. Factory and industrial management . e world, making it difficult to obtain supplies and materialwith which to start operations ; and the port of Nombre de Dios,about forty miles northeast of Colon, was entirely unknown to thecommercial world, although it had been visited and named by Col-umbus on his fourth voyage, in 1502. Tradition has it that, whilesailing along that coast, he was driven by a storm into this port, andhe was so thankful for having escaped the tempest that he exclaimedwhen he landed : En nombre de Dios fundaremos aqui un pueblo,meaning : In Gods name we shall here build a s
. Factory and industrial management . e world, making it difficult to obtain supplies and materialwith which to start operations ; and the port of Nombre de Dios,about forty miles northeast of Colon, was entirely unknown to thecommercial world, although it had been visited and named by Col-umbus on his fourth voyage, in 1502. Tradition has it that, whilesailing along that coast, he was driven by a storm into this port, andhe was so thankful for having escaped the tempest that he exclaimedwhen he landed : En nombre de Dios fundaremos aqui un pueblo,meaning : In Gods name we shall here build a settlement. Hiswishes were fulfilled eight years later by Diego de Nicuesa, whofounded on the same spot the town of Nombre de Dios. Thissettlement increased in population and prospered till it was partlydestroyed by the Indians in 1584, when, by a royal decree issued byPhilip II, king of Spain, the place was abandoned, and the towntransferred to Portobelo, twenty miles to the westward. At present 426 RAILROAD BUILDING IN COLOMBIA. 427. HIE MAIN STREET OF VIENTO FRIO. only a itw remnants of brick and stone foundations mark the site ofold Xombre de Dios, about a mile and a half from the present head-quarters built by the Caribbean Manganese Company. During all the preliminary surveys and a large portion of theperiod of construction the company made its head(iuarters in VientoFrio, a native village on the coast, five miles east of Nombre de nearest post office, or place to obtain supplies, was Colon. Allcommunication between this latter place and Viento Frio had to bemade by sea. as tropical jungles and swamps barred the way by land.
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