The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-14
WARRINts NATIONS
 MUST HAVE
 CHILEAN PRODUCT
Nitrate Fields of Chile Furnish
 Worlds Explosives.

Where is all the raw material com-ll ing from for the vast amdunt Of pow der that will be needed in the great European war That is a question that South America can answer, ac-, scordiIe to a news note in tho July number of the Mon thly BuEletdn of the Pan American Union. Washing-s ton, D. 0.
 Strange to say. the one-co untrys in the world which in times Of peace supplies inc greatest2 agentSto ancreases the productIveness of the earth, wiH now be called upon for idsntica11y Fthes sameSagent to supply the means ofsde- strucEoh- That country is the Re- public Of Chf7es and the product which has now assumed such trernendqus importance is the nitrate of 9aoda whichsit supplies to the wUEld. Mheg nitrate f1elds Of Chile form a full Asaefs1 in the national econ0rr1gssand this news note states that the kaDg- August TO. In the city of Santfago, ceEtaln nitrate lands located in the Province of 1IaEaIaEas thus opening up for dsvezopxnent addlttonal areas combining tlHssEeKnaz Haa5le product
 The greaxez@us In recent years of. Chilean nitrate has been -to make two hAladesg Of grass grow where but one grew befpnes' and in this capacity 1t hagFbeant D blsssfng to humanity. The i1sBs of nitrate of soda as a fer
 
 been known to FOur c1VfH zation less ] thaxNan <snxzzry The story goes that an n1dN<5cotc vnoV 1vssd near the p1seaenb nitrate fields aEOrt 18d6, spuesad some soil contaaning white | crystals OveE part of his garden < Tftngs pzauts7 lsz sf1lfs particllar spot grew fp13r7er11zlzy. Samples of the sd1Rs yveretse to Scof1and for axsaay- sis aande fklssr1sat11 of the ssubstance an<1R kts rszussaa sa fer tilhzer vzas soon kosVezszss he Spanish conq qnaatz sk hs zzzSss Ard, and some of the nzt< <51ss via. 3mew Of the fert11azfuls vslzzls s5E thas white crys- tals, to have 'zkzloazn how to Ekexns ror 1s~Ghe. crude
 To-day zIu5B praGtfcalRy a wdrlde zs1s5fac u the production of nitra4a ndt it's use lssconst anf1y grow lnE Ins1e1 9s the exports reached ti1es NearIy 3 ,eoo.- @o00s toms xVsEeF Fsh4pped from the va rt0us an zzes OK 4hek country and went ls to increase <tzfe esproduct1veness of the soils of many dzferent nations. In- cidsufalz g5hihe derivesa. golden har- vest from thA product The revenue derived from the export duty on nj trate, IF fe<7i dastr1buteda among the fn11ab1tanzzsn fthescountry would give every man, sV8If1S n,sand child no less han $1 Q ann1aIlys This great reve- nue -ts beIng used4 to build railroads, fx14pr owe harBoEs foster education, and to bz11Id sup the nation generalIy: and taking into conzzderation the number Of s f111abffaxts makes Chile opes of sthe richest countries in the world
 fn a strip of cosun1 eabott 800 miles long. at distance varying from 1E to 90 nai1essfrorn thekEaci6 coast The deposits lie 1z1 great beds, or strata and Athe pro<1uctzas easily mined Int pverlydng strata. are penetrated b. small shafts. or driIlsson through tn, natural nitrate ubeds to the underIy ing bad-rock or substraA u1n of clas ols gravel. At the bottom of tn, shafts charges of powder or dynamit, break up and scatter the surface lay CTS and the nitrate The fragm ent Of nitrate are then gathered from tn | debEis and carried ih carts or sn1al cars to the ofIcfnaA or factories which convert the natural produc into the white crystals of nitrate Q sodayAs sack them and then uanspor them5sto the nearest port for ship neut.k
 uat tknosxssez1< syeF& &sthe greatest de 1nand for fratsazFIIa be to make pow der aI1dy dyOF1naEsexp4natNes Nitric acii ia needed to azrufacture nitro-gIy cerEns, dynamite, snokeless poTde and eevartouss kinds of high explo szves8 xBsd in these modern times Hiven1 1n tfn1ssseof peace the Unite States zzses for manufacturing ex plosfHss three times the amount c nitrabeszssd.znsk khes production of fer filtzsr. InFfxn1ess sof war mo ,estimat can besTna5a as to s4heAanount tn SHox l7g win demand -sfnd doubtless ta pr1cesofzC dzeanE 1tfrate@ w4II soar.
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