Citizens of Sao Paulo, world's greatest coffee market, traveled out to see a great bastion last week, important concrete step in an engineering project that will soon connect Sao Paulo with Santos harbor, 50 miles away on the coast, and make a seaport of a city 2,400 ft. above sea level.
A. W. K. Billings, Canadian financier, is sponsor and backer of the project.
Engineers discovered that by cutting a canal only two and a half miles long through one of the mountain ridges separating Sao Paulo from the coast, water from various...
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