El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-09-19

breakwater OF q thousand feet and a qua,
] wall aDout twice as long II viii have Goa
I wnarFes, eustoulhouses and warehouses ana
I all Of the modern arrangsments for Ioaiin1
/ and Unloading goods from the cars 10 ~
steamers and from steamers to cars
Area Is Worth Notice.
The area o. Chile IS worth notice Ths
I country IS on the average from 100 to 15o
miles wide. and Il has all told almost 400 :
600 square miles. That means that b. is
tWice as big as California five times as
- q = Se9rsls ana more than seven times
C Stg sc OF ohio, Kentucky or Virginia
Chile would make four linuesotas or ~
FennsylFanias and have room 70 snare. and
u texas and Maryland were sliced into bits
and put together they would iust ator4r
III T. II is almost an hundred thousr n
square miles bigger than Germany France
ana over three times the size o. that tirht
Als-e Island OF England and Scotland
ms long drawn out country. running as
II does southwark from the EQUATOR Ewes
70 az sorts or climate and many resources
IN the northern uart v-ba-a 7 49, 49,
t-aFeilng II does not rain from one end OF
Lle year 20 the other. At SANTIAGO which
s5ss "a s, ne great central valley. only
SNORT ols-lnce east OF Valparaiso. there Is
rain on 81 days every Il months. while AZ
ta-ciAla- IN the southern part o. that valley
y rains ll- days every year A little fur
Their south the rainfall is Greater '-is-.
are localities where the people facstiousiy
say that it rains Is months every year.
Northern Part Is a Desert.
This being the ease. the northern mart
Ae--aa - a AEeaEL me central uurg "a
a rich farming country with orchards and
vineyards and great haciendas many 81
which are watered by irrigation; and the
southern part has lands that grow hav
wheat and grain. the fields being fed By the
plentiful rainfall
The latter region has also enormous areas
~ ioles- H. VII surprise you 70 know
~ one-tourth OF all Chile is wooded and
mat Just now they are cutting down ne
ssgo4s and burning them. as we fooilshfv
90 ln the past 20 make farms AItorether
a n-u 81.
eoIaoined states of Ohio and Indiana. il
- more thln 5000 square miles
Beiore leave this general Dissertation
want 70 Le-l you about the lands a-s i-iIr,s
tries OF the Strait 81 Sr1--i-. - - -
ar1nipel2go OF Terra del F7rrs-o No. -.
q part OF the frontier % This shoestrIn-
republic, and as one looks AZ rhe--1 ~ 49,
map he might imagine them ro h. s,- -
What Ike the country thar the a., -
SCOTT found about the south pole OF ne
contrary, they have climate about ~ Mia
as that Of Sitka. Alaska. who's - 49,
compared 70 that OF Cincinnati ~ 49,
lnston city. The sheep OF that region fee5
OUT OF doors all the year round ana 49,
dreds of millions OF pounds OF wool 81.
exported from the strait each year Dr,-i-.-
my last visit to Chile this sheep infustr5-
,a ~ US beginning II has since grown
oeyond all that was prophesled then and
me- are now single companies which own
more than 1000. 900 OF sheep.
Ihat part OF Chile Is made up OF the
s goIaerEed range o. the Andes some 81
whlcn are covered with glaciers. The conn
- mas light fall Of snow in the winter.
uut IL seldom lies long, and the sheep bur /
row doWn through the snow for the grass
IN Striking contrast with that region Is ]
NJ lnern chile. from which have come
NJ part OF the republic would have an .
--lIlost tropical heat were u not that IL Il
leulpereQ by the cold Humboldt current 10 I
such an extent that white men can live
- ~nere near the coast There are thriv-
~ towns ports e. the end OF each little
.,lLley. which has Nster from the SHOWS OF i
me Andes and there are cities az the
p-leeS from where the nitrate and minerals
.re shipped to the United States and Eu-
Rich In Copper.
The country also IS rich IN copper. and
= rs the great outlet to the vast treasures
p the Bolivian Andes They are discover
ls new copper mines and Iron mines and
.uey nave already unearthed enormous de-
POSTS OF both OF these minerals. Amone |
" peSl or the copper proper-as are those
,t the GuEgenheims near Antofagatta and /
ne pest OF the iron deposits are those be-
onElns 70 the Bethlehem Steel company. l
uFther down the coast near Coquiuibo Each I
y {nese properties is worth tens OF millions