Japanese coal, America, 156.

Java:

Products and exports, 259.

Quinine auction, Batavia, 381.
Jewell, J. F. (consul, Martinique), cylone,
Martinique, 575.

Jewelry, American vs. German, 361.
Johnson, F. S. S. (commercial agent,
Stanbridge):

Butter-making machinery, Canada,
576.

Canadian customs amendment act,
280.

Canadian law relative to nursery
stock, 637.

Schools, agriculture, Quebec, 480.

Jute crop, India (1903), 277.

Kaiser, L. (consul, Mazatlan), reopening,

port of Mazatlan, 155.

Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, movement of

trade (1902), 586.

Kehl, J. E. (consul, Stettin):

American trade openings, Germany,

211.

German demand for modification of

meat inspection, 293.
German meat inspection, 289.
German merchant marine, 323.
Imitation silk from wood, 51.
Kenneday, K. K. (consul, Para):
American coal, Para, 161.
American stoves, Brazil, 743.
Artesian wells, Brazil, 743.
Brazil at St. Louis Exposition,

747.

Brazilian nuts, United States, 155.
Carrying trade, Brazilian commerce,
650.

Rubber forests, Brazil, 628.

Rubber production and trade, Bra-

zil. 315.

King, C. J. (consular agent, Lille):

American investments and trade,

France, 215.

American locomotives, France, 359.
Kingdom of Bohemia, 357.
Kongo State, foreign trade, 382.
Korea:

Foreign trade, 406.

Trade with Germany, 188.
Korean grain, Vladivostock, 535.

Labor conditions, German vs. Ameri-

can, 363.

Labor in England (1902), 392.

Labor question, South Africa, 399.

Lace industry, Bohemian, 270.
Lace trade, Nottingham, 271.
Land banks, Russian, 699.
Land laws, Honduras, 647.
Lang, P. (consul, Sherbrooke):
American capitol, Quebec, 562.
American goods, Quebec, 562.
Langer, J. J. (consul, Solingen):

Demand, pig iron, Solingen, 155.
Fighting American petroleum trade,
748.

New German customs tariff, 558.
Tool-machinery and small-iron in-
dustry, Remscheild, 513.

Langhorne, M. M. (commercial agent,
Dalny):

Building, Dalny, 1.

Proposed custom-house, Dalny, 284.

Laws:

Automobile, federal, Germany, 754.
Financial, Paraguay, 445.

Meat inspection, Germany, 22.
Lay, J. G. (consul, Barcelona), Ameri-
can cement machinery, Spain, 217.
Leather goods, hints, export, 391.
Leather school, London, 770.

Legislation, wages abroad influenced by,
587.

Lemons, production and consumption,
620.

Levant, French exporters' cruise to, 659.
Lieberknecht, A. (consul, Zurich), fuel
testing, Switzerland, 603.

Lime industry, Germany, 667.
Linaloe, Mexican, 106.

Listoe, S. (consul, Rotterdam), new con-
troller of boiler water, 59.

Locomotive fuel, petroleum residue as,
157.

Locomotives:

American, France, 359.

American, superiority, 36.

'Japan, 669.

Mexico, 561.

Long, J. J. (consular agent, Parral),
Americans and American trade, Par-

ral, Mexico, 744.

Loom shuttles, northern France, 565.

Lumber, Manchuria, 530.
Lyon, S. S. (consul, Kobé):

American goods, Osaka Exhibition,
38.

Japan and Yangtze trade, 115.
Japan vs. Ceylon tea, 159.
Japanese coal, America, 156.
Osaka Exhibition, 132.

Macadam streets and telephone lines,

Saltillo, Mexico, 567.

McFarland, S. C. (consul, Reichenberg),
settlement of glassworkers' strike, 140.
McGinley, D. E. (consul, Athens):

Cigarette paper wanted, Greece, 746.
Greece, industrial notes, 142.
Machine tools, Germany, 363.
Machinery:

Agricultural, Siberia, 35.
Butter making, Canada, 576.
Importation, South Africa, 544.

Textural, Paraguay, 49.

Machinery insurance, Germany, 306.
Machines and implements, Russia, 189.
Machines and tools, American, Rou-

baix, 216.

Machines, tool-making, world's de-
mand, 171.

McKellip, W. A. (consul, Magdeburg,
sugar and fruit preserving, Germany,
321.

McNally, J. C. (consul, Liege), coal pro-
duction, Belgium, 657.
Madagascar, duties, reduction, 578.
Magill, S. E. (consul, Tampico), coal
imports, Tampico, Mexico, 624.
Mahin, F. W. (consul, Nottingham):

Brick laying in winter, 547.
House-cleaning devices, 244.
Lace trade, Nottingham, 271.
Mail matter in care of consuls, 370.
Malaga, American automobiles, 37.
Malay States:

Export tax, tin, 285.

Export tax, tin ore, 772.
Malta, shipping goods, delay, 119.
Manchuria:

Coal-mine concession, 151.
Commercial conditions, Niuchwang,
530.

Cotton-goods trade, 40.

Flour and flour mills, 153.

