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Identifier: cu31924021189315 Title: Chile today and tomorrow Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Joyce, Lilian Elwyn (Elliott), 1884- Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company


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Text Appearing Before Image: reat twin centres of movement lies all the fast-devel-oping agricultural and manufacturing south—Talca, arapid and promising growth; dusty Rancagua, lookingtowards the big interior copper camp; Chilian, head ofa great fruit region; Concepcion, most agreeable ofcities, nestled beside the bright Bio-Bio in a bower ofwoods, with its fine port, Talcahuano; the coal-miningsea-border towns, Coronel, Lota, Arauco, Lebu; Te-muco, one of the most prosperous of all the vigorousyoung southern towns, placed in wonderfully produc-tive country; handsome Valdivia, facing a factory-covered island on the fine river flowing to Corral port,justly proud of its equipment and buildings; Osorno,a rising centre of industry; Puerto Montt, still in itsyouth but with good reasons for sturdy growth. Andlast of all, Punta Arenas, the visibly growing city, finebuildings shouldering little shacks, looking away fromthe beech-covered hills of Brunswick Peninsula to-wards the pearly distance of the Polar seas; Punta

Text Appearing After Image: Santa Lucia Hill, Santiago.Parque Forestal, Santiago.Municipal Offices, Santiago. CHILE: TODAY AND TOMORROW 13 Arenas is not only a new city of Yugo-Slav and Scotsmillionaires, of the tributary sheep-raising country: itis the commercial key of Chiles Far South. The majority of these towns are more than con-venient centres for crowding populations; they owetheir existence to special and widely divergent causesthat have also formed the character of the people.To certain circumstances in Chilean history can beascribed a powerful part in making the Chilean — thedisappearance of the Indian as a worker, and conse-quent self-dependence; the great rise of the nitrate in-dustry, and the creation of national wealth and greatprivate fortunes; and the enlargement of the nationalhorizon by war. But the effect of different regionsand their calls upon resources have been and are stillequally important. Much of the spirit of the Chileanis due to the independent life of the mineral-hunter ofthe nort


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