Identifier: cu31924021189315 Title: Chile today and tomorrow Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Joyce, Lilian Elwyn (Elliott), 1884- Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company

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Text Appearing Before Image: d owners and aprice. Enterprising citizens went forth into the woods,found some ancient Indian who was willing for a con-sideration to swear that such and such a tract was hisinheritance from his fathers, and, for another considera-tion, to sell it. Vicente Perez found it an extremely difficult matter tolight this new flood of landowners, and had no time tospend upon litigation; so, philosophically, he adoptedsimilar methods, and presently acquired territory.But meanwhile provision had been made for the firstarrivals by the public spirit of Benjamin Viel, a Frenchcitizen of Valdivia, who gave for their settlement thepretty Isla de la Teja which lies at the confluence ofthe Calle-Calle and the Cruces rivers in front of Val-divia City. Today the island is covered with prosperousbusinesses, most of them carrying German names —breweries, a paper mill, two or three shipbuilding yards. The agent then went to look for interior land for thenext batches of colonists, and, finding that forest

Text Appearing After Image: Valdivia, a Flourishing New Southern City. Punta Arenas, the Southernmost City in the World. Puerto Varas, facing Calbuco Volcano, Lake Llanquihue. IMMIGRATION 293 country was unclaimed, started to explore what wasstill virgin country to the white man. He lived onhoney and wild nuts, struggled through dense woodlandto the edge of Lake Llanquihue, chose his ground, andthen gave his chief Indian scout, the celebrated Pichi-Juan, thirty pesos to burn clearings through the heartof the forest. It was this Indian who brought the firstfifty yoke of oxen to the borders of the Gulf of Relon-cavi, driving them through the jungle from Osornoand opening the first track. Pichi-Juan took three months to burn a belt fiveleagues wide, and fifteen leagues long, through theOsorno Valley, leaving isolated woods to serve for house-material and fuel. Puerto Montt, at Melipillo, wasfounded in February, 1853, among blackened stumps,and the new colony, also of Germans, had two badwinters when the crops rotte

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