Madeira, the new municipality, has with the neighboring States 
of Amazonas and Para, 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 work- 
men 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-Parana River, to a place called Urupa. 
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- 
Parana 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. Antoino 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 Cuyaba 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 Ma- 
deira-Marmoré Railway, there is already working a wireless 
telegraph station of the Marconi system. There is daily com- 
munication with Manaos. Also with Iquitos and with the Federal 
department at Acre, Purus and Jurua. 
Transportation from Manaos to St. Antonio on the Madeira 
River is made in good condition and comfortable vessels. Dur- 
ing 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 Manaos. 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 Manaos. This has been done in the transportation of 
materials for the construction of the Madeira-Marmoré 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. 
The small steamers which navigate during the dry season, 
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