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: of such streets as retain Spanishbalconies and tiled roofs, one might imagine many adistrict of Santiago to be a part of a first-class Frenchor English city. The tramways, the common use ofmotor-cars and electricity, the good paving and goodshops, the beauty and fashion of the Chilean women,the beautifully built and equipped houses, the goodrestaurants, the plentiful supply of newspapers, theappearance and avocations of the people, render Val-paraiso and the Chilean capital among the front-rankcities of the world. But Chilean cities vary greatly. In the central re-gion is the great group of centres of Spanish founda-tion, those of the extreme north showing faces, for themost part, as youthful as those of Western Patagoniaor Punta Arenas on the Strait of Magellan. Temuco,built after the final breaking-down of the Araucanianfrontier, dates as a modern town only from 1881. OldTarata, in the still disputed Province of Tacna, dream-ing with its back to the hills and face to the desert, is

Text Appearing After Image: CHILE: TODAY AND TOMORROW ii a link with the past, for although it is away from thetraffic stream today it was once a stopping-place onthe direct Inca route between Potosi and Arica on thePacific; Tacna owes its modern existence to its littlerailway; but Arica is newly alive, a busy port in abower of gay flowers, a garden on the edge of a waste. South of Arica lies a fringe of new nitrate townsalong the sea-border of the pampas salitreras; Pisagua,Junin, Iquique (not long ago the greatest exporter ofnitrate, but yielding pride of place to Antofagasta),Caleta Buena, Tocopilla, Mejillones, also overshad-owed today by her younger sister, big, well-served,thriving Antofagasta; Coloso, Paposo, Taltal — all liebaking in the bright aridity of the rainless belt, pre-cariously supplied with food and water from afar. In-land there are no populations more permanent thanthose of the nitrate oficinas, save here and there alongthe beds of snow-fed streams. Next in order fromnorth to south comes t

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