The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-07

l. is now on 4 firm financial and in t
duetrlal basis The country has a /
constitution like ours The govern +
heht has three branches First = /
the legislative branch. consisting oi |
q chafnh Der Of deputies and a senate
corresponding to our Congress Then j
comes the executive whose. powers +
are exercised by the president OF the /
republic And third is the judicia.
branch constituted oy the supreme
court.
The Republic Of Brazil consists o,
twenty states and one territory SOM
OF these states are enormous. others
compare in size with the smaller
states Of the Union. although none i
As small as Maryland Anazonas
which includes the western half of
the Amazon basin is bounded on the
north by British Guiana. Venezuela
ana colombia. on the east are Co
iomDla ECua dor and Peru. It's south
ern boundary touches Bolivia
This state is one-fifth as large as
! the whole United States, including
| Alaska. It would make eien. states
| as big as Kansas or sixteen the sixe
OF Kentucky. Nevertheless, il does
not begin until hundreds Of miles
| east Of the Atlantic. and il has thou
sands of miles Of river navigation
fou can cross Amazonas on steamers
/ from east 70 west and the largest
| ocean vessels can come from the AT
| lantic to its capital, ManaoS which is
more than thousand miles from the
mouth OF the Amazon. Manaos has
3o,ooV population. Il has telephones
| electric lights. electric street cars and
a beautiful theater. Ii is great
| rubber port. Amazonas has some of
| the finest rubber forests on earth
Much of the country is low and COW
cred with woods. 1t has also high
lands 1t has a network of rivers.
many of which carry more or less
gold.
The big state east of Amazonas is
Para. This state is ten times the size
ot Pennsylvania and about eleven
times as big as Ohio. Virginia and
+ entucky. 1t comprises the eastern
part Of the Amazon basin, and it has
enc city, named Belem, which has
over 100 00G inhabitants Beem has
been one of the death spots Of the
world 1t has been noted for its vel
! low fever and other diseases but they
are now lnauSurating sanitary regu-
latlOnS like those that cleaned VI
Panama and it will eventually be as
safe as any tropical city. The tota
: population of the state of Para is no.
e half that of Greater Boston, while yol
could pull all the people who live il
2 AmaZonaS into Buffalo and still have
$ room for something like 10o,0 ,00t
more.
i Just south of these two states ant
S bOrdered on the west by Bolivia ant
n Paraguay is MattO Crosse, a great un
: developed region which is bound t
= boom in the near future. This state i
4 a vast plateau nine times as large a
either Illinois or Wisconsin and NOR
IS than six times as big as either Mime
q sofa or Kansas. 1t is in the tropics
IS but it is so high that it is healthy an'
n parts of it are already feeding mil
n lions of cattle. This country SO far i
o inaccessible by railroads. Its capital
l. Cuya ba, has to be reached from Ri
s. de Janeiro by travelling several thou
Is sand miles. The steamers go down t
> the mouth of the Rio de la Plata an
= thence up the Parana and Paraguay t
: AsunciOn. From there the trip is b
le smaller steamers up the Paraguay t
"a Cuyaba. When the railroad is com
~ pleted Cuyaba will be reached fror
IS the Atlantic as easily as Cleveland
n reached from New York. The dis
tances are the same. Then the train
will bring the Matto Crosse cattle t
,e the packing houses that are now bein
es erected for the purpose at Sac Pault
Of The state of MattO Crosse contain
d. more than half a million square miles
ar Americans who have frequently trav
as eled over it locating the railroa
I'd routes tell me the land is eXcellen
is The population of Matto Grosco is no
dS only twO-tenths of one person to tn
n square mile. You could drop its POI
ulatiOn into New York, Chicago
ry Philadelphia and neither city woul
ne notice the difference.
m Just east of this state is Goya
I'D where the future capital of II
ds country is to be located, plans haviT
he already been made to that en-
in Goyaz is the center of Brazil. Tt
re state is bigger than Texas, and i
ne population is just about one-tenth II
er size of the latter. A great part
OF the country is high and the land
wv rough. 1t is rich in minerals and
e. said to have iron by the hundreds
of millions of tons. 1t also yiel'
.es diamonds.
ar.
I'd One of the most interesting states
he Brazil is MinaS Geraes which is mo
than fOur times as big as New YOr