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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



the industries increase, until, in San .Paulo, Parana, Santa Catharina 

 and Rio Grande do Sul, they reach their maximum variety and highest 

 development. Rich in promise for the future is the immense western 

 state of Matto Grosso, across which a new railroad line has recently 

 been surveyed, to connect the railroads of San Paulo on the east with 

 those of Bolivia on the west. Matto Grosso sends to this exposition 



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The Minas Geeaes Building. 



A stately and solidly constructed building, expressing the power and wealth of the 



great central State. It was designed by the Brazilian architect, Rebecchi. 



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specimens of its sugar and farina and rice and corn ; of its herbs ; and of 

 its woods, including the famous quebracho and shows, by means of 

 photographs, some of its great herds of cattle. The state now has 



