. Brazilian cotton; being the report of the journey of the International cotton mission through the cotton states of São Paulo, Minas Geraes, Bahia, Alagôas, Sergipe, Pernambuco, Parahyba, Rio Grande do Norte. Cotton growing. 36 BRAZILIAN COTTON turbine (Chalmers) of 2,500 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 Comparatively little additional work for directing the water channel to this new
. Brazilian cotton; being the report of the journey of the International cotton mission through the cotton states of São Paulo, Minas Geraes, Bahia, Alagôas, Sergipe, Pernambuco, Parahyba, Rio Grande do Norte. Cotton growing. 36 BRAZILIAN COTTON turbine (Chalmers) of 2,500 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 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 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 has not yet been 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. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original International Federation of Cotton and Allied Textile Industries. International Cotton Mission to Brazil; Pearse, Arno S. , 1872-. [Manchester, Eng. , Printed b
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