The Credit Agricole in Bucharest will award a contract for its office building, estimated cost $66,000. Servia. The estimated cost for the new parliament building is $415,000. Iron bridges over the Arnauta and Jassenica rivers are to be contracted for. Spain. The municipality of Madrid purposes the issue of $10,000,000 bonds to be expended for public works. The Dirección General de Obras Públicas in Madrid has granted a concession to the Sociedad La Plata for utilizing the Bornoba River in Hiendelaencina in the province of Guadalajara for the creation of electric energy to work the mines of that district. The Junta de Obras del Puerto in Almeria projects the construction of a dredger for said port. Don Antonio Conejero has applied to the ministry of public works for a concession to build a railroad from Baeza to Santuario. The municipality of La Rambla plans the installation of electric lighting. So does the municipality of Calannas (province Huelva). Don José Lopez Planas in Oviedo has obtained a permit for constructing an electric tramway between Oviedo and Posada. The town of Orense is to get a telephone system. The city of Leon will expend $600,000 for water and sewerage works. Talavera de la Reina (province Toledo) is to have a telephone system. The town of Mazarron projects the construction of electric works for lighting. The ministerio de la gobernacion in Madrid has been empowered to spend $58,000 for repairing submarine cables. A tramway will be built from Valencia to Moncada. A syndicate has applied for a concession to utilize the water power of the Henares and the Tajuna rivers for creating electric energy to supply light. Address Don Felipe Mora in Armunna (Guadalajara). Sweden.-The Stora Kopparberg Company, in Donnorfvet, Sweden, intends to erect works for manufacturing steel rails and construction iron. Machinery for this branch of manufacture will be required. Switzerland.-The Swiss Federal Diet has granted $284,000 for enlarging the railroad station at St. Gall and $1,080,000 for constructing additional workshops at the railway station in Zuerich. Electric railroads are to be built as follows: Lugano to Paradiso, Lugano to Gerra, Lugano to Salvatore Railroad Station, Molino Nuovo to connect with St. Gotthard Railroad, Neyringen to Grindelwald, Oerlikon to Schwamendingen, Locarno to Valmara, Locarno to Camedo, Grindelwald to the Sea of Ice. Turkey. The Société d'Exploitation du port de Salonique will introduce electric lighting in Saloniki and construct electric tramways in that city. SPANISH AMERICA. From German sources the following items relating to projected construction in South America are obtained: Argentina. The Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill granting $1,100,000 gold for harbor improvements at Buenos Ayres and La Plata. Bolivia. Until September 1 the minister of public works at La Paz will receive bids for constructing a railroad from Uyuni to Potosi, Bolivia. Brazil. Twenty million dollars in gold is to be expended upon harbor works (quays and docks, storage sheds, and machinery, etc.) in Bahia. According to the Brazilian Review a project is to be submitted to the minister of public works for the construction of harbor works at Rio Grande do Sul. The municipality of the city of Bahia projects the construction of sewerage works. The Madeira and Marmove Railroad, the building of which is projected by the Government, will be 212 English miles long. Offers for operating the road on a long lease will be entertained. The governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro has granted a concession to the engineer, José de Cruz Camerao, for building a railroad from Rio Dourado to Barre de Rio St. Jaao. Chile. The firm of Fould & Co. and the Société de Construction des Batignolles, of Paris, France, have received the contract for constructing sewerage works at Santiago at a cost of $6,750,000, payable in 5 per cent. bonds of the Republic. American contractors might procure subcontracts for machinery, supplies, etc., for this work. Mexico.-D. Telesfore Garcia has received the concession for building a narrow gauge railroad from San Juan de las Huertas to Zacualpam. Five hundred thousand dollars will be expended by the city of Guadalajara for the construction of new waterworks and a filter plant. The electric light and power company at Toluka intends to apply for a concession to utilize the water power in the Tennescaltepee and Saltpeter mining districts for electric energy. Nicaragua.