Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-04
40 PAU[0, CITY
Of MODERN IDEAS
generous and Beautiful
fI c.pitaI of Richest OF
prszil's 20 States.

scens ,,,orninQ aroma from millions
Of ue .,ro coffee cups all over the
o ~ord, remarks bulletin rom ON me snt
Bennington headquarters OF the Ma
' Nas Geographic society.
iona paulo, the city, is the pros
Sa0 and beautiful capital OF the
p gsssst Of Brazil's 20 states. me ci.s
neDs ssvf million people. The state
nss s ~ paulo Is larger than all New
q Ss0 and Pennsylvania combined.
tns .amnrIses only one-thirty-second
:, Brazil's vast area, but con-
, pd, one-eighth of the country 8
population ,.,.ou :. seams MS If the
.a had two major products, coffee
..ssd-satistics! Its aggregate acre
'us :, coffee trees exceeds the COM
~ oreas of Delaware and Rhode
UNA There are more than seven
i' sxas trees in the state for every man,
'Oa ssr and child in the United States.
!. On cents a pound. the world pays
A. a panic about $40, 100000 annual
:, Sat tor her /, 135, 100000 pounds of cof-
y. nroduced. AS specialized whole
ssp grocery her coffee business Is
s ~ he compared with Cuba's sugar
crop.
Geography, religion and romance
,,s strangely blended In Sac Paulo's
s.sss Solomon, for all his wisdom,
overlooked potential source OF great
ro.,tb for coffee Is generally be-
u.ved TO have originated in Abyssinia,
rhar, solomon's descendants reign to
Al, day 1t was not introduced into
Brazil until 1923.
"A Portuguese sailor was the Cap
tsu John Smith of Sac Paulo. He
married. the South American Poca-
boutss daughter OF the chieftain IT,
brica That was about 1900. Then
ame Jesuit missionaries, who are &C
credIted founders Of the state, and
when they celebrated their first mass
On tbe anniversary of the conversion
Of St. Paul they named the country
for that apostle.
Corn and Potato Move North.
"Curiously enough, coffee rules In
Brazil, while two indigenous South
American crops, corn and the Irish
notato are mainstays in North Amer
lea.
"Sao Paulo. the city, Is purposefully
modern, so much so that some OF the
social and engineering projects were
put into effect there while they were
still paper programs In North Amer
lea.
For years now, when a new school
house Is built in Sac Paulo, the school
physicians have passed upon the light
ing, the kinds of seats to be used and
other hyglenic details. Indeed, they
must even approve the type and its
spacing In textbooks before they are
adopted
AN unusual sight Of the city Is the
snake farm. The snakehouses, looking
like beehives, cover a large tract.
The snakes are the sources of serum
used to treat sufferers from the bites
Of rattlesnakes, the deadly jaracas,
and other venomous reptiles.
"The railroad from Sac Paulo to
Santos, the worlds foremost coffee
port, is famous among engineers the
world over. There is drop Of 2,6O0
feet In seven miles over one section
Steel cables, stationary engines and
especlally-equipped locomotives are
required for the 35-mile run between
the two cities. There are 13 tunnels,
but the trains emerge from each to
disclose some surprising new piano.
rama of wooded mountain, valley of
banana or coffee trees, torrential
stream or gorge of dizzy depth.
The road is said to be one of the
oest-paying in the world. Since the
dividends are limited by law, its
earnings have gone into sumptuous
stations, fine rolling stock and per-
lected equipment until one visitor re-
marked that all remaining to be done
was the gliding of the tops of the
telegraph poles.
Peculiar Geography.
The steep railroad climb from San
Jos to Sac Paulo gives a hint to the
peculiar geography of the state. For
nearly 400 miles along Its coast is a
lOw belt, narrow In the north and
S'uening to about eighty miles In the
sOuth. Here the weather is hot and
inola and the crops are bananas, CO.
,Onu1s' vanilla beans and cacso. This
.O"iand Is marked by line Of hills,
oack OF which is an undulating pla-
ssau, cooler and dryer, where the cof-
''e nnds ideal growing conditions.
gao Paulo is notable for its varied
ranging from chalet
spes' Moorish palaces and buildings
', .ne French Renaissance period to
s.' uefn ONCE structures. It's outlying
w'. se's are as plenteously planted
, w,sa trees and as well interpreted
w., nsh nower-planted parks as Washing
49,, Inc port of Santos Is given over
saas ,'paiiy TO shipping, but lacks the
s > s OF many older ports. 1t has
n. seaatlrul beach, where the sand Is
dr,~S so hard that automobiles may
'' a,r, TO the waters edge.
Will. 1ne city has a remarkable theater,