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Recife. This plant has four gins of 70 saws each. The system of 

 gins, condenser, press, etc., is the same as on the tAvo plants above. 

 The capacity is 35,000 kilos of seed cotton a day. An automatic 

 engine and a tubular boiler of 100 h.p. have been installed at this 

 plant, making a better power house. The seed obtained at this place 

 is consumed at Recife. This plant started ginning in 1920. 



Sape Gin Plant (State of Parahyba do Norte. — Is located at 

 the village of Sape, 46 kilometres from Parahyba (town). This plant is 

 identical to Limceiro gin plant and the oil mill next to it is in every 

 item equal to the oil mill at Garanhuns. This gin plant has been in 

 operation since 1920 and the oil mill has just started. 



Patos Gin Plant. — A gin plant and an oil mill of the same 

 type and size of the installations of Sape will be erected at Patos. 

 Part of the machines are already bought. 



SouzA Gin Plant.— A gin plant and oil )iiill identical to the Sape 

 gin and oil mill will be installed at Souza. The machinery for these 

 two plants is near to Souza and the buildings are going on. 



Nova Cruz Gin Plant (Rio Grande do Norte). — Is located at 

 140 kilometres from Natal, to which town it is connected by the 

 Great Western Railway. This plant is of same capacity of Sao 

 Caetano and Garanhuns. No oil mill will be installed at Nova Cruz, and 

 the seed obtained there will be shipped to Sape in Parahyba. This 

 plant is nearly finished. 



Iguatu Gin Plant (State of Ceara. — This plant is located on the 

 Estrada de Ferro de Baturite (railway), 413 kilometres from Fortaleza. 

 The capacity of this gin plant and oil mill is the same as Sape and Souza 

 installations. Both gin plant and oil mill are in operation. 



SoBRAL Gin Plant. — Is of the same size and type of Iguatu, 

 Souza and Sape. This gin plant is located in the north of the State 

 of Ceara, on the Sobral Railway, 125 kilometres from the port of 

 Camocim. The buildings are finished ])ut the machinery not erected 

 yet. 



Oil Mill at Pernambuco. — -The largest oil mill of the company 

 is located at Recife (Pernambuco). This plant is connected to every 

 railway line in the States of Alagoas, Pernambuco, Parahyba and Rio 

 Grande do Norte and by water and rails to Pernambuco docks. The 

 seed house has a capacity of 5.000 tons of seed and is equipped with 

 up-to-date machinery. The oil mill capacity is 40 tons of seed in 

 12 hours run. 



At the same place the comjjany installed a large plant for refining 

 30 tons a day of cotton seed oil received from the several oil mills, 

 and make compound lard, winter oil and soap, for home consumption 

 and export. The departments for refining oil (summer oil) and making 

 of soap are working already. 



The company has already in Pernambuco 14 railway freight cars 

 and four oil tank cars for the transport of cotton, cotton seed and 

 oil from the gin plants and oil mills up country. 



The "Sociedade Algodoeira do Nordeste Brazileiro," a 

 limited company registered as Cavalcanti & Co., Avith a capital of 



