. Cassier's magazine . LOCOMOTIVE SHEDS, SANTA MARIA STATION THE RAILWAYS OF BRAZIL 19 companys line, the South WestBrazilian, runs north from SantaMaria through Cruz Alta to PassoFundo. An extension to the upperUruguay river, which is the frontierstream between Rio Grande andSanta Catharina, has been built bythe present lessees. This line crossesthe upper Uruguay opposite its con-fluence with the Rio de Peixe, aSanta Catharina stream, where itjoins the Sao Paulo & Rio GrandeRailway. Besides these inner lines, there Argentine line, which belongs to theArgentine North Eastern Railway,runs from
. Cassier's magazine . LOCOMOTIVE SHEDS, SANTA MARIA STATION THE RAILWAYS OF BRAZIL 19 companys line, the South WestBrazilian, runs north from SantaMaria through Cruz Alta to PassoFundo. An extension to the upperUruguay river, which is the frontierstream between Rio Grande andSanta Catharina, has been built bythe present lessees. This line crossesthe upper Uruguay opposite its con-fluence with the Rio de Peixe, aSanta Catharina stream, where itjoins the Sao Paulo & Rio GrandeRailway. Besides these inner lines, there Argentine line, which belongs to theArgentine North Eastern Railway,runs from Monte Caseros, oppositeQuarahim, to Libres, opposite Uru-guayana; Alvear, opposite Itaquy,and San Tome, opposite Sao Brazil Great Southern Rail-way is, therefore, building an ex-tension to this latter place. BeyondSan Tome the Argentine line runsdue north, and is, therefore, less ofa menace to Brazil. Along the east coast the lines arenot continuous, as thev are in the. CONSTRUCTION WORK ON THE RIO GRANDE RAILWAY are frontier ones, both along theeastern and western frontiers. The western line, which belongsto the Brazil Great Southern Rail-way, follows the Uruguay riverfrom Quarahim, in the south, throughUruguayana to Itaquy. It is more astrategical line than anything else,and will run northward along thestream as far as does the Argen-tinian line, on the opposite bank. Itseems a waste, in a country whererailways are still so scarce, that thereshould be a railway line upon eitherbank of a navigable river. The west. There is a line north of PortoAlegre to Caxias, the present ter-minal, with an eastern branch fromNeustadt to Taquara, close to thecoast. The . main P. A. U. Rail-way line also branches off this Caxiasline in Montenegro. South of Porto Alegre the lake ex-tends to Rio Grande, whose harbour,though in deep water, has littletraffic, owing to a bar across itsmouth. A French company has beenfloated to cut a canal through thebar and throw the har
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