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: hands, a tremendous impetus wasgiven to the nitrate industry. Great amounts of foreigncapital were brought in, railways and ports constructed.Production rose steadily. In 1884 the export stood atsome 480,000 tons; in 1888, about 750,000, while themillion mark was passed two years later. The industrysuffered from uncertainties at the time of the Balmacedarevolution, when the insurgent leaders held the north,obtaining revenues and preparing armies upon thisvantage ground; but after the collapse of the Balma-cedistas in 1891 foreign trade was revived, and at theend of the century nitrate shipments had reached about1,500,000 tons. In 1908 the export amounted to more than 2,000,000tons, increasing considerably after this time on accountof the heavy buying of the European Central Powers,Germany and Austria taking together an average of1,000,000 tons each year between 1909 and 1914. Theposition of nitrate in Chiles economic life is illustratedby export figures for the last normal year, 1913.

Text Appearing After Image: The Nitrate Pampa: Opening up Trench after St&s^ing

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