Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru . he population now is aboutsixteen thousand, although during the boom it roseto over twenty thousand, of whom more than fivethousand were foreigners. A good percentage wereChileans. Apart from its importance as a mining centre,Oruro has for some time been distinguished as a rail-road terminal. A line from here to Potosi is line from Oruro to Cochabamba, on whose fertilevalleys Oruro depends for its food-supply, is in courseof constructio
Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru . he population now is aboutsixteen thousand, although during the boom it roseto over twenty thousand, of whom more than fivethousand were foreigners. A good percentage wereChileans. Apart from its importance as a mining centre,Oruro has for some time been distinguished as a rail-road terminal. A line from here to Potosi is line from Oruro to Cochabamba, on whose fertilevalleys Oruro depends for its food-supply, is in courseof construction. The Bolivia Railways line to LaPaz has recently been completed. The road to An-tofagasta has been running since 1892. Oruro is nearly six hundred miles from Antofa-gasta and the journey used formerly to take threedays, for trains were only run by daylight and atslow speed. We found, however, that the road-bedhad been improved, although the track was notwidened, and a vestibuled train with two compart-ment sleeping-cars and a restaurant-car can nowmake the journey from Oruro to Antofagasta in twonights and a day. Three times a week a Bolivia. A QUAINl OLD BALCONY IN ORURO
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