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Spanish engineering
Nov., 1880,]
Spanish Engineering.
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upper waters on account of their great distance from the coast market. The " Dora Pedro Segrenda" Railway is reaching out toward this region by an extension. Quite recently it was opened to Barbecena,. about three hundred miles from Rio de Janeiro, a point within a hundred miles of the head waters of the San Francisco. Since the Emperor's visit to the United States, in the Centennial year, during which he made numerous observations all over our country, he is more than ever inclined to encourage the development o f Brazil, not only by railways, but by the improvement of her rivers and harbors, but at the present time the resources of Brazil are so tied up. by obligations previously incurred that not much can be applied in new directions. Coffee and sugar are the two principal products 7 cotton, since the United States resumed its supremacy as a cotton raiser, has not been very profitable here, and but little is now grown. Slavery still exists, although by an Imperial decree all children born of slave parents, since 1871, are free. Many years must elapser as the law now stands, ere Brazil would be free, but it is more tharr probable that other laws will b e enacted hastening the perio& An effort has been made (by the late ministry) to inaugurate a system o f Chinese coolie labor, and an ambassador was sent to China for the purpose of negotiating some arrangement in that connection. It will fail, either in its ~incipiency, or in its trial, if ever tried. The slave owners must teach their slaves how to be free. Brazil is not ~ country to "settle up" by immigration, like the United States ; the introduction of a foreign population into this country is destined to. be only very gradual.
Spanish ~ . n g i n e e r i n g . - - T h e success o f Director-General Ibanezr in his Spanish triangulation, has led to applications for his assistance in other fields of labor. H e has lately vlsited:Paris on business connected w i t h the international committee of weights and measures, of which he is the president, and he is about going to Switzerland to. make t h e necessary preparations for the measurement of a base line with his apparatus. This arrangement is the result of diplomatic negotiations between the Swiss a n d Spanish governments, and it involves a permission to employ such members of his engineering corps as Senor Ibanez may desire. The Spanish journals manifest a justifiable pride in the honors which have thus been eoaferred upoi~ one o f their leading engineers.--Za Gaceta Industrial. C~
Spanish Engineering.
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upper waters on account of their great distance from the coast market. The " Dora Pedro Segrenda" Railway is reaching out toward this region by an extension. Quite recently it was opened to Barbecena,. about three hundred miles from Rio de Janeiro, a point within a hundred miles of the head waters of the San Francisco. Since the Emperor's visit to the United States, in the Centennial year, during which he made numerous observations all over our country, he is more than ever inclined to encourage the development o f Brazil, not only by railways, but by the improvement of her rivers and harbors, but at the present time the resources of Brazil are so tied up. by obligations previously incurred that not much can be applied in new directions. Coffee and sugar are the two principal products 7 cotton, since the United States resumed its supremacy as a cotton raiser, has not been very profitable here, and but little is now grown. Slavery still exists, although by an Imperial decree all children born of slave parents, since 1871, are free. Many years must elapser as the law now stands, ere Brazil would be free, but it is more tharr probable that other laws will b e enacted hastening the perio& An effort has been made (by the late ministry) to inaugurate a system o f Chinese coolie labor, and an ambassador was sent to China for the purpose of negotiating some arrangement in that connection. It will fail, either in its ~incipiency, or in its trial, if ever tried. The slave owners must teach their slaves how to be free. Brazil is not ~ country to "settle up" by immigration, like the United States ; the introduction of a foreign population into this country is destined to. be only very gradual.
Spanish ~ . n g i n e e r i n g . - - T h e success o f Director-General Ibanezr in his Spanish triangulation, has led to applications for his assistance in other fields of labor. H e has lately vlsited:Paris on business connected w i t h the international committee of weights and measures, of which he is the president, and he is about going to Switzerland to. make t h e necessary preparations for the measurement of a base line with his apparatus. This arrangement is the result of diplomatic negotiations between the Swiss a n d Spanish governments, and it involves a permission to employ such members of his engineering corps as Senor Ibanez may desire. The Spanish journals manifest a justifiable pride in the honors which have thus been eoaferred upoi~ one o f their leading engineers.--Za Gaceta Industrial. C~