The Spanish-American republics (1891) (14763341115)

Identifier: gri_spanishameri00chil (find matches)
Title: The Spanish-American republics
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore, 1846-1892
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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d billiard tables, are likewise wooden sheds, builtaround an enclosed patch of dust and detritus. The barracks arewooden sheds also. Nevertheless, Traiguen is a growing town; ithas scarcely four thousand inhabitants, but it boasts four local news-papers, a number of general stores, depots of agricultural machinery,flour-mills, vast wheat warehouses, and innumerable cheap restaurantsand grog-shops for the country people and the Indians. Traiguen isthe centre of the wheat and timber trade of Chili, and also of the gov-ernment colonization system. All the wheat, timber, and other mer-chandise from the departments of Imperial and Temuco is brought toTraiguen in bullock carts to the railway, which carries it to the inte-rior, or to the port of Talcahuano. On the hills and high table-landsaround Traiguen you see for miles and miles nothing but wheat, andfor miles and miles the eye can follow the red dusty roads that windlike ribbons over the slopes leading to the various colonies and to the
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LANDSCAPE NEAR ANGOL. AGRICULTURAL CHILL 89 towns of Victoria and Tcmuco. From time to time a herd of kinepasses, driven along by half a dozen men and boys on horseback,armed with long lassos and a rich vituperative vocabulary. Then youwill meet a train of fifty or a hundred ox carts laden with bags ofwheat. Then a queer ram-shackle carriage will emerge from a cloudof dust and reveal five wretched horses harnessed abreast, the twooutside ones simply attached by a rope, and awaiting their turn to doserious pulling between the shafts, mere galloping at the side beingconsidered rest and not work. In an official publication, entitled Sinopsis Estadistica y geograficade Chile (Santiago, Imprenta National, 1890), I read the following,under the heading Colonization: European immigration has begunto increase greatly since last year. The peacefulness of our country,and the complete liberty of action and of thought which natives andforeigners enjoy without distinction, tend to accelerate this m