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THE OMAHA SUNDAY HKK: SK1TEMBKK 27, 1014.
(Copyright. 1M4. by Frank O. Carpsntsr.)
ANTIAGO, Chlle.-Ths nrf-st
SI war In Europe and tho enm
I pletlon of the Panama ranal
mil in i rv me ivMiininK OI nn
fncrmoui trade between the
United States and I'hlle. fn-
dr the old conditions this trade has
7 trebled since 19C3. and within the last
four years It has Increased 1W per cent.
It already amnunti In UftftYtflrin ni-
v
, num. but this Is only about one-alxth of
f divided amona; Great Brltlan. Germany
and France, whose factories and ships
ar now tied up In this terrible war. The
foreign commrrre of this country now
teregates nore than J250.0?n.niX per an
num, and the bulk of it la with Kuropa.
In 1913 Great Brltlan exported :0,
000,000 worth of roods to Chile, and It
took back in exchange goods to the
Amount of t25.O0O.0W. Chile's com
merce with Germany has averaged mora
than WO.OOO.OCO per annum, and It has
been trading with Franc to the extent
tf 115,000,000. Belgium also has had a
good slice of the business, and Australia
has been sending In coal by the shlp-
- ' nm '1 In nnrvfh.ir 1 e t f T will (DLa tin
some of the Itenie) and show the mighty
openings created by the war. This letter
I shall devote to the present conditions
nd describe some of the b'.g thing that
Americans are already doing with a view
to the future.
Few Americans In Trade.
Within the last few months the Chil
ean government has put Its exposition
buildings at the disposal of a commercial
museum for the display of American
products. The government Is especially
friendly to Americans, and within recent
years it has bought a great deal of Its
railway material from the United States.
It now proposes to subsidize a line of
steamers which will go northward
through our canal to our Atlantic ports,
and It Is anxious to establish the closest
of trade connections with us In view of
the loss of Its Kuropean commerce. 1
We have already a number of Ameri
can ships that are plying between New
Tork and Chile. Some of them belong
to Grace Co., which controls the largest
part of the American business on the
west coast. This company has eight new
vessels In course of construction. They
' are large steamers and fitted for the
down through the canal to Valapraiso. The
same firm has other ships plying north
and south along the Paclflo coast, carry
ing lumber and flour, and It has many
vessels engaged In the carrying of ni
trates, which from now en will probably
go through the canal The Graces are
especially fitted to handle present condi
tions. The firm has its branches In New
York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Se
attle and New Orleans, as well as In "Lon
don, Manchester and Birmingham. It has
the countries of the west coast of South
America divided up into selling districts.
Just as our wholesale houses divide up
their domestic territories, and Its
branches, agencies and traveling sales
men cover almost every part of Ecuador,
Peru, Bolivia and Chile. It has long
led In the selling of American farm ma
chinery and In the handling of kerosene
and Illuminating oils, but It also does a
general wholesale business of Importing
and exporting, selling everything from
needles to steam dredges, and from push
carts to locomotives. It Is th Bouth
American representative for the west
coast of the General Electric and Inter
national Harvester companies. It Is
noted for taking big contracts, and Its
capital and business already run high Into
the millions.
In addition to the Graces, there are a
number of other firms pushing American
goods who are ready to Jump Into the
new situation and handle It to the full
eat extent. Among these are Weeaell,
Duval & Co., the successors of the old
firms of Flint, Eddy & Co. and Beeche
A Co., who have been long noted In Chile,
and also Williamson, Balfour & Co. and
Anthony Glbbs. These companies have
offices In New Tork and are already en
gaged In American importation. The
same might be said of Duncan, Fox at
Co., which la an English house with
branches In the United States. All of
these firms sell more or less American
flour, cottons and various kinds of Amen-
lean machinery. Nearly all handle farm
ing Implements and are ready to take or
ders for American goods of any descrip
tion. Our chief typewriter companies
have their agencies here and our phono
graphs and graphophones are distributed
throughout every city and town. The
Blnger Sewing Machine company Is In
evidence everywhere, and the National
Cash Register keeps not only the ac
counts of most of the stores, but even
the cash of the telegraph and poatofflces
as well.
