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briquettes, which are then placed in a stove for ten or fifteen minIt then only remains to allow them to get cold, when they can be used within an hour or two of being manufactured. By the addition of sawdust and sand the briquettes will be more solid and at the same time cheaper. From experiments, said to have been conducted on tugs, the inventor claims it has been clearly shown that these briquettes give three times more heat than ordinary coal, there being, in addition, the advantage of no waste remaining.-Oliver J. D. Hughes, Consul-General, Coburg, July 14, 1903.

Process Section at the Toronto Exhibition.-Publicity is given to the fact that one of the most interesting features of the new Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building at the Dominion Exhibition to be held in Toronto, August 27 to September 12, will be the process section, in which twenty-seven different processes of manufacture will be shown in active operation. All these manufactures will include the very latest inventions in the different lines and on that account will be of the greatest interest, not only to Canadian visitors, but also to visitors from the United States. A few of the processes that will be on view are: Printing vast numbers of tickets by multiple press, bookbinding, and box making, all by the same firm; spectacle making, diamond cutting, glass blowing, die sinking, boot and shoe making, umbrella making, paint mixing, the manufacture of cotton. and canvas bags, cotton spinning, elastic-stocking making, chain making, electric-light-bulb blowing, button making, binder-twine making, electric welding, needle and pin making, flax spinning, soap making, metal spinning, carpet weaving, cloth making, broom making, and a variety of others, including the process of photogravure. These processes will be in constant operation and are expected to lend greatly to the attraction of the building.-E. N. Gunsaulus, Consul, Toronto, July 22, 1903.

American Branch Industries in Ontario.-The establishment of American branch industries in Canada is steadily on the increase. Among the latest of such concerns announcing their intention to establish plants in Ontario may be mentioned the United States Steel Corporation, which, so it is reliably stated, will construct extensive works at Port Colborne, Ontario, at an early date. The company, I am informed, has already secured concessions from the Dominion Government for dredging a basin at the entrance of the Welland Canal, and has arranged for 6,000 electric horsepower from Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Another proposed new industry for Ontario

is the Canadian Westinghouse Company, which has been incorporated, with a capital of $2,500,000, to manufacture electrical machinery, safety devices, etc., at Hamilton, Ontario. The provisional directors include P. J. Myler, Hamilton; W. Y. Soper, Ottawa; and George Westinghouse and G. C. Smith, of Pittsburg, Pa.-E. N. Gunsaulus, Consul, Toronto, July 22, 1903.

American Barbed Wire in Paraguay.-Among the American manufactures that come to this port barbed wire, by reason of its good and lasting qualities, is more acceptable than that which comes from Europe, although the latter is cheaper. The American wire gives more satisfaction than the wire of any other country.-John N. Ruffin, Consul, Asuncion, June 18, 1903.

American Coal in Para.-A very noteworthy feature of the commercial situation here is the fact that within the past few days three large sailing vessels have arrived laden with American coal.— K. K. Kenneday, Consul, Para, July 7, 1903.

No 276-03-11

FOREIGN REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS.

Conditions and Possibilities in Argentina.-A résumé of a long article published in the La Plata Times pictures the conditions. and possibilities in Argentina. For the first three months of 1902 and 1903 the imports and exports were as follows:

For the first three months of 1903 the imports from and exports to the principal countries were as follows, the increase and decrease as compared with the first three months of 1902 being shown in the second and fourth columns:

The principal imports into Argentina during the first three months of 1903 were: Beers, 1,597,000 pesos ($1,541, 105); textiles, 11,438,510 pesos ($11,038, 163), in which cottons figured to the amount of 6,344,387 pesos ($6,122,334); vegetable and mineral oils; drugs and chemicals; wood, 1,965,355 pesos ($1,896 568); paper, etc. The following table shows the principal exports during the first three months of 1903 and 1902:

It is to be noted that Argentina has entered, as indeed have a great many other South American states, upon an era of great industrial and commercial activity. While agricultural products make up the bulk of the foreign trade of South America, a good many partly manufactured articles are also exported.

Great Britain and Germany do a much larger business with South America than is done by the United States.

Trade of Foreign Countries.-The following tables have been prepared by the Bureau of Statistics showing the total imports and exports of the principal countries for the four months ended April 30 of the years 1901, 1902, and 1903: