The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-29
CHILE CAN SUPPL
WORLD WITH COPPER
Undeveloped Resources OF South
American Republic.
CHANCES FOR CAPITAL
RESIDENT CT cooUIMBo NOW
VISITING SALT LAKE.

tana, Arizona and Utah are exhausted.
Chill ~ean furnish the world with cop
per for centuries. to come, according 20
r. W. James Of Coquimbo, Chile. Mr..
James is a member Of tire shipping firm
OF AfcAuliffe & co. at coquimbo. which
is the shipping point for a large min
ing district. he is at the Kenyon on
hfs way to Liverpool, whence he VIII
go TO visit the home Of his parents in
Wales. Mr.. James, though OF Welsh
parents, was born in Chile and has
lived there all mis- life.
The entire chain OF the Andes is
rich in mineral. which has scarcely
been scratched" said Mr.. james last
evening, The mining that is done
there IS stin by primitive methods and
there are vast tracts that have never
been prospected The mineral found
is principally silver and copper. but
there is considerable gold also A great
deal If copper is mined IN the district
near Coquimbo. The miners are al
Iidtives. and they. work usually about
one man 70 a mine They work ordt-
nary hand drills and ship out t3e5r
ore by mules. All ore running less than
Z or s Per cent copper is thrown away.
The greater part Of the ore runs u to
40~pert cent copper and Is IN bodies as
much as. twenty-five feet. across. If
anybody with capital should come IN
there, use modern methods of mining,
build wire trans down from the noun.
tains and put in q. sTneiter Of their own,
they could make an immense amount
of money a chlorinatiOn plspt also
ought to. be very prohtable, rs the
smelters have everything their own
way at present The miners get little
or nothing for their ore and he smet-
ers make enormous profits ever VIXEN
they are rrln by antiqoated methods
Low grade ore car be had there in al
most unlirdited quantities for practic al-
j. nothing, and a cheap process for eX-
tracing the metals could hardly helIS
being successful,
Trust Sme1ters.
The Guggenheims have been doing
extremely well with their srneIter. They
have one at AHtOfagaSta, some dis
tance from Coquimbo. The one at CO.
quimb0 does not amount to very much
but they have quite an extensive plant.
The COquimbO smelter Is Tor copper
only. while the. Guggenheims l1anCie
ever ores almost exclusively Tie
smeiter was owned by a BRUSH and
Chilean company and the Guggenheins
secured "A lease on it, with the option
OF purchase when the lease was Up
They. also contracted TO buy the ores
from the mines in which the people
formerly owning the smelter We're in
terested. They threw ont most Of the
old plant, put in new furnaces and
new appliances and they. have been
makiRg money ever since We carry
large quantities of iron to them in our
ships from the proVineeain which Co
qJIimbo SIS situated. The iron is Used
entirely for fiuxfng purposes, as there
is no other market for il at present
The Guggenhefms were kicking 6es
fore ], left because TIE price Of 5csal was
so high Chilean coal Is controiied b.
a combination, which Keeps the price
just below that for which American
and Australian coal can be. delivered
there. Consequently ordinary steam
coal sells there for about sic "a. ton, II
freights could be reduced, it would pay
TO ship coal from here for there IS a
market for many thousand more tons
than chile can herself supply:sand the
Chilean coal is inferior -
PLnanna Canal
on sis way TO the United states. RCr.
James stopped long enough to GO over
the route of the Panama canal.
work is being carried on there ina
desultOry fashion, he said. because
the, company has to do so in ordeT-.o
retain its concession from the Col9mn-
bian government. But the canal " u
nevvr be completed at the present rate,
although the route is undoubtedly feas-
ibie- one great draw back is tine CHI
mats. IT is said of the Panama rail-
road that every sleeper -Depeath the
rails represents a human life, and
should not wonder IL that was not
nearly true Work on the canal must
meet the same obstacle. A notlcsGbl
feature Of. the trip along the canal Is
the amount of Tnachinery lying there
IN ruins It is no eSaggsratiOp to say
that there Is between S3si. 0O0 ,O0o and
s4O.0o9O60 worth of machinery Scattered
along the line Of the canal. There are
locomotives piled there that have never
been used, and fine machinery that ROW
is nothing more than heaps OF debris
Ali this was ordered and paid FOR wher
there was absolutely no trse for it. The
heaps Of debris remain there as mon
uments Of the old Panama canal scan
daI"
Mr.. James saws that contrary tc
in Chile are not corrupt, aud that cap
ital is afforded. ample Prots otion3 thC
situation being dsfferent in attlfs fegarC
from that in some other SOHtlls Amer.
Jean countries The climate is aboui
like that of California The trihg tn9'
is keeping the country back most, ~
s. There eare afSays several poiit:esl
parties he said and net one of then
can gaiT.s controfAs without combiRins
with another. "A ministry gets int
power ard begins mapping oat Z
course of action, perhaps with hist
ideals. when there begins to be frictio1
between the two parties, and down goei
the ministry. Politics also makes III
.-ervice on the covernnent railroat
miserable. Tor the positions ere giveI
as political rewards and not becausi
OF knowledge OF the Ge4lroad BUSINESS.
Mr. James win LEAVE for the east to
day
SUNDAY SCHOOL ccSvENTl0N
s+1te Association win Hold Tire