Cultivation, caoutchouc, Kamerun,
183.

Information for shippers to Lou-

renço Marquez, 749.

New Nile bridges, 561.
Quinine, 395.

Tea growing, Kamerun, 576.

Africa, British:

British exports to, 397, 571.

United States exports to, 471.
United States imports from, 470.

Africa, German:

Alcohol liquors, 570.

Southwest, foreign trade, 545.

Africa, South:

American competition, 39.
Gold production, 769.

Imports, Natal from United States,
616.

Industrial exhibition, 635.

Oranges and lemons, consumption,
622.

Africa, Southeast, steam communica-
tion, 327.

Africa, West, cotton growing, Lagos, 751.
Agricultural and woodland statistics,
Germany, 370.

Agricultural machines:

Russia, 193.

Siberia, 35.

Agricultural position, Spain, 592.

Agricultural prosperity, western On-
tario, 758.

Agricultural school, primary, Saxony,
148.

Albania, Italian enterprise, 766.
Albert, T. J. (consul, Brunswick), meat
and meat prices, Germany, 675.
Alcock, W. J. (consular agent, Huelva),
Spanish iron pyrites for the United
States, 376.

Alcohol:

From acetylene, 69.
From sawdust, 750.
Netherlands, 670.

Alcoholic liquors, German Africa, 570.
Alger, W. E. (consul, Puerto Cortes):

Exports from Puerto Cortes, Hon-
duras, 745.

Reduction, duty, candles, Honduras,

150.

Ambulance corps, railway and tramway,
New South Wales, 540.

America, Japanese coal for, 156.

America and Germany, coal and iron in,
583.

American and other interests, Mexico,
442.

American automobiles, Malaga, 37.

American barbed wire, Paraguay, 161.
American branch industries, Ontario,
160.

American capital, Quebec, 562.

American cattle, South Africa, 447.
American cement machinery, Spain, 217.
American coal, Para, 161.

American competition, South Africa, 39.
American contractors:

Opportunities, Italy, 457.

Opportunities, Transvaal, 582.

American corn meal and hominy, France,

ΙΟΥ.

American cotton supply, English eman-
cipation, 47.

American dress-goods styles, Germany,
362.

American enterprise, opportunity, Mad.
rid, 210.

Bacteria beds, distribution of sewage,

296.

Baker, O. H. (consul, Sydney):

Artesian wells, New South Wales,

114.

Australia, Orient, and San Fran-
cisco, 539.

Australian trees, 104.

India rubber, Australasia, III.
Industrial trade notes, 538.
Banana industry, Guatemala, 623.
Bangalore-Chik Callapur Railway, 406.
Barbed wire, American, Paraguay, 161.
Bardel, W. (consul, Bamberg), meat-
inspection laws, Prussia, 288.
Bartleman, R. M. (consul, Cadiz):
Cadiz-American trade, 376.
Coal trade, Gibraltar, 141.
Commercial museum, Cadiz, 376.
Direct steam communication, Cadiz,

744.

Gas and electricity, Spain, 154.
Production and consumption of

oranges and lemons, 620.
Spanish railways (1902), 154.

Battiste, A. (deputy consul-general, Port
au Prince):

Haitien exports, coffee pickings, 351.
Increased export duties, wood,
Haiti, 578.

New revenue-stamp law, Haiti, 575.
Beet and cane sugar as industrial fac-
tors, 385.

Beet sugar:

Area, Russia, 193,

Combination, Italy, 763.

Factory, Vladivostock, 698.

Industry, Spain, 763.

Beirut, trade center, 590.
Belgium:

Coal production, 657.

Regulations, foreign commercial
agents, 524.
Tobacco, 113.

Bellows, E. C. (consul-general, Yoko-
hama), foreign commerce, Japan, 223.
Benarus, M. (consular agent, Fayal),
American products, Fayal, Azores, 562.
Benzine tests, 596.

Bergh, R. S. S. (consul, Gothenburg),
new zinc works, Sweden, 703.
Beutelspacher, G. (consular agent, Monc-
ton), mineral production, Canada, 520.

Bicycle trade, Great Britain, 767.
Bicycles, German export, 258.
Bigham, W. R. (consul-general, Cape
Town):

Imports, Natal from United States,
616.

South African customs union tariff
(1903), 149.

South African industrial exhibition,

635.

Bills of lading, Paraguayan-European

through, 349.

Birch, D. R. (consul, Malaga), American

automobiles, Malaga, 37.

Biscuit factory, Barbados, 561.
Bohemia:

Coal industry, 266.

Kingdom, 357.

Lace industry, 270.

Porcelain and glass ware, 356.

Shipping goods from, to United

States, 358.

Boiler water, new controller, 59.
Boots and shoes, exports, United States

(1893-1903), 210.

Bordewich, H. (consul-general, Chris-
tiania), tariff changes, Norway, 124.
Bounties, Canadian, 278.

Bowron, J. (consul, Carthagena),
American-Spanish trade, 375.
Boycotting German-American petro-
leum Company, 756.

