It is extremely fertile the soil of the municipality of Peçanha, where produces every sort o plantation of farming. Its climate is suave and healthy. The agriculture produces coffee, corn, beans, rice, sugar cane, tobacco, manioc, potatoes, yams and fruit.

The harvest of coffee of the municipality is already calculated in more than sixty thousand "arrobas" [15 kilograms].

The lands of the municipality are excellent for the culture of cotton.

There are beautiful waterfalls that are useful for to moving factories of fabric and any other ones. In the municipality there are still great extensions of unoccupied lands of premium quality, as: in the left side of the Suaçuí Grande, the woods of Poaia and, in the right side of the same river, in the district of Figueira, and also the unexplored lands, that stay in the left side o the Sweet River [Rio Doce], below of Figueira, where runs the Laranjeiras River, that are still inhabited by the savage.

In its woods one find great viriety of medicinal plants, as the Poaia, the Copaibeira, the Jaracatiáthe a Quinathe a Carqueja, and many other ones that it would be long to enumerate; as also excellent wood for construction and joinery; as also dying trees.

The sauba ant is a calamity, maybe the greater that counts the agriculture of the municipality, mainly in the localities.

The greatest breeding of the municipality is the swine, of which all the farmers treat in general, with much profit, having also many breeders of bovine e equine cattle. Many farmers take care of apiculture, but in a manner that it impedes them of reaching the advantageous aims that it provides to others that look after it, with the due attention; nevertheless they take advantage exporting hundreds of "arrobas" [15 kilograms] of wax, in candles.

If it was not the lack de method and care, much bigger result they could obtain of such an important breeding, and well acclimated in this place.

This municipality is admittedly auriferous, and with fundament one might assert that it disposes of great reserves of minerals already not explored.

INDUSTRY

It possesses a great number of sugar-mills moved by water and animals, where is produced "cachaça" [sugar-cane brandy], sugar and "rapaduras" [blocks of raw brown sugar]; there are two iron factories, whose minerals are inexhaustible and of first order, some mills to sawing woods, and two or three mills to pounding coffee, of little importance.

Its commerce of exportation already is of some importance, consisting in the production of lard and coffee, that one exports to Ouro Preto, from where one imports salt, and the foreign goods, from the market-place of Rio de Janeiro. It is not served by railways and neither by telegraphic lines.