ng scenery
through which we were to pass.

[Illustration: Baron de Rio Branco.]

The Paulista Railway was interesting, as it was the first line in Brazil
constructed entirely with Brazilian capital. The line was begun in 1870,
but since that date several extensions have been successfully laid out.
Up to 1909 the lines owned and worked by the Paulista Railway were the
1.60-metre-gauge trunk line from Jundiahy to Descalvado (north of S.
Paulo), and the two branch lines of the same gauge from Cordeiro to Rio
Claro; Laranja Azeda to S. Veridiana; the two branch lines of 0.60 m.
gauge from Descalvado to Aurora and from Porto Ferreira to S. Rita do
Passo Quatro. Then they possessed the one-metre trunk line from Rio Claro
to Araraquara, with the following branch and extension lines: Visconde de
Rio Claro to Jahu; Araraquara to Jaboticabal; Bebedouro to Barretos; Mogy
Guasso Rincao to Pontal; S. Carlos to S. Euxodia and Rib. Bonita; Agudos
to Dois Corregos and Piratininga; and the loop line through Brotas. Of
the total charters for 1,114 kil. 261 have been granted by the Federal
Government and are under their supervision, whereas 583 kil. are under
charter granted by the State of Sao Paulo.

The following statistics taken from the last Brazilian Year Book show the
wonderful development of the passenger and goods traffic on the Paulista
Railway:--

-----+-----------+-----------+--------------+------------+------------
| | |Goods carried,| |
| | Passengers| including |Transport of|Baggage and
|Line open. | carried. | Coffee. | Animals. | Parcels.
-----+-----------+-----------+--------------+------------+------------
|Kilometres.| | Tons. | | Tons.
1872 | 38 | 33,531 | 26,150 | 4,919 | --
1890 | 250 | 348,150 | 300,857 | 5,768 | 2,613
1908 | 1,154 | 1,084,081 | 959,742 | 36,072 | 12,558
-----+-----------+-----------+--------------+------------+------------

At Jundiahy the Paulista Company has extensive repairing shops for
engines. Formerly they had there also shops for building carriages, but
these are now constructed at the Rio Claro Station, partly from material
which comes from abroad. The rolling stock of the Company is excellent in
every way--quite up-to-date, and kept in good condition--almost too
luxurious for the kind of passengers it has to carry.

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