22 SELLING LATIN AMERICA 
them under American superintendents, the de 
mand for American equipment being suf 
ficiently large to warrant the big shoe ma 
chinery and shoe-finding houses of New Eng 
land 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 pre 
cious and semi-precious stones. Among the 
semi-precious stones to be found are achroite, 
actinolite, agates, amethysts, analcime, anatase, 
andalusites, anthophyelite, apophyllite, apa 
tite, aquamarines, cymophane, citune, colum- 
bite, desemine, iolite, jasper, opals, ruby, sap 
phires, 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