Q Many After the Trade,
Many of our great combinations of cap
ital have long been planning to work the
Bouth American trade, and the present
Ituatlon finds them ready to take ad
vantage of It. The United States Steel
company has had Its agents In every
country of the west coast, and for gome
time Its own ships have been going from
New York to these ports by the way of
the Strait of Magellan. They will now
go by the Panama canal, and their re
turn freights will be such goods as have
hitherto been carried by the steamers of
Germany, France and Great Britain. The
United States Steel company already
ells more than half of all the steel used
m In Chile, and It is rapidly absorbing that
class of business throughout South Amer
ica. A large part of the building now go
ing an is In steel, and the new railroads
In course of construction, will now be de
pendent upon us, rather than Europe, for
their rails and other materials.
The Bethlehem Steel company la In
splendid shape to do an enormous busi
ness with the west coast of South Amer
ica. At the time the European war broke
out, It had almost completed a dozen large
steamers which were to be employed In
carrying the Iron ore from Its mines near
Coqulmbo, Chile, to the Bethlehem Steel
works. It was estimated that the ore
freight would amount to something like
L 000,000 tons per annum, and the ships
were built with the expectation that the
return freight from the United States to
Chile would be practically nothing. The
oompany expected to make Its money v
carrying the ore to Its own mills. The
present situation will enable this fleet to
have full cargoes of United States goods
on the return voyages, and the company
will probably do a general carrying busi
ness In addition to Its steel and ore ship
ments. Another Bis Opportunity.
The tame will be true of the nitrate
fleet that In the past has gone south
through the Strait of Magellan and
therve to Europe and the United Slates.
From now on that fleet will probably go
through the ranal. and as the United
Htates Is one of the ,et customers for
Ins lltllo rhiinh nrar Iiuliiie. lie
showed It to Oini-e, and the result was
tho redis'ii ery of the 1 1 h stlvrr property
f t. Trier and St Pnnl This fsuve
Chni'o hli start. Ilf made money cut of
the two faints, and with that IhmikIiI
other mines, eventually Incoming one of
the owner, of the Chiuinlcamata property
which has since gone into the hnm'.n of
the Guggenheim. '
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GEN. DIMITRIEFF AMONG
SUCCESSFUL RUSS LEADERS
I.ONlMi.V, Sept. one of the most
miri-rsNfiil genrrnls on the ItiisMlan side
In the Mdvanre on ltnhorg wn (Icneml
I'lmitrleff, the well known Itiilgnilan
genrriil who lei the third army, which
foimr.l the left lnK ,,f the Unlgiirtnn
force In the grenl buttle of l.ule Biirgna
on tvioher and 1IJ prexlous to that
he had won a signal victory over thn
Turks at Kirk Kllln.e. After the e.nd of
Kind Word for All.
An old Scotch woman was famous for
j speaking kindly No sheep was so dark,
but xlie could discover some white spot
, to Milnt out to those who could see only
ills blackness. One day a gossiping neigh
bor lost patience with lier, and said,
i angrily :
Wmnmiin. ye ll hMr a guld word to say
I for the lce II himself"'
Instantly enmc the reply:
"Went, he's a era Indiistreeoua body!"
-Tll-lUts.
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Valparaiso &ar2ej
nitrate, the steamers that land there will
load up with American goods and bring
them back to Chile. We are now trklng
something like 400,000.000 pounds of nitrate
a year, and Chile Is ready to consume a
like amount of American goods. This
nitrate business Is controlled by Ameri
cans. It is handled by the Nitrate
Agencies, Limited, the majority of whose
stock is owned by W. H. Grace & Co., and
Its return freight will probably be run in
connection with the Graces.
Another effect of the war will be to send
millions of dollars' worth of American
capital Into Chilean Investments. It
means new banks and new syndicates of
various kinds This la a land of big
things, and the Americans are gradually
getting their fingers on some of the most
valuable properties. Take the Bethlehem
Steel oompany. - It has recently acquired
an iron mountain near Coqulmbo, a port
on the west, coast, of Chile, between An
tofagasts, and Valparaiso. The ore lies
only about five miles from the coast, and
is so situated that it can be loaded by
gravity. That property Is said to contain
more than - 100.000.000 tons of high-grade
ore, which assays from 60 to 70 per cent
of pure Iron. The mines have enough ore
to supply the Bethlehem steel works for
more than fifty years.
