The farmer and mechanic., 1914-09-29

largest OF the world. The Braden
mines have sonnet hing like 200 ooa.-
600 tons Of ore IN sight. ma the com
pany - putting up mills that Will
treat o.eeo tons daily The mines
are now producing about @.o9e ooa
pounds OF copper a month and L
am told that the profit j oV-i cents
a pound Four thousand men are
employed. and among them many
Americans The ore m.i.ed In 1919
amounted TO 80 600 tens and the
company expects 10 produce almost
100000 pounds per month from
now Oh.
The Chile Exploration COMPANY is
the name OF the Guggenseim branch
which Is developing the Chuauicama-
ia copper mines These are situated
| far north OF the Braden property
| They are about 80 f.sies by rail
| from Antofagasta- lyilG in the
! coastal range of the Andes at an
| altitude of $500 feet. The ore body
| already developed is 5000 feet long.
l.o0e feet wide, and no one knows
| how keep. Diamond drills have
| been put down in places To depth
OF l,le0 feet. and enough ore has
| been found to keep the great plant
now being built busy fer more than
sixty years. There are something
The plant of the Chuquicamata
mines will be one of the finest il
the world The Gugeenheims have
/ 1900 men building il. and ii Will be
finished in 1915. II Includes grea1
crushing machines acid-proof con.
crete tanks. and electrolytic plant.
that will treat more tl;an 30000t
! pounds of copper day. The ma
; chinery has steam turbines. and gen
orators Of 10000 kilowatts. Much
of the machinery viii he run h,
electricity. which will come through
a transmission line eighty miles long
The plant has already huilt twelv
miles of standard gage railroad
l and some Of its mining is to be don
$ with steam shovels from Panama. b
1 which the ore can be gotten out a
: an extremely low cost All Of thi
t machinery Will be in operation ncA
e year. at which time il should b
|, producing copper az the rate {
I 10000, 900 pounds per month, d
{ output that will be doubled in 191
+ by the erection of an autitioual ter
thousand-ton plant. T his coppt
will go north by the canal. and IL
{ ships viii be ready for retur
- freightS to Chile
n The Bethlehem Ste1i mines and II
l. Gu@genheim mines viii rece5sita
h large forces of woTkmen, and II
e anaSement will. of course. be Anne
l. lean. The GuggenheimS are no
el building houses for their employees
le Chuquicamata and Braden. and tn
q are introducing American metho
n and American cOnvenienceS. Th
le will have a number of American far
ut lilies connected with each proper
le and these will be permanent forces
1e the Introduction of American goc
ay and of American trade. At Chuql
IS ca mata the little city now going
is will be a surprise to the ChileanS.
I'd is to have a theater, a hospital. t
IS public schools and "a public libra
a and music halls for the work me-
on There will be telegraph and po
office building and Protestant and
Catholic church. Everything is bel
he done with a view to permanency:
as the getting out of the enormous bo
of of ore will require the moving of mC
nd earth than we moved at Panama.
on will require the payment of was
gh which will eventually amount to m,
es than S2250O0, 900. 1t will last
or generations, and it means a perman'
re American establishment in Chile. I
IDS ChuQuicamata mines are owned
We Americans whose authorized capita
o. $4,000, 900. Of which shares to
nd amount of $95,00O,0 900 have alrea
his the president and among its manag
by are Isaac. Simon, Murray and S.
he Guggenheim. This shows sOmeth
Ia of the kind of money that is go
by into Chile.
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,n- Another big United States comps
that will probably take advantage
the present situation is that VIII
ha owns the Cerro de Pasco copper mi
rth OF Peru | have already written
in its works in my letters from z
,ks country. 1t is backed by millions. {
dc it includes such names the v
tha derhilts. Henry G.. Frick, J. B. Hag
CTR | and the Hearsts They own a pr
hl,. ertv on the very top Of the Andes I
on, | is said to be worth at least S
sc 900, 900. and they have spent milli
par upon it, They are now exporting Sol
ast thing like 1000 tons of copper
nd | month This has been going to
ont markets in foreign steamers. and
is | viii now have to rely upon Ameri
NV vessels The mines are operated