The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22
By j. l.. w.
Continued from last week.

green, having more or less of
yellow tinge as the coffee grows
older.
What follows will give you
some of the electric possibilities of
Brazil that will eventually make
the country a great industrial en-
pire. There are many great water
falls; the country is full of them,
and almost every state has enor-
nous possibilities in the way of
hydro, electric development. A
general idea of Brazil is that the
country is flat, while the truth is it
is made up of mountains and high
lands, and even outside of the
Amazon it has some of the most
wonderful falls of our hemisphere.
Many of the cities are already
lighted and moved by such falls.
This is so with Rio de Janeiro,
whose lights can be seen by the
steamers several hours before they
come into the harbor. Those lights
are generated by falls fifty miles
away in the Organ mountains.
They not only light Rio but supply
light and power to the surround
ing country. The city of Sac
Paulo, the metropolis of southern
Brazil, gets it's electric power from
the river Tiel. 1t comes from an
hydraulic plant that is situated
about twenty miles away. There
in the distance of less than one
half mile the Tiel river falls about
thirty-five feet, and this fall is by
means of dams; and electric gener-
ators are supplying both light and
power to a town of about 10000
inhabitants. The concession be-
longs to and is run by Canadian
and United States citizens.
Between Sac Paulo and Salto de
Ito the Tiel River has falls where,
in rapids 100 feet long, $4,000
horsepower can be generated. And
lower still are other falls which are
now reached by the Brazilian
Northwestern Railway. Many of
the chief towns of the state of Sac
Paulo get their light and power
from rivers near by. There are
also number of water powers Of
great extent on the Parana system.
Some of the largest tributaries of
which are the Brazilian republic.
The falls of Iguasse and Guayra on
the borders of Paraguay, will
rival those of Niagara and the
Zambesi in their electric possibili-
ties. Many claim that these falls
are greater than the Victoria Falls
of South Africa, and some put
them IN advance of Niagara.
There are many other great
cataracts besides those l have men
toned. The Irahy river at Rio
Branco has a falls of about 300
feet high, and one fall on the
river Preto, in the state of Goyaz,
is 24O feet high. In the state of
Minas Geraes it is claimed there
are more than 200 waterfalls and
cascades that will generate elec-
tricity, and the state of Sac Paulo
claims to have more than 2, 1000, 900
horsepower as yet undeveloped.
With an empire like that of Bra
zil, country of enormous re-
sources encouraged by protective
tariff, it would seem that the elec-
trical possibilities might be turned
into fortunes. Northern Brazil
has about fifteen rivers more than
900 miles long. It has many
others that range in length from
5000 miles to 1000 miles. Nearly
all of these have waterfalls at some
point in their course. The names
of many of these rivers are un-
known to me. The Amazon prop
er is 3.4OO miles long, and with its
tributaries it has navigable waters
of 80, 900 miles. The Araguaya,
which is one of the many tribu-
taries is 1000 miles long. The
river Puris, a tributary, is 1900