Image from page 214 of "Chile today and tomorrow" (1922) (14769601705)

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: de of hospitable andcheery Antofagasta is in the country club to which thevisitor is always motored along the sweep of the bay;here is a cool building with a fine dancing floor and agood cook. But its chief claim to admiration is thelittle garden, no more than a few feet square, tended sodevotedly that all the year round it glows with gayflowers. All the chief towns of the nitrate pampas, besidespossessing rail transport to the Pacific, are connectedby the main line of the Red Central Norte to San-tiago, and thence to the farming regions of the Chileansouth; there is through railway connection, thus, be-tween such towns as Iquique and Antofagasta and thenewly-operating packing-house of Puerto Montt. Agri-cultural Chile has no better markets than those offeredby the thronged and busy nitrate pampas and portsof her own north, and from Llanquihue to Coquimbo,the last outpost of farming country in northern Chile,foodstuffs are sent by rail or sea to supply the greatregion of desert camps. Text Appearing After Image: c < MINING 175 Copper The future of copper mining in Chile is wrapped inuncertainty. The industry has already undergone anot unfamiHar transformation, with a deeply markedeffect upon the Chilean population engaged in this work,for, commencing as a series of individual enterpriseson the part of the native-born, it has become a largescientifically organised business operated chiefly byforeigners,! with the Chileans reduced to the positionof wage-earners. Under the old haphazard system, when a man wouldfrequently go out into the desert alone, or with a singlecompanion, hunting for rich veins of copper ore, a goodliving at least was the rule; when the discovery of aconsiderable deposit warranted the introduction ofsimple machinery, a few employes, transport animals,etc., many little and big fortunes were made. Thebuyers and smelters of last century also earned satis-factory returns. But, curiously enough, the hugeorganisations utilising immense masses of lower-gradeores, employing thou 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.