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 tim 
ber 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 thou 
sand 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 es 
tablishments 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 de 
veloped 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