Among the ways of communication that St. Antonio do Rio Madeira, the new municipality, has with the neighboring States of Amazonas and Pará, as well as with the capital and other cities of Matto Grosso, we would mention the telegraph line which the Federal Government is constructing along with its public road ways. There are two gangs of engineers and workmen engaged in the construction of the telegraph line. One started at St. Antonio in the North, and the other at Diamantina in the South. Leaving St. Antonio the telegraph line follows parallel 8° 48′ until it comes to the River Jamary, a distance of about 60 kilometers. Arriving there its course is changed to the headwaters of the Dgy-Paraná River, to a place called Urupá. Here it will meet and be joined to the line coming from the South. On June 3, 1912, at the very headwaters of the Dgy-Paraná River, the telegraph station of José Bonifacio was opened, by the gang from the South, while those from the North had, previous to this, opened the stations of St. Antonio do Rio Madeira and Jamary. This notable undertaking is under the efficient and extraordinary devotion of the Colonel of Engineers of the Brazilian army, Candido Roudon, who has a record for the construction of telegraph lines in Brazil and South America. Within a year, more or less, the telegraph line will follow along a roadway 40 meters wide, and about 200 leagues in length, extending from Cuyabá to St. Antonio on the Madeira River. This immense roadway of communication cutting all this vast interior, rich in rubber and gold, will have a telegraph station every 10 leagues. In Porto Velho, the initial point of the Madeira-Mamoré Railway, there is already working a wireless telegraph station of the Marconi system. There is daily communication with Manáos. Also with Iquitos and with the Federal department at Acre, Purús and Juruá. Transportation from Manáos to St. Antonio on the Madeira River is made in good condition and comfortable vessels. During the time of low water, that is during the dry season of the great Amazon and its tributaries, only vessels of 500 tons can ascend to those places from Manáos. In the time of high waters, when the valley of the entire Amazon is overflowed, the trans-Atlantic steamers of 7,000 to 9,000 tons, ascend in four days from Manáos. This has been done in the transportation of materials for the construction of the Madeira-Mamoré Railway. The vessels easily approached and made fast to the two wharves made of wood, one of which is in front of the offices at Porto Velho and the other at Candelaria. The Government of the Republic, however, has determined to build of stone and lime the wharves between Porto Velho and St. Antonio on the River Madeira. [Illustration: RUBBER ON THE BEACH READY FOR SHIPMENT.]