The nearest railroad is the Bahia and Minas, in Teófilo Ottoni, at the distance of twenty eight to thirty leagues, by a new road, that the government of Affonso Penna ordered the opening, with which was made the expense of a hundred and twelve "contos de reis", not being properly finished, what is for one to lament.

Peçanha is distant from Belo Horizonte more or less sixty leagues. The municipal budget amounts to twenty five "contos de reis", more or less.

The city is situated in the headwaters of the stream denominated Emparedado, and is, by the South, surrounded by a mountain that stays a lot superior to it; at East stays the "Alto do Cruzeiro", that is the best promenade, so we may call it, deservedly, as the "Corcovado" of Peçanha; the fount of potable water that supplies the city is not volu- minous, but the water is the best one that one may desire. The municipality is composed of eight important districts that are: the one of the City, that is the most prosperous, ater the one of São João Evangelista, the one of Santa Maria de São Felix, the one of São Pedro do Suaçuí, the one of Santo Antônio da Coluna, the one of São José do Jacuri, the one of Santa Teresa do Bonito, and the one of Figueira.

In the municipality there are many villages, as: in the district of the City, the flourishing villages of Sant´Anna do Onça and Ramalhete; in the district of São João Evangelista, the flourishing village of Pintos, or São Sebastião da Aldeia; in the District of Santa Maria de São Felix, the flourishing villages of São Sebastião dos Cristais and of Maranhão.

The city contains more than four hundred houses, being a great number o them o good construction, two churches, House of the Council, Jail. House of Instruction; has 5 state primary schools, that are regularly frequented; the city was not aligned and by that stayed highly without taste.

In its whereabouts, one count an elevated number of rural houses, with plantation of coffee, fruit and vegetables.

In the municipality there exist about thirty state primary schools and many municipal ones.

In the County there are three non-formed lawyers, number that inferior to the one created by the law.

In the city there is no doctor and it counts only on pharmacy.

In the district of Figueira there is a white clay, that must give a good dishware, having we already seen some rough vases, but which attest the good quality of the row material.

Peçanha, 22nd of February of 1899.

The Fiscal Procurator of the Council of Peçanha, Jeronymo Electo de Souza.