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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: The Nitrate Pampa: Opening up Trench after St&s^ing

Text Appearing After Image: General View of Nitrate and Iodine Plant MINING 153 Total export values, 391,000,000 pesos: of this nitrateand iodine represented 311,000,000 pesos. Nitrate re-sponded to war demands, after the first paralysis ofshipping had passed, and in 1916 nearly 3,000,000 tonswere exported for munitions manufacture to the Alliesand the United States. The greatest purchasers ofChilean nitrate today are European and North Ameri-can agricultural countries; Australia also finds thischemical of great value and, before the war, regularlyexchanged it for coal cargoes. South America herself probably presents the mostextensive stretches of agricultural territory which makepractically no use of nitrate. In Chile its use is almostnon-existent, partly because the soil is too newlyopened and rich to need a stimulus as yet, and partlybecause the moist southerly regions are consideredunsuitable for the employment of the easily solublesalitre. Guano is the most popular fertiliser in Chile,especially in the nort


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