Grain exports, 530.

Manchuria-Continued.

Lumber, 530.

Railway tunnel, 573-
Silk culture, 274.

Manganese mining, British Columbia,
522.

Mansfield, R. E. (consul, Valparaiso),
insecurity of harbor, Valparaiso, 282.
Manufactures

American, Germany, room for, 441.
Galalith, or milk-stone, 73.
Musical instruments, Germany, 26.
Perfumes, Grasse, 666.

Porcelain, Germany, 269.
Maritime statistics, world's, 585.
Martinique, cyclone, 574.

Mason, D. B. (vice and deputy consul-
general, Berlin), rubber-goods indus-
try, Germany, 316.

Mason, F. H. (consul-general, Berlin):
American shoes, Germany, 206.
Calcareous brick and stone manu-

facture, Germany, 492.

Declining meat imports, Germany,

291.

Exports, Germany to United States,

20.

First standard-gauge electric rail-
way, Prussia, 307.

German fruit imports from United
States, 197.

German patent law, 301.

High-speed electric traction, Berlin,
598.

Important step in electric traction,
481.

New cure for cancer, 234.
Portland cement, Germany, 27.
Recovery of gold in combination

with tellurium and selenium, 516.
Scientific potato cultivation, Ger-
many, 677.

Masterson, W. W. (consul, Aden):

Mint machinery, King Menelik, 141.
Mocha coffee, 97.

Mayer, D. (consul, Buenos Ayres), Ar-
gentine wool statistics, 379.

Meat and meat prices, Germany, 675.
Meat exports, New Zealand (1902), 194.
Meat imports and consumption, Ger-

many, 293.

Meat imports, Germany, declining, 146,
291.

Meat inspection:

German, 289.

German demand for modification,

293.
Meat-inspection decision, Germany, 362.
Meat-inspection law:

German, injurious effect, 146.
Germany, 22.

Prussia, 289.

Meat supply, Argentine Republic, 588.
Meats, increased French duty on Ameri-
can, 360.

Medicine, practical, Germany, 373.
Mercerized-cotton experiment, 611.
Merchant marine, German, 323.
Metal:

Another new, 564.

Selium, alleged new, 148.

Metcalf, H. W. (consul, Newcastle-on-

Tyne), combination, shipbuilders,
Tyne, 156.

Mexican-Central American Railway, 762.
Mexican fruit for United States, 584.
Mexican imports and exports (1902-3),

404.

Mexican linaloe, 106.

Mexican railways, 444.
Mexico:

Americans and American invest-
ments, Chihuahua, 743.

Americans and American trade,
Parral, 744.

Coal imports, Tampico, 624.
European steamship lines, 76.
Exports, 165,

Foreign trade, 587.

Gold and silver production, 721.
Imports, 165, 443.

Iron and steel importations, 403.
Locomotives, 561.

Macadam streets and telephone
lines, 567.

Packing house and refrigerating
plants, 764.

Projected railway, Veracruz, 574.
Railway concessions, 761.
Reopening port, Mazatlan, 155.
Steamship lines, new, 326.

Telephone lines, 567.

Trade, 404.

Woods, rubber, and gums, 567.
Meyer, G. V. L. (ambassador, Rome),
alleged discrimination against Ameri-
can tool steel, Italy, 615.

Migratory movement of industries, 769.
Milk separator, competition, Russia, 192.
Milk-stone manufactures, 73.

Mill machinery, opening, Warsaw, 749.
Miller, H. B. (consul, Niuchwang):

Commercial conditions, in Niu-
chwang and Manchuria, 530.
Cotton-goods trade, Manchuria, 40.
Flour and flour mills, Manchuria,

153.

Jade, China, 158.

Russian enterprise in the Orient,
353.

Silk culture, Manchuria, 274.

Mills, W. W. (consul, Chihuahua), Amer-
ican investments, Chihuahua, 743.
Mineral output, Russia, 517.

Mineral production:

British Columbia, 56.

Canada, 520.

Mineral resources, Cuba, 413.
Miners' wages:

Belgium, 658.

Germany, 187.

Mines, British Columbia, number, 58.
Mining:

British Columbia, 56.

Ontario, 52.

Mining laws and regulations, Belgium,
658.

Mint machinery, King Menelik, 141.
Mocha coffee, 97.

Moe, A. K. (consul, Tegucigalpa):

Acquiring public land, Honduras,
645.

Agricultural implements and vehi-
cles, Honduras, 740.

Foreign trade, Honduras, 642.
Honduras at St. Louis exposition,
635.

Immigration and foreign trade,
Honduras, 644.

New revenue stamps, Honduras,
575-

Monaghan, J. F. (consul, Chemnitz):
American hosiery for the Orient,
438.

Commercial representatives for the

Orient, 701.

German toy industry, 267.

Regulations concerning foreign

commercial agents, 524, 722.

Monazite sand, concession for mining,
Brazil, 196.

