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HARBIN'
easy land communication with large grain-producing districts as yet but sparsely
populated and far from being fully cultivated, though development is increasing. It
is on the banks of a river navigable for large, but shallow-draught, steamers, and is in
direct and uninterrupted communication for six months during the year with the
fertile land about Petuna S. W. and of Sansing N. E.; also with vast districts watered
by the Amur River and those on the banks of the less important Ussuri River, near
Habarovsk. Possessing advantages such as these, Harbin, important as it is at present,
promises to become one of the greatest trading centres of China. The country around
is a bean-growing country par excellence. North Manchuria bein? also essentially a
wheat country, it follows that the flour industry at Harbin is a flourishing one, though
loss than formerly owing to restrictions on import into the Priamur. There is a sugar
factory at Asiho on the railway, 26 miles east of Harbin, with a capacity of some 300
tons of beetroot daily, which it is intended to increase to 400 tons. The Harbin
Municipality have a numbe*' of plans for improving the town, and a loan of some-
Roubles 3,000,000 has long been in contemplation, the proceeds of which are to be
applied to drainage, waterworks, tramways, electric lighting of streets, improvement-
of telephone system, erection of a market building, town hall, etc.
DIRECTORY
Andersen, Meyer & Co., Ltd.
E. Thacker, manager
C. Pick
For agencies, see entry under Shanghai
Anglo-Chtnese Eastern Trading Co.,
Exporters of Beans, Bean Oil Mill
BANKS
Harbin Mutual Credit Corporation
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Cor¬
poration—14, Vodoprovo-dnaya St.,
Pristan; Teleph. 728; Tel. Ad: Norbank
H. A. Maclnt yre, temp, in charge
J. P. Macgillivray
J. C. G. Fergusson
D. C, Edmonston
Russo-Asiatic Bank
I. K. Pimenoff, manager
A. E. Ruthe, vice-manage
S.A.Volohoff, pro. in charge, cash dept.
S. A. Tuleneff, do., remittance do.
JL K. Kerr, do., correspondence do.
N. N. Pavloff, do,, bookkeeping do.
D. P. Satrapinsky, do., discount do.
Y. Y. Himikus, do., goods do.
M. F. Matheus, do., current a/c do.
I.B.Estrovitch, clerk in ch’ge., call do.
N. S. Smirnoff, do., stocks do.
I. D.Sutt, do., collection do.
B. B. Norman, do., Chinese do.
T. M. Wang, comradore
P. A. Korovinskih, agts. state treasury
Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd.
British American Tobacco Co., Ltd.,
Tobacco Merchants and Cigarette-
Manufacturers—18, Diagonallny Street,
Pristan; Teleph. 570; Tel. Ad: Powhattan.
P. J. McCabe, manager
F. Stungur
G. J. Burbidge
G. Grenberg
J. P. Hall
Brunner, Mond & Co., Ltd.
Owen S. Little, district mgr. (absent)
Robert Brock (Dairen) acting mgr.
Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co.
Central Police Station—40, Pblitzeis-
kaya St., P. ; Teleph. 171
M. S. Barsky, supt.
C. E. R. Co’s Daily Newspaper “ Har-,
binsky Yresnikk ”—Teleph. 518
Chinese Eastern Railway
Lieut.-Gen. D. L. Horvat, manager
A. C. Gintze, chief of the depart, of
railway affairs
V. N. Vuitch, sed. to the mgr.
A. O. Maksimenko, chief of the traffic-
department
W. D. Lachinoff, chief of the traction*
department
M. C. Koksharoff, chief of the land dept.
Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-
Lits & des Brands Express