The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-07
The New World Of Brazil
Graphic Description of The Fourth LARGEST
Country On Earth

from Cape Cod to the Golden Gate |
ne Amazon has 100 tributaries i'm |
aadluon TO the River Of Doubt which
theodore Roosevelt has exposed to the
world. The main stream and the trib-
utarles nave over thirty thousand
miles OF navlgable waterways If you
could conlno them in one canal start
ing at San Francisco they would go
clear around the world and leave
enough over to reach on to China.
But the Amazon is only one Of the
rivers Brazil has score of others
outside the Amazon basin the length
Of which added together would give
q total waterway amounting to 80 0Go
miles. 1t has some rivers a thousand
miles long. the names of which are
not known to the man on the street
The Parnahyba is longer than from
New York to Chicago. and the Ara
suary would reach from Chicago to
New Orleans. The Parana, which is
part of the Brazilian system. is as
long as from Boston TO Salt Lake, and
the Rio Sac Francisco has a length
Of 1920 miles. and you may ride upon
| 1t in steamships for days. Some OF
these rivers have mighty waterfalls
The Sac Francisco has one drop OF
Z6S feet, or 100 feet more than that
of Niagara. The IguaZu Falls are
| said to SurpaSS those of Iambesi in
South Africa. and in the state of Sac
| PaulO alone there are 2 100000 horse
power in the yet undeVciOped cas-
| cadeS The length of the ISuazu is
1872 miles. the Itapicuru flows $50
| miles. the JuguininOh measures $40
| miles. The DOce. or Sweet river if
ii could be lifted to our country would
reach from Washington to Cleveland.
This world of Brazil is one Of enor-
| nous resources. and its crops include
| almost every product that grows upon
| Gods green earth. The highlands ere
| temperate, and they will raise wheat
and corn. The loWlands are tropical
and fitted for sugar and tobacco
while between them we have the vast
coffee fields that tickle the stomach
and Stlffen the backbone of the nu-
man race every morning. The coffee
plantations cover more than 5000, 0O(
acres. The cattle number something
like 30.000,OO0. and the pCSsihilitie:
in cotton, cacaO. sugar and tobacco
are enormous. The country is grow
) ing in manufactures. The capita
) already invested in industrials i
something like a quarter of a billio1
dollars, and of this the cotton fac
r tories alone have a capital Of $50.
600 900 and more. There are 10
e cotton mills now working.
! Many of the brazilian industrie
j are operated with foreign money, an,
:, the country is open to Americans a
j | never before. The amount of fOreig1
n capital already invested is more tha
e eleven hundred million dollars, and t
n this must be added a half billion dol
h lars in Brazilian stocks and bonds
: The amount invested in railroad
: alone is estimated at over $225.0O0
veyed and some are under construc
ton. At present the state of Rio d
. JaneirO and parts of Sac Paulo an
Minas GeraeS only are well served b
: rail, and tens Of thousands of mile
: of new tracks will be required to ope
" the country.
~ In the future I shall write as to tn
- timber lands and mineral resource
- of Brazil The country has some {
~ the greatest forests yet uneXploitet
= The woods of the Amazon alone cove
1000, 900 square miles, a territory
- great as two-thirds Of the Unite
- States proper. There are pine fores
20 in southern Brazil, and the highland
a of Matto Crosse have wood lands i,
- termixed with their pastures.
- The mineral regions of the count1
20 are practically unprospected. Tt
republic contains everything fro
pc gold and diamonds to iron ar
~ graphite. Almost 100000 poun,
:. =. Of gold have been taken out of IL
?: mines and gold is known to exist
10 10 nearly every one of the states. The
!. is town in MattO Crosse where t,
= boys look for gold in the cutters aft
50 the rains, and on the highlands
40 Minas Geraes, the gold mines are no
eS playing we'll. Brazil has enormous d
posits Of iron, an option on some
'u which is now held by the millionair
w of the steel trust. The Southern Sta
o. one of the fine diamonds diScOvere
os weighed 254 carats. 1t is now t
property of an Indian prince.
e. Brazil is the baby among the dem
no cratic governments of the world.
he became a republic only thirty-fi
f. years ago, at about the time tn
a Garfield was elected President of t
is United States Its constitution w
IN | made as late as 1891 Shortly aft