The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1891-08-07
FACTS ON BRAZIL.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS
ABOUT OUR NEW COM
MERCIAL ALLY.
a Bigger Country Than the United States
Climate to Suit Everybody
What They Raise.

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States. knew less about the countries
of South America than they die
about those of Asia. The average
American could tell their names, ano
possibly, where they were located,
but Of their people, their institutions
and the majority of their products he
knew nothing. nor did he care to learn
Today there is a general demand fol
information about IL sister Repub.
lies. Every citizen is interested in
them. Uncle Sam has turned his eve
to the south and is preparing to cap
ture the enormous trade which Eng.
land, Germany and France have en-
joyed for so many years. He wants
their products, and il. return he pro-
poses to supply them with American
wheat, calico and plows, and all the
other agriculture and mechanical
products which we have and they
have not. 1t is a matter in which all
the farmers and all the business men
are personlly concerned, for it means
money in their pockets.
Because Of the recent revolution
which changed the only empire on
the western hemisphere to a repub-
lie, and because of the reciprocity
treaty with the United States, lately
ratified, this great country of Brazil
is just now uppermost in public in
tercst in the United States. And it is
a great country. Did you know that
it was larger than the United States,
exclusive of Alaska? 1t doesn't look
so on the school maps, but it is.
Nearly the whole of Europe could be
placed within her boundaries. 1t is
over 1900 miles from east to west at
its widest part, and fully as many
north to south. 1t has $500 miles OF
coast line, and has more navigable
rivers than any country in the world
WONDERFUL WATERWAYS.
Indeed almost any portion of tho
great republic can be reached by
water. The Amazon crosses the en-
tire country from east to west, and
and it's immense and numerous tribu.
tarics streatches out to the north anC
to the south, form a wonderful net
work of navigable waterways tina
will yet be of enormous value t.
Brazil. At present however, they
cut no very important figure in thu
commerce of the country. The terc'
tory through which they pass is prac
ticaly u%ninhabited and some of these
rivers flow for hundreds and thous
ands of miles through unbroken for
csts. These regions are too vii,
for civilized men and the induce
ments which they offer the pionec:
are not sufficient to recompens'
him for the risk he runs in p%enetrat
ing these savage depths. The intens
and %'1unvarying heat, the constan
rainfall, the insects and wild animals
and the astonishipgly luxuriant vege
tation which defies all effort to sup
press it, arc obstacles which few mel
would care to wrestlc with. In con
sequence the population of Brazil i
almost confined to the more congen
ial and salubrious sea coast and tn
territory south of the tenth parable
where the country is mountainou
and the climate cooler.
ALL KINDS OF CLIMATE.
Any IL can be suited in the wa
of climate in Brazil, unless he fancie
an Arctic temperature. At Par;
near the mouth of the Amazon, til
thermometer has an easy time of i
the mercury ncver getting bclo W 7
degrees Fahrenheit, and never abov
so. This is the case all the way II
the river. There are only two sea
sons there, tho wet and the dry. TIL
wet season commences in Noven
Der or December and lasts until Ma
or June. During this period it rain
almost necessarily, and the Lightning
is something terrific. In no part {
the globe is the rainfall so heavy
At Maranhoas the average annu;
rainfall is 25O inches! Think of il
Twenty feet of water every year, an
the most of it falls in the six month
of the rainy season.. The Dry seaso
is only dry in comparison, for eve
during this period an afternoon show
err is almost a daily occurrence. A
Para the people wonder if a day pas,
es without rain. AS you go south til