BRAZIL. 



STATEMENT SHOWING THE PRODUCTION OF RAW COTTON, IN MILLIONS OF POUNDS, FJROM 1831 

 TO 1878, BY PERIODS OF FIVE YEAES. 



IMPORTATION OF MERCHANDISE FROM BRAZIL INTO THE 

 UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, AND FRANCE, AND 



EXPORT THEREOF FROM THE 

 TRIES TO BRAZIL. 



LATTER THREE COTTN- 



The principal article of export from the 

 United States to Brazil being flour, we give 

 the particulars of shipments during thirteen 

 fiscal years: 



YEARS. Barrels. 



1869 384,134 



1870 376,217 



1871 

 1872 

 1873 



455,673 



408,648 



1874 531,879 



YEARS. 



Barrels. 



1876 536,180 



1877 432,209 



1878 616,182 



1879 717,377 



1880 537,914 



1881 677,702 



1875 599,8821 



An article produced in the province of Pa- 

 rand, of great importance in its traffic with 

 Montevideo, Buenos Ayr.es, and Valparaiso, 

 is Paraguay tea (Herva-Matte), of which that 

 province exported: 



So-called "central sugar-factories" (mines 

 centrales) are rapidly being introduced through- 

 out the sugar regions of Brazil, and promise to 

 do as good service as they do in Cuba and the 

 French West Indies and other cane-sugar pro- 

 ducing countries. One such factory, in the 

 province of Sao Paulo, we shall give some de- 

 tails about by way of example. This factory, 

 the Corapanhia Assucareira de Porto Feliz, be- 

 gan operations on October 28, 1878, and de- 

 clared a dividend for 1882 of Hi per cent. It 

 produced last year (1882) : 



5.729 bags of sugar, first quality ................... Ill 121 



M**, 8econ d quality ................ 8^600 



third quality .................. 20,102 



TWcasksof rum 



Milreis. 



Brought forward 178,918 



Sugar-house expenses, including cartage 



and ordinary labor 



Salaries to experienced operatives (en- 

 gineer, etc.) 12,180 



Canes purchased 92,756 



134,345 



Net proceeds of 1882's operations. , 



Total. 



178,918 



44,573 



The "Diario Official," of Rio de Janeiro, of 

 March 15, 1883, contains some interesting notes 

 relative to the development of cotton manufac- 

 ture in the South American empire, which may 

 prove of value to the manufacturers of cotton 

 machinery in this country. Nowhere, it seems, 

 can cotton be grown so advantageously as in 

 Brazil. Even at the present low price the 

 Brazilian cotton planters in some districts clear 

 an annual net profit on their cotton of twenty 

 per cent. Seventeen years ago cotton manu- 

 facture was still in its infancy in Brazil, for 

 there were then but nine mills, with 768 opera- 

 tives employed therein, 14,875 spindles, and 385 

 mechanical looms. Total horse-power (steam) 

 at the time, 36; water-power, ditto, 288; yards 

 of tissue turned out, 3,944,600 ; twist made, 126 

 tons. Yalue of total production in 1866, 1,166,- 

 200 milreis. At present there are 45 cotton- 

 mills. In the province of Eio de Janeiro there 

 is the Santo Aleixo, founded in 1849 ; has 7,000 

 spindles, 160 looms, 130 operatives ; makes 

 1,800,000 yards tissues, and 14 tons twist; 

 produces 400,000 milreis annually. Power, 

 50 horse, water. 



Brazil Industrial, 20,000 spindles, 450 looms, 

 560 horse-power, water ; 400 operatives ; prod- 

 ucts, 3,800,000 yards. 



Sao Pedro de Alcantara, at Petropolis, in 

 1874, with a capital of 150,000 milreis, 50 

 horse-power, water. Consumed the past seven 

 years altogether 30,479 bales of cotton; 130 

 operatives. Has dyeing department, dyeing 

 200 arrobes of twist per day. Production, 

 1,200,000 yards. 



Fabrica Petropolitana, also near Petropolis ; 

 founded in 1874, with a cash capital of 540,- 

 000 milreis; 120 horse-power, water; 5,600 

 spindles and 108 mechanical looms; 200 oper- 

 atives, drawing salary as to age, $1 to $9. Con- 

 sumes 500 tons Pernambuco cotton. Turns out 

 1,500,000 yards annually. 



The greatest amount of raw cotton exported 

 in any one year from Brazil was reached in 

 1872, when 78,517 tons were shipped, amount- 

 ing to 46,445,928 milreis. Now Brazil con- 

 sumes a great portion of its crop. 



