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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ge consign-ment of electric railway apparatus, and will be in fullcharge of construction, equipment and, temporarily, of theoperation of the system. He is accompanied by F. S. Italians, and a large number of German, French, Englishand American residents, and as a result of this foreignmixture there is less opposition to the introduction of for-eign customs and enterprise than is found with the peopleof the Portuguese and Spanish towns of South America.Many of the local enterprises, including the Sao PauloSteam Railroad Company, the mule tramway companyand the gas company, are all of English origin, though aconsiderable portion of their stock is held locally. The old town of Sao Paulo, which was founded in1554 by the Jesuits, was built upon a bluff, the sides ofwhich were quite steep. This part of the city is of smallextent, but in it are the chief business houses, especiallyof the retail dealers. The streets are narrow and crooked,but are well paved, and the sidewalks are kept in good
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Pearson, who will determine the main outlines of the in-stallation, locate power stations, etc. The State of Sao Paulo is the principal coffe producingState of Brazil, and is one of the leading and most popu-lous in the entire republic, the production of coffee beinga very profitable industry in this climate and under theconditions found here. Forty miles away from the citylies its seaport town, Santos, which gives the name to thecoffee produced in the State. The manufacturing indus-tries connected with the coffee trade and supplies for theState have been established in the city of Sao Paulo, whichhas thus become quite a manufacturing center. The cityis obliged to be largely self-supporting, as it is 240 milesaway from Rio de Janeiro, and is connected with a rail-road running through a hilly district not favorable for thetransportation of freight. The city is quite cosmopolitan, having about 70,000 Street Railway Joun order. Generally speaking, most of them are not, evenin this old to

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