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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Document type:: Monograph

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Title:: VI. Chile

Collection:: Economics Books

CHILE 73 ing and boilings from foreign matter, then bagged and shipped. A more desolate spot than a nitrate “officina,” as these reduction plants are called, would be hard to imagine. No trees or vegetation are to be seen and even water has to be carried for miles in cars for operating the machinery and for other uses. Authorities differ as to the extent of the de posits, some alleging they will be worked out in 20 years, while others claim there is suffi cient supply available for 200 years. Nitrate is used extensively in the arts, for manufactur ing gunpowder and explosives and for a fer tilizer in agriculture. Copper is found in great profusion, $7,947,- 307 worth being exported last year. One of the largest copper mines is owned by the Braden Copper Company, an American con cern. In 1913 its average daily production was 30 tons of bar copper. Machinery is be ing installed which is intended to double this output. Chile at one time contributed one- third of the world’s supply of this metal and mineralogists state that there are yet great bod

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