In order to make it convenient for the businessmen who came to negotiate, a branch of the Land Bank was also established there, based at the tiny Yuli train station. "There were more than 20 hotels and dozens and dozens of rickshaws," notes Lin Shou-chang, who runs the 100-year-old Pusheke hotel.
為方便接洽生意的商人，土地銀行也在當時成立，以小小的玉里車站為中心，「有廿幾家旅館，好幾十部三輪車」，已有百年歷史的璞石閣旅館老闆林守昌用手指比數了一下說。