El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-11

I valuable water powers. It has one on
| the Rio Sorccaba, which furnishes pow
er and light to the city of that name,
| and another on the Paranapanema,
which has a volume of 800 cubic yards
per second Many OF the chief towns of
/ Sac Paulo get their light and power
! from rivers nearby. This is so of San
! tos. CaInPinas, Amparo. Rio Clara, No
( coca and Rebeirao Preto.
Great Water Power Available.
There are a number of water powers
| of great extent on the Parana system,
which are in the Brazilian republic.
| The Urubupunga falls have a capacity
! OF 400,0 horsepower. and the falls of
! ISTaSsu and Guayra, on the borders of
/ Para quay. Will rival those of Niagara
and the Zambesi in their electric posi-
bilities-
Many claim that these falls are
greater than the Victoria falls of South
Africa, and some put them even in
advance Of Niagara. One Of the esti-
100000 horsepower can be produced
by the lguassu falls alone, and that
the Falls Of Guayra have an equal po
tentiality.
The Ivahy river at Rio Branco has
fail almost 800 feet high, and one fall
on the River Preto in the state of
GOyaZ Is 240 feet high The TOcantin
has falls Of zee feet. while those OF
Benevente and the Salto Grande on
the Jequitinhonha are each about $50
feet. The Onca falls of the Rio Grande
river are said to have potentiality of
100000 horsepower, while those, of
DOurado, on the Parnahyba, have 400,
600. In the state of Minas Cferaes
there are more than 200 waterfalls and
cascsd es that will generate CONNER
cial electricity, and the state Of Sac
PaulO claims TO have more than two
million horsepower as yet UndevelOped.
Could BE Turned Into Fortunes.
With an empire like that Of Brazil,
a country Of enormous resources en-
couraged by a protective tariff, it
would seem that these electrical posi-
bilItieS might be turned into fortunes.
Northern Brazil has more than 13
rivers upward of a thousand miles
long, and il has nine or ten that range
in length from 500 to 1000 miles. Nearly
all OF these rivers have waterfalls at
some POINTS in their course The names
of many of these streams are unknown
to the ordinary reader The 1tapicura
>is over 1000 miles long and the Parma
hyDa l. so miles longer They both
flow into the Atlantic ocean. The To-
cantins is sometimes called a tribu-
tary Of the Amazon, but that Is because
l. Flows through the Rio Para into the
Atlantic ocean, the same river also re-
ceiving some Of the water Of the ANA
zOn.
The AragJaya. which is one Of the
tributaries Of the Tocantins, is 1919
miles long or almost as long as the To-
caatins itself Either river, if stretched
upon the United States. would reach as
far as from Boston to Omaha The
River Purus, a tributary of the ANA
ION. would reach from Boston almost
to. Denver, and the Madeira would very
nearly go to salt Lake
Some Great Streams.
The Amazon proper is 3400 miles
long, and with its tributaries il has
naviEable waters of 10000 miles
which would Teach clear around the
world and leave enough over TO stretch
three times the distance between New
York ana Liverpool The Rio Negro,
which flows into the Amazon IS as
black as your hat, hence Its name. It's
waters mingling with those Of the
Amazon below the city Of Manaos, a