The earth and its inhabitants .. . prosperous days date only from 1832, when Juan Godoy discovered the exceed-ingly productive silver lodes near Cliamrcillo, 50 miles farther south. Since thenthe Copiapo district has yielded silver ores to the value of £1,200,0(10. xV statueof the discoverer stands in front of the Mining College at Copiapo, which is 456 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ^VXDES REGIONS. connected bv rail with its seaport of Cahlcra, 00 miles to the north-west, and withall the surrounding mineral districts. The Caldera line, the first opened on thePacific slope of the Andes, dates from the year
The earth and its inhabitants .. . prosperous days date only from 1832, when Juan Godoy discovered the exceed-ingly productive silver lodes near Cliamrcillo, 50 miles farther south. Since thenthe Copiapo district has yielded silver ores to the value of £1,200,0(10. xV statueof the discoverer stands in front of the Mining College at Copiapo, which is 456 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ^VXDES REGIONS. connected bv rail with its seaport of Cahlcra, 00 miles to the north-west, and withall the surrounding mineral districts. The Caldera line, the first opened on thePacific slope of the Andes, dates from the year 18-jI, and is consequently theoldest in South America, that of Pemcrara in British Guiana alone excepted. Copiapo docs a flourishing trade with Famafina, on the Argentine side of theAndes, which is reached through the Come-Caballos Pass and other difficult Fig. 174.—La Sebena and Coouimbo. Scale 1: 1, 0 to5Fathoms. Depths. 6to60FatbomB. 60 to 500Fathoms. SflO Fathomsand upwards. IS Miles routes, sooner or later to be replaced by a railway over ground already numbers of meteoric stones have fallen near Imi/ac, on this line. South of Copiapo the mineral zone still continues to and beyond the miningtown of Yerhiibiienn at the foot of Cerro de la Plata (Silver Mount ). Yerba-buena is connected bj rail with the port of Carriznl Bujo, which, with its neigh-bour, Carrizal Alto, forms an important centre of the copper-mining industry.
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