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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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«ijilli;,fii!i*!^ llllllllo ll THE NITRATE DESERT OF TARAPACA. 157 tion of other salts found in the salitre, which becomes consequentlyless suitable for the economical manufacture of nitrate of soda.The salitreras of the province of Tarapaca being the richest andthe most interesting from both the physical and the commercialpoint of view, we shall limit our attention to them, and asking thereader to accompany us in a visit to some of the best establish-ments, or oficinas, as they are called, we shall endeavor to explainthe processes of the extraction and manufacture of this product, whichis of vital importance to Chili, and, it would appear, of almost equalimportance to modern agriculture. In order to make our prose morelucid we subjoin a sketch map of the nitrate fields of Tarapaca, show-ing the general configuration of the country, the railway and water-pipe lines, and the position of the different oficinas now existing, andrepresenting many millions of English capital, for the nitr

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