The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-23
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1t mas the finest slaughter house in the
world. No animals for food are per-
mitted to be killed anywhere in the
colony but there. They are kept under
observation for forty-eight hours be-
fore killing and the carca sses immed-
lately placed in cold storage for forty
eight hours more, during which time
they are microscopicalsy examined
| twelve times. Thus does Germany look
after the health of her colonists.
Good roads have been built to the
limits of the colony, So miles in every
direction. These roads are about fifty
feet wide for general vehicles. Then
there is path for wheelbarrows which
are usual mode of conveyance, and
then path for riding horses and then
"a sidewalk. At frequent intervals along
the road there are white granite posts
so that the road can easily be followed
at night. The finest granite in the
world is quarried right there in Shan
tung and is shipped TO many places.
THE Chinese laboring classes are not
allowed to live in Tsingtau, but are re-
CURED to live in a village of about
40. 900 three miles from Tsingtau This
village has a sewer system and is sup
piled with water. 1t has one main
street running through it and cross
streets named after the various prov
ince of China.
When the Germans took the colony
there We're some fishing villages there,
a temple and yamen. There are now
maintained there about 1900 troops
housed in granite barracks. There are
about 5000 or 1000 Germans there, most
of them in government employ, and the
others in occupations depending on
government employ.
THE Germans have done much in
developing a system of forestation not
alone for the colony, but for the Chi
nese in the hinterland. Shantung is a
great fruit country and they have edu-
Gated the Chinese in the matter of
grating better varieties on their native
stock until last year 10000 CRAFTS were
sold TO the Chinese.
THE Imperial Chinese Customs Ser
vice has charge of imports and ex-
ports, and twenty per cent. of these
import duties go to the support of the
colony The cost of living is very
high, from fifty to seventy per cent.
higher than elsewhere in China. Rents
are high.
THE oil is the great import. The
American Oil Company last year i'm
ported 100000 gallons and the Su-
matra Oil Company 100000 gallons.
This was a great increase over pre-
vious years. There is great deal of
piece goods and wooden goods import
ed and whole shiploads of old horse
shoes. which are used by the Chinese
to make their agricultural implements
out of Analine dyes in large quanti-
ties, sugar from Hongkong and yarns
from Japan are largely imported.
lone great difficulty in Chinese trade
is the rate of exchange, which is con-
stantly f1uctuating. In Shantung there
is the additional disadvantage in the
variation in the exchange rate be-
tween the tael and cash. In 1906 the
rate was 2400 cash for one tael. In
1907 it had risen to 5000 cash for one
tael This resulted in a considerable
falling off in the importation of yarns
and piece goods.
THE great export is straw braid,
which is made up into straw hats
in other parts of the world. In for
mer days this trade went to Chefoo,
but it has been diverted to Tsingtau,
partly because of the superior trans
portatio there and partly because the
Germans allowed the Chinese compra-
doris two per cent. for purchasing it,
whereas in Chefoo only one per cent.
was allowed.
Sixty per cent. of the straw braid
goes to America. The Shantung SILK
trade still goes to Chefoo. Other great
arcles of export are beans and pea
nuts and oils extracted from them.
After the oil is extracted the residue
is bean cake, which is used as fertl-
lizer and as feed for cattle. 1t in
ereases the butter fat in the milk Of
Chinese cows fed on it from two and
a half per cent to seven or eight pei
cent 1t might not give equal increase
in the cows of America, because the
Chinese cows are poor stock, seldom
giving more than a quart of milk a
day.
Among possible imports are colo
storage plants and products Some
cold storage meats are already being
| brought in from Australia. Timber
for coal mines might also be brought
in 1t is now brought in from Japan
The Shantung mines last year yielded
1863, 600 tons of coal, useful for domes
tic purposes but of little value for
steam Iron mines are as yet little de-
yeloped because of the lack of coke
The total trade of the colony las'
year was s3O.000,000. Very little OF
this is really the trade of Tsingtau'
It is the trade that goes through
Tsingtau to the hinterland.
THE trade of China may be divided
into three classes-Q) that for the
%, 600 Europeans who live in China,
who buy the Identical things that Eu-
ropeans everywhere want: (2) the trade
of the high-class Chinese, the hterat
the merchant class and the official
class, who want many of the kinds o.
goods desired by Europeans and are
able to pay for them: of these there
are between three and four millions;
(3) the trade of the 430,000,G00 common
people of the Empire, who want every
thing that is little better and a
little cheaper than the same class OF
goods made by themselves.
The best way to IMPROVE trade con-
ditions is personal investigation. There
should either be a Commercial Com
missioner to travel throughout China
or a Commercial Attache. Great Brit
ain has a Commissioner, Sir Alexander
HOting whose reports are looked TO by