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Show GREAT OPPORTUNITIES IN BRAZIL. American Industries is a magazine published by the Manufacturers' Manufac-turers' Association of the United States and is devoted, in part, to encouraging: the expert trade of this country. The last issue contains con-tains an article on Brazil, pointing out the opportunities for American Amer-ican capital. At the present time, Brazil unquestionably offers a field for the employment of capital that should not be overlooked. The country is vast; the resources are bo far undreamed of, and conditions for industrial development are excellent. To many persons Brazil is but the name of "one of those South American republics," and they have not realized the size of the land, nor the extent to which commerce com-merce has already been carried. A country that is 150,000 square miles greater than the United States of America may be considered as worthy of attention; the fact that its population has risen from ten millions in 1889 to twenty-two millions last year is sufficient to convince one that there is some mighty driving power behind it all and the further interesting official statement that the imports of the country representing its purchasing power in cash have nearly more than doubled in five years' time. As an instance of the openings apparent, it may be stated that any American company which would establish a factory for the manufacture of rubber goods at either Manaos or Para would almost al-most at once find an outlet for its production. This market would be not alone in Brazil, but throughout the world. Brazil itself im-. im-. ports an enormous quantity of finished rubber goods, and in all eras it has seemed to economists that the importation of finished goods of any kind by a country that has already produced and exported the crude material is an unnecessary waste.. At this writing. Brazil ia buying her rubber bottles, gloves, tubing and what not in Europe, while she is at the same time supplying the world with raw rubber! Freight rates to Europe and America are cheap, and so far at least the Brazilian temperament has shown itself unalterably opposed to anything averse to pure democracy in the relations between the employer and employed.. To those who have been familiar with the situation in Brazil, the labor problem does not exist. Curiously enough, one of the greatest sources of wealth of the Brazilian Republic has never been made use of, nor so far has the least effort been made to bring out even a fraction of the value that lies in the fibre producing plants that abound in every section of the vast country. Hemp has played a remarkable part in the history his-tory of tho world, and from the earliest times rope has been a part of almost every human effort. Throughout Brazil there is fibre in plenty, and much that will produce a far finer quality of cordage than any hemp that ever left the East. Everywhere are there malvaceas, a fibre producing plant that is without a peer for the production of rope, and there is but one small factory in the state of Sao Paulo, and this is far from up to date. Since the Portuguese first settled in Brazil there have been a few snips cable made from the plant, and the way is open today for an industry that will rival anything the country has produced in the way of financial returns. Curiously enough malvacea is a sort of connecting link between the hemp and the jute, and its fibres run-mg run-mg up-to nino and ten feet in length, are nlso of great value in the manufacture of paper. As to the quantity of this remarkable plant arfJSi? be4f04,ln Braril U has been said that did Brazil possess wouldIaeiltt?nUlar to.l?hft1.of the Austrlian Colonies, the plant Stent SLi S6 pr08cnbe.d ?nd be subi to a regular, per-CMttaLW per-CMttaLW ft'tl 113 "minatiou i some district,. a. 6TC?haf10 Is another plant that is remarkable for the tensi1o sntfn" tZl7 tCStS !TT EWVhat . SatS b-Ta "h 11 tike all tw U vqnal t0 ?,t0 threc- The European market r ton fnt 1 Can PreParcd tor shipment at a price of SOO Uv Cu Uv Uou "fat V"4 frm $6 10 3100 -"ond qual tage h b?3T beenwcAmed t0, a Pt where advan--hluld si! in,VeSt0r wh0 -ordage, a fortr J ? se? cE ?S n f a ralIy exccllent ivn.:-. . ms towait Should any company consider cul- V |