Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VI. Chile

Collection:: Economics Books

CHILE 75 Stock raising is increasing, especially to the south, where sheep are profitably grazed. The latest census gives the number of cattle at 1,900,000, sheep 5,000,000 and goats 300, 000. Much wool from three to four-inch staple is produced, last year 20,563,833 pounds being exported. Dairying is rapidly grow ing. Bee culture is becoming a permanent in dustry, there being 90,000 hives in Chile in 1913. Much honey and wax are exported. There are millions of acres of virgin forests of valuable hard woods in the south, the north being a barren, treeless country. The chief trees are the Chilean oak, the rauli, elm, cy press, pine, cherry, laurel and of late the eucalyptus is being propagated extensively. Some industries such as shoe factories, can neries, breweries, distilleries, sugar refineries, cracker bakeries, and the like exist but their products are for local consumption. The fruits of Chile, such as the cherry, peach, pear, apple, nectarine, plum, apricot and melon, are the equal of ours. Inasmuch as the seasons here are reversed, these luscious

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