. Factory and industrial management . ome, attimes, yields that almost challenge belief. The stories that havecome to the outside world, from time to time, of the gold alluvions ofthe Darien, Choco, Atrato, San Juan, Cauca, Nechi, and Force, andthe rumors set afloat regarding the fabulous richness of these fieldsand streams, have read for half a century like fairy tales. Yet manyof these stories have a basis of truth. Explorations, in recent years,into the regions mentioned have brought to light the fact that, with-in their precincts, in some places, lie stores of wealth of vast extent,though
. Factory and industrial management . ome, attimes, yields that almost challenge belief. The stories that havecome to the outside world, from time to time, of the gold alluvions ofthe Darien, Choco, Atrato, San Juan, Cauca, Nechi, and Force, andthe rumors set afloat regarding the fabulous richness of these fieldsand streams, have read for half a century like fairy tales. Yet manyof these stories have a basis of truth. Explorations, in recent years,into the regions mentioned have brought to light the fact that, with-in their precincts, in some places, lie stores of wealth of vast extent,though formidably guarded against the encroachment of man by cli-matic and other conditions too deadly to face. The State of Antioquia, though but little known, by reason of itsalmost inaccessible location, is perhaps the richest State, in mineralwealth, in all Colombia. Situated, it might be said, almost in the lap of the Andes, and cross seamed by many spurs from the parentchain, the State presents an almost unbroken area laced with gold-. BOLIVAR PARK, MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA. THE GOLD-FIELDS OF THE FORCE RIVER. 985
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