Copper Mines Are tireat.
Some of the greatest copper mines of
the world are In Chile, and In the hands
of the Guggenheim syndicate. I refer
to those being worked under the Chile
Exploration company and the Braden
Copper company. The Braden copper
mines, lie about tOO miles southeast of
Valparaiso. . They were opened up by
Americans, Including William Braden,
K. W. Nash, Messraore Kendall and
others, and were afterward sold to the
Guggenhelms. Within the last few
ycurs something like $14,000,000 have
been spent upon them, and they are now
potentially about the largest of the
world. The Braden mines have some
thing like 200,000,000 tons of ore in sight,
and the company la putting up mill that
will treat 6,000 tons daily. The mines
are now producing about 2,000,000 pounds
of coprer a month, and I am told that
the profit 1a over A cents a pound. Four
thousand men are employed, and among
them many Americans. The are milled
In 1913 amounted to 780.000 tons, and the
company expects to produce almost 3,
000,000 pounds per month from now on.
The Chile Exploration company Is the
name of the Guggenheim branch which
Is developing the Chuquicamata copper
mines. These are situated far north of
tha Braden property. They are about
150 miles by rail from Antofagaata, lying
In the coastal range of the Andes at an
altitude of 9,500 feet. The ore body al
ready developed la 8,000 feet long, 1,000
feet wide, and no one know how deep.
Diamond drills have been put down In
places to a depth of 1,100 ' feet, and
enough ore has been found to keep the
great plant now being built busy for
more than sixty years. There are some
thing like 200,000,000 tons In sight.
Finest Plant la World.
The plant of the Chuquicamata mines
will be one of the finest In the world.
Tho Ouggenhelmts have 1,600 men build
ing It, and It will be finished In 1915. It
Includes great crushing machines, acid
proof concrete tanks, and electrolytic
plants that will treat more than 300,000
pounds of copper a day. The machinery
has steam turbines, and generators of
10,000 kilowatts. Much of the machinery
will be run by electricity, which will
come through a transmission line eighty
miles long. The plant has already built
twelve miles of standard gauge railroad,
and some cf Its mining Is to be done
with steam sbovels from Panama, by
which the ore car. be gotten out at an
extremely low cost.. All of this ma
chinery will be in operation next year,
at which time It should be producing!
copper at the rate of 10,Oi0,Ou0 pounds
per month, an output that will bo dou
bled In 1917 by the erection of an ad
tlonal 10,00t-ton plant. This copper will
go north by the ranal, and the ships will
be read for return freights to Chile.
Will Need Many Men.
The Bethlehem Steel mines and the
Ougenhelm mines will necessitate large
forces of workmen, and the management
will, of course, be American. The Gug
genhelms are now building houses for
their employes at Chuquicamata and
Braden, and they are introducing Ameri
can methods and American conveniences.
They will have a number of American
families connected with each property,
and these will re permanent forces fot
the Introduction of American goods and
of American trade. At Chuquicamata
the little city now going up will be a sur
prise to i..e Chileans. It Is to have a
theater, a hospital, two public schools and
a public library and music halls for the
workmen. There will be c telegraph and
postoffice building and a Protestant and
a Cat hollo church. Everything Is being
done with a view to permanency; for the
getting out of the enormous body of ore
will require the mo Ing of more earth
than we moved at Panama. U will re
quire the payment of wages which will
eventually amount to more than 125,000,-1
000. It will last for generations and It
meana a permanent American establish-1
mint In Chil Th. Chiinulcam tm mines I
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are owned by Americans whose authorised
capital Is 1110,000,000, of which shares to
the amount of $95,000,000 have already
been Issued. Daniel Guggenheim la the
president and among Its managers are
Isaac, Simon, Murray and 8. II. Guggen
heim. This shows something of the kind
of money that la going into Chile.
