The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-16
HOW Southern Chile is Be-
ing Opened UP To
Settlement

horses which haul the two cabs between
the railroad station and the hotel. Ii IS in
oEcarss that the thousands u bushels o.
wheat raised near by are brought &c the
ING. the hauling Of lumber. the 5ray5ng and
everything that heavy horses o. mules GO
with us. The r1etnod Of yok'ng the oxer IL
tire same here as all over Chile. The YOKE
rests on the neck. just back II the horns.
II IS tied by straps 20 The horns. and all OF
the pushing or pulling o. the cart or plow
mast he done with the head. The woke Is
heavy ps@re OF wood. ari SO fastened
that one * c. mot move 1is nNa win ati-
the other. and 80 ina. Il Ia Impossible 20
swing /, from side 10 side. The tongue Of
the frontier cart is "a Big a telegraph
pole. II Is Il part OF the cart itself. and a.
the oxen work they have the weight OF
this resting on Their horns II seems cruel
in the extreme, and the oxen move pain
fully along with protruding eyes, DIS they
drag their heavy loads.
How Land II Sold in Chile.
In company with Don Augustine Balza,
the government inspector OF colonization.
l made trip into Ihe wilderness over the
thirty kilometers If new railroad, whica is
almoss. finished. but not yet ready for traf
iic. The road Is being built by ii1e state
- open up new lands and i is part cf
system which will extend from one end Of
agricultural Chile TO the other The read
Is well built. with sixty-pound English
rails, and the English four-foot-e.ght
gauge. II will cost, excluding the bridges,
stock VIII be American, and II was in u
Baldwin engine and on American hand
. cars that We made part OF our Journey
over the line. The steel bridges, and there
are tao, each Of which cost more than
&i10s, we're bought from France, al
though why America did not get the con-
tract do not know. large number OF the
best Of the present railroad bridges having
been imported from the United States. The
stations were built and a. wide space
fenced IN about each OF them. There are
as yet no towns about the stations Tho
government regulates such settlements II
lays out the town lots. giving them ut low
prices 10 actual settlers The railroad town
boomer thus has no change along the new
state lines Of Chile. The other government
lands are sold In large lots and at auctions
which are held in different parts of the
country once or twice a year. Just now
money Is scarce here and valuable lands go
very cheap. The land is usually sold In
pieces u i.5to acres. but one purchaser can
buy a each sale up 10 $500 acres and IL
he wants more he can, of course. purchase
the additional amount through third
party. or under another name. At such
sales quarter Of a million acres are sold
at a time. The land brings from Sl,15 to
$50 gold per acre. according 10 its pos ton
and character. and the buyers must pay
only one-thrd cash and the remainder.
without interest, In ten equal insteliments
running through ten years. Many OF the
rich men Of Chile have become so by buy
Ing these lands. They increase rapidly in
value. and the only provision required by
the government Ia that the purchaser put
fence about the property he buys
Immigrants and the Government
Chile has been very anxious TO have i'm
migration. and she has In the past offered
extraordinary inducements to colonists
Each male immigrant gwen 100 acres
OF land, team of oxen. cart and barrel
house. lie was also loaned money for his
passage from Europe 10 Chile, and was