The Spanish-American republics (1891) (14763046422)

Identifier: gri_spanishameri00chil (find matches)
Title: The Spanish-American republics
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore, 1846-1892
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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superficies ofabout one square mile, and includes, besides the five mines at Lotaand the Buen Retiro Mine north of Coronel, smelting-works, glass-works, brick-works, all provided with machinery and means of trans-port, namely, 15 steam-engines, 3 air-compressors, 7 compressed-airpumps, 4 locomotives, several hundred trucks, and 4 kilometres ofrailway, which bring the various departments into communication withtwo moles in Lota Bay, one mole for ships and the other for lighters.The company has four steamers of from 800 to 1200 tons burden, andseveral sailing ships, which carry coal north to supply the Pacificports, and return south with a cargo of copper ore for the Lota smelt-ing-works, which wer.e established originally to use up the slack fromthe mines at a time when Chili coal had not yet obtained a regularmarket. The smelting-works, whose chimneys are carried by a tunnel deepinto the hill-side and find an issue in the two tall stacks that vomit 146 THE SPANISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICS.
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I5AHIA CHAMBIQUE, LOTA. forth incessant volumes of yellowish-white smoke, beclouding the land-scape, and producing effects which would have captivated the painterTurner, well repay a visit. They are the largest in Chili, and consistof a long series of brown sheds covering furnaces from which moltenmetal rolls forth in dazzling rivulets of fire; heaps of ore; piles of barcopper; enormous blast pipes stretching overhead from point topoint; cyclopean kettles on wheels, otherwise known as converters ;trucks running to and fro; iron baskets full of burning slag emittingsulphurous vapors and feeble tongues of blue flame. These worksgive employment to 600 men, and when in full swing they turn out1000 tons of copper a month, mostly by the usual processes of fur-nace calcination. There are 7 furnaces, of 2\ tons capacity each,for treating the raw ore and producing regulus of 50 per cent, cop-per. This regulus then requires to be crushed and calcined, forwhich purpose there are 14 calcining fur