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turbine (Chalmers) of 2,500 h.p. has been lying at the Pedra mill 

 since the death of Mr. Delmiro Gouveia, which took place three years 

 ago. The foundations for this new extension have been built and 

 provision has been made for three such additional turbines of 25,000 h.p. 

 Comparatively little additional work for directing the water channel 

 to this new power station is required. The ultimate scheme of the 

 present owners of this waterfall is to construct altogether a hydro- 

 electric plant of 200.000 h.p. The site selected is certainly well 

 situated as a building could be constructed between the walls of the 

 two rocks. So far, 2,779,105 $720 have been spent on the hydro- 

 electric plant, but the last turbine of 2,500 h.p. has not yet been 

 erected. 



Part View of the Paulo Affonso Falls with Power Station on right side 



The sewing thread mill is so far the only industrial undertaking 

 which obtains its electricity from these falls. Of course the village 

 of^Pedra is also illuminated with electric light from this plant. 



The mill at Pedra has 20 ring frames, each 360 spindles and about 

 6,000 doubling spindles. All the machinery is from Messrs. Dobson & 

 Barlow's and was erected between 1913 and 1915. About 6,000 sacks 

 of 64 kilos of Serido cotton, measuring 35 to 38 mm. in length is being 

 consumed and up to 80's are spun from it. The cotton used is put in 



