Show air mail grows in south america sao paulo coffee center now gets service sio paulo capital and busl business nes metropolis of sao paulo state Is one of the lite hect t cities te to be enmeshed by the network of air mall routes filch are spreading over the south american amerlean republic the trip from rio 1 de janeiro to sao batilo takes tales 12 hours by rill mil the air arill schedule calls f for n three hour trip between the two cities sao I 1 ulo Is one of the oldest cities in south america says a bulletin from ie ile national geographic society I 1 but its age has not deprived it 11 of modern commercial development boom started in in 1875 years before the capt john smith pocahontas episode at jamestown Jame n I 1 a a portuguese bailor sailor founded sao paulo and married the tile daughter of a dative indian chief later jesnia ws lo narles fished a church at the settlement and held the erst first religious service on the feia day in celebration of the conversion of st paul hence the name of the city sio paulo which means st SL paul for three centuries sao paulo enjoyed isolation unfettered by co londal laws of 0 portugal it was about 1000 nilles miles from the guese government officials who were a at t that time at bahia in 1873 tbs th ba ball 0 1 01 yes ress started rolling among the in habitants hibi tants and newcomers were in stilled with a boom spirit in slightly more than 50 W years the city has increased in population from to more than half halt a million new streets that were built were made broad and straight and linked with modern buildings the railway depot and state government buildings building s mu libraries schools and some of its new business buildings mould be flattering additions to many cities of the world or of the same size three huge hue public gardens and more than BO 50 break the mo of the miles of streets city bolat coffet coffell built sao paulo might properly he be called the tile city that coffee built many of the palatial resl resi denas deneLs are those of coffee barons in bao sao paulo streets huge trucks heavy carts and Per perspiring men meu laden with sacks of coffee are always within eyeshot coffee was not in trod reduced into brazil until two cen aurles ago but the price of coffee now largely governs the rise and fall of sao paulos prosperity we ethiopia is the tile original home of c coffee offee sao paulo state has adopted lie the greater portion of the descend ants of the original coffee bearle if all the coffee plantations in the state tate 9 were in one plantations it would cour coer on an area as fig large as delaware and rhode bland wand corn coul blued in a single year more than 0 one ne and a quarter million pounds of coffee are produce la in the state there are more than seven coffee co ff ee trees for very maa man woman and child in the state |