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Wanderings in Some of the Western Republics of America; With Remarks Upon the Cutting of the Great Ship Canal Trough Central America
George Byam
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-21.
ISBN 9781150251627
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1850 Subjects: History / General History / Latin America / Central America History / Latin America / South America History / Americas Travel / South America / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. (iipl. n MINES AND GOLD WASHINGS -- HONESTY OF THE MULETEEBS THEIK MODE OF BIVOUACKING DISCOVEBY OF A MINE -- THE BACE OF MINEBS -- THEIB OEEAT STRENGTH -- PBODUCTIONS OF CHILI. THERE are gold mines and gold washings within one hundred miles of Santiago ; but the gold mines in that part of the country are very poor and uncertain: they have always proved losing speculations to those who worked them; and the only one I know to have been successful, situated to the south of Coquimbo, is a mine about half way between that town and Santiago, on the upper road, or that nearest to the foot of the Andes. It belonged to a gentleman who was the owner of a large estate, and was called the ' Mina de las Vacas.' When I visited it the expenses were calculated at about one hundred dollars a-day, and the receipts at about two hundred, leaving one hundred dollars a-day clear gain. No bad thing in these hard times. The gold washings are always carried on by poor men, who exile themselves for a certain period after the rains, or, rather, after the melting of the snows in the Cordillera has swollen the rivers and streams. They take up their abode near some stream, and dig 40 HONESTY OF THE MULETEERS. and wash the earth left dry by the receding of the water: they work on their own account, but their earnings are very small, and still more precarious. Copper mines abound in the province of Coquimbo; and, for many miles north of the town, th
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