-The Nicaraguan Finance and Improvement Company has received. a Government concession to utilize the waterfalls of the Tipitapa River for electric energy; also a grant for building a railroad from Managua to Jinotega. This company has also secured a monopoly for manufacturing explosives in the Republic. Uruguay.-The Government projects building harbor works in Salto. Apply to D. Anibal Semblat, in Montevideo. The Ferrocarril del Este Company in Montevideo contemplates the building of a railroad from San Carlos to Malduado. Opportunity in Austria. Consul Twells, of Carlsbad, Austria, in the following communication invites attention of manufacturers to an opportunity for introducing American products: I am receiving frequently price lists, trade magazines, and sometimes valuable illustrated price books, chiefly in the machinery, tool, textile, agriculture, sanitary, steel working, automobile, woodworking, etc., lines, from firms in the United States, and should like manufacturers interested to know that in many of the above-mentioned manufacturing lines a trade could perhaps be established in this country, but in order to transact business here it will be necessary to follow the methods adopted by other foreign and national firms introducing their products, viz., to send competent and experienced men over, instructing them to appoint agents who should exhibit their productions in national warehouses and similar places; or, better, perhaps, open branch houses, as has been done with great success by a number of English firms. The mere sending over to this country of a few printed slips and of booklets, as is done at present, will not produce the desired results. Attention is invited to what, I believe, may be a good opportunity for introducing American goods in my district. In 1906 an exhibition will be held at Reichenberg, a town in Bohemia of about 35,000 inhabitants. This is an important town in Austria for the cotton and woolen trades. Close to it are the principal glass, weaving, textile, and linen districts of Austria, and about 100 miles to the west commence the large districts of coal mines, china, musical goods, etc., which belong 1322 OPPORTUNITIES.-BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.-ADVERTISEMENT. to the Carlsbad Commercial Agency. Reichenberg is a town which enjoys much popularity all over Austria for political and commercial reasons, and the exhibition at that place will most probably be a perfect success. The exhibition will doubtless afford American manufacturers a rare opportunity to introduce their goods into Austria, and I would suggest that American manufacturers make use of this occasion and exhibit such goods at Reichenberg as they wish to introduce here. Furniture Exposition in Prague. Consul Ledoux, of Prague, Austria-Hungary, reports that the exposition committee of the Association of Cabinetmakers of Prague and suburbs invites the cooperation of foreign exhibitors for their exposition of furniture and kindred manufactures to be held at the Industrial Palace from August 20 to September 30. Under the supervision of the Technological Museum of Prague a special international technical department is to be established, comprising motors, woodworking machinery of all kinds, cabinetmakers' and joiners' tools and appliances, metal fittings and decorations, furniture coverings of cloth and leather, varnished and half-finished materials used by joiners and cabinetmakers. Patents and new inventions and processes for these trades will receive particular attention. Mr. Arthur Gobiet, of Prague-Karolinenthal, Bohemia, has been appointed agent of the exposition and is prepared to represent foreign exhibitors and to furnish all desired information. The exhibition is held under the patronage of the Chamber of Commerce of Prague. Books and Pamphlets Received. New Zealand.-Patents, Designs and Trade Marks. Sixteenth Annual Report of the Registrar, Patent Office, Wellington, June 30, 1905. pp. XII. 93. Government Printer Wellington. PATENT AGENTS AND SOLICITORS, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW 305-309 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. Patents, Trade- Marks, Designs and Copyrights FIRM ESTABLISHED 1879 WE TRANSACT BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY FOR PATENT SOLICITORS, AND PATENT AGENTS. AGENCIES AND CORRESPONDENTS IN EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD GRANTING PATENT OFFICES FULLY EQUIPPED TO GIVE THE HIGHEST CLASS OF EXPERT WORK, WITH PROMPT PATENT LITIGATION Electrician's By Prof. T. 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