed
through a trying crisis, and it should be satisfactory to share-
holders to see that here at any rate their produce has held
its own.
Rice. The fluctuations in most of the other items depend on
temporary variations of markets in different parts of China and
are of little consequence, but the entry 61,480 cwts. of rice, valued...”
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“...16
KIUKIANG.
134,653/. represents yarn from the Shanghai or other mills. So
that the total value of the inward transit pass trade for the year
was 873,513/., the total of imports being 1,450,258/.
About 95 per cent, of this total (703,216/. foreign goods, and
134,675/. Chinese cotton goods) were destined for places in
Kiangsi; most of the remainder (33,548/. foreign goods, and 96/.
Chinese) for Anhui, and trifling consignments for Hupei and
Fukien. Seeing that Kiukiang, although in Kiangsi, is within
about 3 miles of the border of Hupei and 10 of that of Anhui, this
distribution is curic^s. It illustrates two facts: that the natural
trade highway of Kiukiang is up the Poyang Lake, and that
provinces, in China, are, for purposes of trade, separate states
divided by frontiers almost impervious to the transit of foreign
goods. Few serious difficulties from local tax barriers are
encountered in operating inward transit passes so long as the goods
remain in the same province, but obstruction...”
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“...occasion about the same time to ask a missionary in the
interior to obtain some specimens of porcelain clay and the stone
from which it is made. From the very interesting account which
he gave me, it appears that the stone is found in (1) Fou-liang
Hsien, the district in which the Ching-te Chen porcelain works
are situated, (2) two villages called Mei-chiang and Huang-chin
P'u in Yiikan district on the Kuang-hsin River, and (3) Nank'ang,
25 miles south of Kiukiang. The rock is pulverised by water
mills, mixed with water and allowed to settle in troughs about
2 feet deep by 6 to 10 feet square. The finer sediment is then
removed to a shallower trough and worked by hand into brick
shaped masses for conveyance to the kilns, while the coarser parts
are taken out and repounded. The bricks are stacked to dry and
shipped to Ching-te Chen. Such bricks are called " Kao-ling T'u "
whence our word " Kaolin," The better classes of porcelain...”
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