. Pacific line guide to South America; containing information to travellers & shippers to ports on the east & west coasts of South America . quique and Pisagua 890,816tons, the principal producing establishments being:— Rosario de Huara, Ramirez or the LiverpoolNitrate, San Jorge, La Palma and La Patria, AguaSanta, Lagunas, La Paccha and Jaz Pampa, and Buena Ventura. There are two Telegraph (able Stations at Iquique,and land wires serve all the coast towns. Steamers callSouthbound on Mondays and Thursdays, and Northboundon same days; the Intermediate Steamers from Valparaisoalso
. Pacific line guide to South America; containing information to travellers & shippers to ports on the east & west coasts of South America . quique and Pisagua 890,816tons, the principal producing establishments being:— Rosario de Huara, Ramirez or the LiverpoolNitrate, San Jorge, La Palma and La Patria, AguaSanta, Lagunas, La Paccha and Jaz Pampa, and Buena Ventura. There are two Telegraph (able Stations at Iquique,and land wires serve all the coast towns. Steamers callSouthbound on Mondays and Thursdays, and Northboundon same days; the Intermediate Steamers from Valparaisoalso make regular calls at the port. Twenty miles north of Iquique is the minor port ofCaleta Buena, serving as port of shipment for the extensiveNitrate establishment of Agua Santa, which is 21 milesinland. From the top of the hill to the beach, the railwaycars are let down by a cable, but from the top of the hillthe railway to the interior is a 2 ft. 6 in. narrow gauge line,worked by ordinary locomotives. 125 Some 10 miles north of Caleta Buena is the smallNitrate port of Junin. The Ja/. Pampa Oficina, as wellas others, ships from here. TOCOPILLA, II miles south of Iquique, formerlya Holi\*ian port, was taken possession of by Chile in 1879It is a sheltered port, and, after Valparaiso, has the finestiron pier (fitted with hydraulic cranes, &c. , on the ( principal industry of the place is copper mining, whichhas, however, somewhat fallen off of late ; nitrate of sodais also a leading article of export. The Anglo-Chilian and Nitrate Railway runs fromthe port to Toco, the centre of the nitrate district, 50 milesinland, where there is a large virgin extent of Nitrategrounds, in which the Railway Company is railway runs up 5000 feet in the first 30 miles, then 126 clown [ 500 feet to Toco. Near to that town there are alsoconsiderable deposits of borax, though up to the presentthese have not been worked to any extent. The population of Tocopilla is small ; the c
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