Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-23
SOUTH AMERICA.
News Received by the Bureau
Of American Republics.
Valuable Coal Find in the Straits
of Magellan.

Coal for the COaling Station Heretofore
Brought from Wales Unpreoed ented
Agricultural Crops In the Argentine
Republic - BOlivia's Concessions to a
Proposed Railroad.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The following
advices from South America have been
received by the bureau of American re-
publics here:
No One Killed by the Earthquake.
A prominent official of the republic Of
Salvador writes to the bureau complain
ing Of the sensational dispatches pub
lished in the papers Of the United States
concerning recent occurrences in that
country. These dispatches, it is claimed,
emanated from unfriendly sources in the
City Of Mexico. One particular dispatch
complained of described an earthquake
In the city of Salvador that was alleged
to have recently occurred there, attend
Cd by ruin, deBolation and an enormous
Teas Of life and property. 1t is true that
there was an earthquake in Salvador
about this time and that the inhabitants
were considerably frightened, but not a
house was seriously damaged and not a
life was lost. A few persons were In
iured, being struck by falling bricks and
timber, but the event was not Of suffi.
Gent Importance to receive more than an
ordinary paragraph in the local papers,
Valuable Coal Find.
A very important discovery has been
reported to the bureau. A mine of coal
of very fair quality for steaming pur-
poses has been found by accident in the
Straits of Magellan. Signor Fossetti,
the captain of an Italian steamer, was
compelled to anchor in Shagnet bay TO
make some repairs, and while there lac
discovered coal very near the surface.
Reaching Valparaiso, he sent a corps OF
experts to tie scene Of the discovery in
steam launch, who found that the coal
was not only abundant but Of excellent
quality. The importance of the disCOV-
cry to the commerce Of the world can
only be appreciated when it is considered
that all steamers passing through the
Straits of Magellan are required to coal
there and that the supply has heretofore
been brought from from Cardiff, Wales,
Agriculture in the Argentine Republic,
Advices received from the Argentine
Republic by the last steamer by the
bureau show that the value of agricul-
tural and pastoral products in that
country during the year will exceed
anything ever before known. The value
Of tho agricultural crop in 1891 is es'i-
mated at 1886, 900, 900, and the value of
the pastoral products will equal $l20,-
100000, making a total for this years
crop Of over 5000, 100000, which is l5I
per cent. greater than any previous year
and equivalent to $50 per capita Of the
population of the country.
The wheat product IS estimated at
5000 900 tons, valued at %32 900, 900; the
corn crop ut 100000 tons, valued at
915, 1000, 900 and the wool product at 150,
900 tons, valued at $50 000, 900. The value
of the wheat and corn surplus for eX-
port is estimated at $27 500, 900, and the
value wool hides and other pastoral pro-
ducts for export Is estimated at $50, 00O,-
900. 1t is believed that this enormous
crop will restore prosperity to the coun-
try.
Railroad Concession Granted.
The burea' Of American republics il
informed that the government of Bo-
livis has granted to Fernando Cordena,
an Argentine engineer, very important
concession for the construction OF rail
way from Oruro, Bolivia, to the head of
navigation on the Amazon liver, in the
heart Of the rubber region of Bolivia.
The construction of this road will con
meet the mineral regions of Bolivia with
the Atlantic, and thus give cheap trans
portation to Europe.
The government of Bolivia has guar
anteed Senior Cordena 8 per cent, inter
est annually for twenty years on the
capital invested; has given him nine
miles on each side of the proposed line
from which to take materials for con-
struction purposes and In addition has
granted him one hundred square leagues
Of land to be taken at intervals from the
territory adjacent to the road.