. Chile today and tomorrow . At Constituci5n, South of Santiago. San Cristobal Hill and Parque Forestal, Santiago. Malleco Bridge, near CoUipuUi. 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 suppHed 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. Al
. Chile today and tomorrow . At Constituci5n, South of Santiago. San Cristobal Hill and Parque Forestal, Santiago. Malleco Bridge, near CoUipuUi. 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 suppHed 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 small
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