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1,000,000 $000, head offices at Recife, Pernambuco, 234, Apollo 

 (2° andar), P.O.B. 187, has established similar modern ginning factories 

 as the preceding firm. 



Its establishments are situated at Timbauba. Rio Branco and 

 Limoeira in the State of Pernambuco, and at Santa Luzia in the State 

 of Parahyba. The Company has further obtained concessions for 

 the establishment of similar factories at Picuhy, Pombal and Sao 

 Joao de Cariry in the State of Parahyba. and at Alagoa do Monteiro 

 and Alagoa do Baixo in the State of Pernambuco. 



All these concessions stipulate that in connection with a ginning 

 factory, an experimental cotton plantation must be worked and that 

 good seed has to be delivered free to all the growers of the district 

 who apply for it. 



The State, in consideration of these undertakings, grant con- 

 siderable concessions in the rate of export tax, local taxation, and 

 allows machinery to be imported free of charge. 



This company is closely connected with the cotton merchanting 

 firm of Pinto, Alves & Co., Pernambuco. Besides attending to the 

 ginning, the firm has established a separate road constructing 

 department, which undertakes this kind of work on behalf of the 

 Government, receiving a fixed percentage on all outlays. The 

 technical manager, Eng™.- J. F. Branduo Cavalcanfi , is one of the 

 most hard-working men I had the pleasure of meeting in Brazil, and 

 he knows the country thoroughly, having been one of the first advo- 

 cates of the construction of motor roads throughout the North- 

 eastern part of Brazil. I am indebted to him for a good deal of 

 information. 



Quite an extensive omnibus service is run by this company and 

 excellent schools have been established in connection with the many- 

 sided undertakings of the firm. 



There is a third firm which owns a very modern ginning factory, 

 viz., 'The Companhia Parahybana de Prensagem e Beneficiamento 

 DE Algodao" at Campina Grande. The cotton export firm of Wharton, 

 Pedroza & Co., is largely interested in this concern. 



Though Compina Grande is not in the heart of the cotton growing 

 district, it is a large cotton emporium where a considerable portion 

 of the Serido cotton is sold and put on the railways. 



There is little difference between the new ginning factories just 

 described, except that in the Campina establishment there is a high- 

 power bale press of Messrs. David Bridge & Co., Ltd., of Castleton, 

 Lancashire, turning out bales of a density of from 50 to 601bs. per 

 cubic foot, whilst the other two companies do not possess high density 

 bale presses. 



The "Companhia Industrial de Algodao e Oleos " does not buy 

 cotton, but merely gins " on commission " : it buys cotton seed. The 

 other two concerns buy the seed cotton. 



