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Updated: May 11, 2025
In these regions of difficult access and few resources it is necessary to dispense with complicated apparatus, and one might in such a case, it would seem, try electric motors, whose installation would be easy. An exploitation in accordance with these ideas was begun for the first time in 1883 upon the Ribeirao de Inferno at Portao de Ferro. We shall describe it.
A narrow pass between two hillsides was the portao or gate, and all within, along the wooded banks of the stream, was enchanted ground. The hill underneath which we were encamped was the enchanter's abode, and she gravely told us she often had long conversations with him.
This experiment was at all events of such a nature as to indicate the use of these machines in cases where the arrangement of the locality absolutely necessitates a transmission of power. The first workmen reached Portao de Ferro December 15, 1882, and the material shipped from France did not arrive until April 25, 1883.
There were thus constructed at Portao de Ferro a few kilometers of roads, then some houses for the engineers and special workmen, barracks for 200 laborers, stores, kitchens, etc., a forge, and a shop with a lathe and a saw run by a wheel at the side.
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