Image from page 190 of "Chile today and tomorrow" (1922) (14767238964)

Identifier: cu31924021189315 Title: Chile today and tomorrow Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Joyce, Lilian Elwyn (Elliott), 1884- Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: The Nitrate Pampa: Opening up Trench after St&s^ing Text Appearing After Image: General View of Nitrate and Iodine Plant MINING 153 Total export values, 391,000,000 pesos: of this nitrateand iodine represented 311,000,000 pesos. Nitrate re-sponded to war demands, after the first paralysis ofshipping had passed, and in 1916 nearly 3,000,000 tonswere exported for munitions manufacture to the Alliesand the United States. The greatest purchasers ofChilean nitrate today are European and North Ameri-can agricultural countries; Australia also finds thischemical of great value and, before the war, regularlyexchanged it for coal cargoes. South America herself probably presents the mostextensive stretches of agricultural territory which makepractically no use of nitrate. In Chile its use is almostnon-existent, partly because the soil is too newlyopened and rich to need a stimulus as yet, and partlybecause the moist southerly regions are consideredunsuitable for the employment of the easily solublesalitre. Guano is the most popular fertiliser in Chile,especially in the nort Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.