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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: orth280,000,000 pesos, Valparaiso following with 163,000,-000 and Concepcion coming third with 68,000,000 pesos.Included in this output are metal goods, furniture,dried and tinned fruit: wines, beer, mineral waters,butter and cheese, lard, candles, soap, boots and shoes,wheat flour, Quaker oats, woven woollen and cottoncloths, pottery, chemicals, brown paper, bottles andother glass utensils, sugar and tobacco. Factoriesmanipulating the two last-named commodities do notdraw supplies of raw materials from Chilean soil butdepend upon importations, chiefly from Peru. Thereare two sugar works, both Chilean-owned and operated;one is situated at Valparaiso and another at Penco(near Concepcion City), where soft brown crystallisedsugar is brought in sacks, and, after undergoing a seriesof new processes, including bleaching, is distributedto local firms in the form of soft white or cube sugar.The Chilean market rejects all sugars presenting anyhue but that of pure white, I was informed when en-

Text Appearing After Image: At Constitucion, South of Santiago. San Cristobal Hill and Parque Forestal, Santiago. Malleco Bridge, near CollipuUi. COMMERCE 229 quiring at Penco why at least a proportion of the ex-cellent brown sugar imported could not be distributedin that condition, and at considerably lower cost to theconsumer. When the refinery was erected it was hopedthat it could be exclusively supplied with raw materialfrom local sugar-beet farms, and the failure as yet toproduce these crops in quantity is emphasised by theretail price of sugar in Chile — fifteen pence per poundin 1920. Also near Concepcion, a few miles eastward followingthe curving banks of the silver Bio Bio River, is a Brit-ish-owned and operated cotton-cloth factory turning outan average of 1,000,000 yards yearly, and working 276looms. The machinery is British and yarns are im-ported from Manchester. All through the agriculturalsouth are flour mills, of which half a score are owned byBritish firms; some of these installations are smal

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