Brake, new, testing, Germany, 241.
Bray, J. P. (consul-general, Melbourne):
Australian, duties, margarin and
grand drills, 383.

Australian preferential tariff, Great
Britain, 145.

Australian tariff decisions, 149.
Flour and wheat, Australia, 313.
Preferential trade, Australia, 579.

Brazilian nuts, United States. 155.
Brazilian trade and finances, 589.
Brewing industry:

Austria, 301.

Kulmbach, 514.

Brick manufacture, Germany, 492.
Bricklaying in winter, 547.
Briquettes:

Binding material, 586.
Petroleum, 159.

Bristle trade, German, 371.
British Africa:

Exports, 471.

Imports, United States, 470.
British and German cotton supply, 46.
British chartered company for Siberia,
377.

British colonies, white population, 348.
British Columbia:

Mineral production, 57.
Mines, number, 58.
Mining, 56.

British consular service, 549.

British Empire and protective tariffs,

245.

British engineering standards commit-
tee, 99.

British exports:

Change in character of, 252.
South Africa, 397.

South and West Africa, 571.

British-French-German trade (1903), 705.
British Guiana:

Commerce and industries (1903),
651.

Cotton cultivation, 653.
Cotton growing, 405.
Exports, 651.

Imports, 652.

Repeal of tax on commercial trav-
elers, 653.

British investments abroad, 297.

British motor car act, 710.

British trade:

China, 176.

Hamburg, 168.

British vs. German shipping in Orient,

324.

British vs. German trade, Russia, 573.

British West Africa, cotton cultivation,

542.

British West Indies, encouraging cotton
planting, 276.

Brittain, J. I. (consul, Kehl), order in
railway stations, 92.

Brundage, F. W. (consul, Aix la Cha-
pelle), American trade, Aix la Cha-
pelle, 743.

Brunot, H. S. (consul, St. Etienne), Ger-
man and American vs. French coal,
France, 219.

Bryan, C. P. (minister, Lisbon), wire

netting needed, Portugal, 561.
Building materials, South Africa, 471.
Bulgaria:

Foreign commerce, 572.
Regulations, foreign commercial
agents, 524.

Trade opportunities, 172.
Burke, M. J. (consul, St. Thomas):
Freight tonnage of the Soo, 78.
Homesteaders, Northwest Canada,
156.

Mining, Ontario, 52.

Preparation, peat fuel, Ontario, 640.
Butter and eggs, Russian exports, 573.
Butter industry, Argentine Republic,
115.

Butter-making machinery, Canada, 576.
Butter production, Siberia, 538.
Butter, Siberian trade, 139, 374.

Cable, Argentine Republic, 551.
Cable rates, reduction, German, to the
Orient, 371.

Cadiz-American trade, 376.

Cadiz, commercial museum, 376.

Cairo, international chamber of com-
merce, 158..

Calcareous brick and stone manufacture,
492.

Calcium carbide, submarine boats, 604.
Caldwell, C. S. (vice-consul, San José),

change in tariffs, Costa Rica, 150.
Caldwell, J. C. (consul, San José) changes
in Costa Rica tariffs, 380.

Campaign literature, Great Britain, 769.
Camphor forest, Formosa, 196.
Canada:

Agricultural prosperity, western
Ontario, 758.

Agricultural school, Quebec, 480.
American capital, Quebec, 562.
American goods, Quebec, 562.
American trade, St. John's, Quebec,
746.

Canada-Continued.

Bounties, 278.

Butter-making machinery, 557.
Copper and asbestos mines, Quebec,

758.

Customs amendment act, 280.
Effect of preferential tariff law, 579.
Enterprises, Ontario, 131.
Freight tonnage, Soo, 78.

Gold and manganese mining, Brit-
ish Columbia, 522.

Gold mining, Yukon Territory, 712.
Imports and exports (1903), 256.
Invention for handling cheese, 402.
Law relative to imports of nursery
stock, 627.

Mineral production, 520.
Mining, Ontario, 52.

Nickel mines, Ontario, 758.

Northwest, homesteaders, 156.
Oranges and lemons, consumption,
622.

Paper industry, 403.

Preparation of peat for fuel, 640.
Surtax on German goods, 757.

Tariff changes, 638.

Toronto Exhibition, process section,

160.

Trade, Hamburg, 168.
Transcontinental Railway, 179.
Woolen industry, 759.

Canada, W. W. (consul, Veracruz):
Fine woods, rubber, and gums,
Mexico, 567.

Free importations, Yucatan, 150.
New European-Mexican steamship
lines, 76.

New Mexican steamship lines, 326.
Projected railway, Veracruz, Mex-

ico, 574.

Canal boats, prizes for raising, 157.
Canals:

Kaiser Wilhelm, trade movement
(1902), 586.

Suez (1902), 83.

Traffic, Suez, 401.

Cancer, new cure, 234.

Candles, duty, reduction, Honduras, 150.
Caoutchouc, cultivation, Kamerun, 183.
Cape fruit trade, 397.

Capital, German, Chile, 661.

Carleton, A. E. (consular agent, Alme-
ria), electric tramway, Spain, 154.