22  SELLING  LATIN  AMERICA

them  under  American  superintendents,  the  demand ­
  for  American  equipment  being  sufficiently ­
  large  to  warrant  the  big  shoe  machinery ­
  and  shoe-finding  houses  of  New  England ­
  in  maintaining  their  own  offices  and  carry
their  own  stock  in  the  larger  cities  devoted  to
this  business.
Brazil  is  wonderfully  rich  in  mines  of  precious ­
  and  semi-precious  stones.  Among  the
semi-precious  stones  to  be  found  are  achroite,
actinolite,  agates,  amethysts,  analcime,  anatase,
andalusites,  anthophyelite,  apophyllite,  apatite, ­
  aquamarines,  cymophane,  citune,  columbite,
  desemine,  iolite,  jasper,  opals,  ruby,  sapphires, ­
  spinel,  topaz,  tourmalines.  There  are
many  deposits  of  minerals,  such  as  copper,
iron,  silver,  gold,  arsenic,  barium,  bismuth,
cinnabar,  cobalt,  galena,  manganese,  nickel,
platinum,  tin,  and  wolframite.  There  are  also
rich  veins  of  asbestos,  coal,  soapstone,  sulphur,
salt,  marble,  mica,  and  evidences  of  petroleum.
Gold  has  been  mined  in  Brazil  for  over  300
years,  the  principal  deposits  being  in  the  State
of  Minas  Geraes.  A  mine  near  the  Honario