Montenegro, Italian enterprise, 766.
Morel, B. (consular agent, Dunkirk),
Dunkirk-American trade, 359.
Morgan, H. H. (consul, Lucerne), new
railroad, Switzerland, 159.
Moseley's industrial inquiry, 451.
Mosquito plant, 396.

Motors, self-ignition, internal-combus-
tion, 64.

Moulton, G. H. (consul, Demerara),
commerce and industries, British
Guiana (1903), 651.

Mowrer, F. R. (consul, Ghent,), tobacco,

Alcohol from sawdust, 750.

Regulations concerning foreign
commercial agents, 728.

Tariff changes, 124.

Nursery stock, Canadian law relating
to imports, 637.

Occupation of population of principal
countries of world, 347.

Ocean steamers, German, 329.
Ocean transportation companies, Ger-
man, 76.

Ojalvo, V. (vice-consul, Erzerum), con-
dition and trade, Erzerum, 337.
Ontario, mining, 52.

Opening up trade with Tibet, 406.
Opportunity for American contractors:
Italy, 457.

Transvaal, 582.

Orange boxes, Paraguay, 619.
Orange leaves, essence, 103.

Oranges, production and consumption,
620.

Order in railway stations, 92.
Orient:

American hosiery, 438.

Australia, San Francisco, and, 540.
British vs. German shipping, 324.
Commercial representatives, 701.
Rubber-tree planting, 632.
Russian enterprise, 353.

Osaka exhibition, 132.

Osaka exhibition, American goods, 38.
Osgood, E. E. (vice and deputy consul-
general, Calcutta), tea cultivation and
curing, India, 554.

Ostrich farming, Australia, 576.

Ozmun, E. H. (consul, Stuttgart), sam-

ple museums, Germany, 24.

Packing house, Mexico, 764.

Pan-British protective-tariff scheme, 378.
Paper and wall coating, new, 565.
Paper industry, Canadian, 403.
Paper-making industries, Russia, 190.
Paraguay:

American barbed wire, 161.
Business opportunities, 445.
Financial law, 446.

Orange boxes for, 619.

Orange leaves, essence, 103.
Textural plants and machinery, 49.

Para rubber, future, 576.
Paraguayan-European through bills of

lading, 349.

Parasols, India, 156.

Pasteurization of milk, apparatus, 242.
Patent law, German, 301.

Patent medicines, Germany, 304.
Patterson, R. F. (consul-general, Cal-
cutta):

How to increase our exports to

India, 33.

Jute crop, India (1903), 277.

Tea industry, India, 552.

Peat fuel, preparation, Ontario, 640.
Persia:

Foreign trade, 191.

Russian commercial museums, 771.
Tea cultivation, 577.

Trade, Great Britain, 551.

Peru:

American railway enterprise, 122.
Cotton production, 654.
Electrical enterprises, 121.
Gold standard, 123.

Industrial conditions, 121.

Typewriters, free, 760.

Petit grain, or essence of orange leaves,

103.

Petroleum:

Combine against American, 564.
Greece, 763.

Petroleum briquettes, 159.

Petroleum industry, Roumania, 120.

Petroleum residue as fuel for locomo-

tives, 157.

Philippine Islands:

English view, 585.

Hints for exporters to, 408.

Plague prevented by vaccination,
751.

Photographic articles, China, 551.
Pianos, German, in furniture ware-
houses, 366.

Piatti, A. (vice-consul, Nice), flower cul-
ture for distilling, southern France,

662.

Piedmont, failure of cocoon crop, 273.
Pig iron, demand, Solingen, 155.
Pipes and tubes, seamless, 63.
Pipes, porcelain, for waterworks, 397.
Plants:

Mosquito, 396.

Textural, Paraguay, 49.

Plaster of paris, Hungary, 355.

Plastic flooring, 63.

Plumacher, E. H. (consul, Maracaibo):
Tariff classification, ribbons, Vene-
zuela, 381.

Tariff, cracked oats, Venezuela, 578.
Pooley, R. P. (consul, St. Helena),
American products, St. Helena, 223.
Population:

German Empire, 362.

White, British colonies, 348.
Porcelain and glassware, Bohemian,
356.

Porcelain manufacture, Germany, 269.
Porcelain pipes for water works, 367.
Pork, American, no longer prohibited,
Turkey, 229.

Port charges, temporary, Dalny, 9.
Port, Mazatlan, reopening, 155.
Portland cement:

Potash, German production, 185.

Potato cultivation, scientific, Germany,
677.
Potatoes:

Consumption of, Germany, 753.
Exports, United States, 692.
Germany, 677.

Imports, United States, 692.

Poultry trade, Hungary, 352.

Powell, W. F. (minister, Port au Prince),
American trade, Dominican Republic,
745-

Practical medicine, Germany, 373.

Preferential prices, foreign buyers, 369.
Preferential tariff, South Africa, 760.
Preferential trade, Australia, 759.
Preservation of eggs, 66.

Prevention of typhus, Germany, 18.
Prevention of warping, xylolithe floors,
63.

Price barometer, commodity, 591.
Prices of German yarns and thread,

372.
Prices, preferential, foreign buyers, 369.
Print goods, South Africa, 51.