BRAZIL

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aqueous  arteries  the  transportation  problem  to
mills  and  markets  is  easily  solved  and  the
waterpower  can  be  used  in  preparing  the  timber ­
  for  shipping.
Brazil  has  at  present  more  local  factories
than  all  the  other  Latin  American  countries
combined,  forty  per  cent,  of  her  manufactured
articles  being  cotton  goods,  which  find  a  ready
market.  In  the  Federal  District  of  Rio  de
Janeiro,  five  of  these  mills  have  eight  thousand ­
  operatives,  producing  yearly  about  80,-000,000
  yards.  Petropolis  has  four  mills  and
Sao  Paulo  twenty-five  with  a  total  output  of
nearly  100,000,000  yards.  The  number  of  establishments ­
  in  this  industry  alone  amounts  to
3664,  giving  employment  to  168,760  hands,
with  a  total  yearly  output  of  275,000,000  yards
of  goods.
Of  late  the  shoe-making  industry  has  developed ­
  extensively.  In  1913  there  were  in
all  of  Brazil  4524  factories  employing  ten  or
more  operatives,  with  a  total  invested  capital
of  $18,857,000.  These  plants  are  nearly  all
operated  by  American  machinery,  many  of