Another big United Statea company that
will probably take advantage of the pres
ent situation is that which owns the Cerro
de Pasco copper mines of Peru. I have
already written of Its works In my letters
from that country. It is backed by mil
lions, and It Includes such names as the
Vanderbllts. Henry C. Frlek. J. B. Haggln
and the Hearsts. They own a property on
tho very top of the Andea that Is said to
be worth at least 150,000,000, and they have
spent millions upon it. They axe now ex
porting something like 2,000 tons of copper
a month. This has been going to the
markets In foreign steamers, and it will
now have to rely upon American vessels.
The mines are operated by 6,000 or 8,000
Peruvians under American foremen and
engineers, and they have a little American
town In the highlands. They have built
an American railroad to connect with
the line that goes to the tops ot the
Andes from Lima. That road la the best
managed in Peru as well as by far the
best built.
Uncle Ham in Right.
Indeed, the United Statea would seem
to be coming Into Its own again as to
South America, It was our people who
started the sister continent on Its wayto
industrial development. The first (team
ship line that plied along the west coast
was founded by a Yankee, William Wheel
wright of Newburyport, Mass., and it was
he who built the first railroad on the
South American continent.
He Introduced the first gas plant' and
organized the first fire company. He was
also the first to propose a feasible plan
for a transcontinental railroad from
ocean to ocean across Argentina and
Chile. William Wheelwright organized
the Pacific Steam Navigation company,
which later on went Into the hands of
English capitalists, and which still has
the most powerful fleet on the west coast.
The first railroads up the Andes were
built by Americans. The most wonderful
of them were the work of Henry Melggs,
who had made millions in California about
the time that gold was discovered there.
Iter on he failed, and then came to
Chile, where he made millions more. It
was Melggs who built the first railroad
from Valparaiso to Santiago. He con
structed the first and most difficult part
of Peruvian Southern that now goes up
tho Andes to Cuzco and Lake Tltlcaca,
and Is a part of the through line to La
Pax. Bolivia. Melggs also built the Cen
tral railway back of Lima, a road that
will eventually be extended Into the Ama
on valley. United States proposals to
that effect having been made within the
last few years. The Central railway was
perhaps the most remarkable feat of civil
engineering ever performed. There Is not
a rack and pinion section connected with
It, and nevertheless It ascends to an alti
tude of three mll In the course of one
hundred miles, and the cars go over com
paratively easy grades to that point.
Promoter Hlg Man.
Melggs was a big man. and was not
afraid to deal In big money. Had he
lived today he would have been In the
same class with J. Plerpont Morgan and
Edward Henry Harrlraan. He offered to
Improve the Valparaiso harbor at a cost
of 140,000,000, If the Chilean government
would give him a nlnety-nlne-year lease
of the sheltered side of the port. The
government declined, and thereby lost
million, which loss It Is now trying to
repair by putting millions Into the pres
ent harbor tmprovments.
Among other Americans who have made
fortunes In Chile were Don Juan Foster,
whose family Is still prominent; Benjamin
Bernstein, who married Into the Coualno
millions, and George B. Chace, the silver
king. Chace failed as a mining pros
pector In California and came to Chile.
He here fell In with an old priest who
told him of a silver mine that had been
worked by the Spaniards 100 years and
more ago. The priest had a record
of the mine's location In the archives of
a.BtrijFBAiUEt,
Sanatorium
English Channel
Tunnel Advocates
Helped by the War
LONDON. Sept. 26-The claeh of war
among the nations of Europe has not
modified the views of the supporters of
tho channel tunnel scheme, whose desire
to build a tunnel from Dover to Calais
has been blocked for years by the mili
tary authorities on the ground that It
would destroy England's Insularity.
Several peers and members of Parlia
ment who have for long ehown an Inter
est In the scheme declare that Instead of
proving of assistance to the enemy, a
channel tunnel would have been ot su
preme assistance in transporting the Brit
ish army.
They declare they will continue thp ad
vocacy of the tunnel at the end of the
war. The precautions suggested to pre
vent the tunnel being made use of for an
Invasion of England Include the flooding
of a dip In the tunnel, coinmandlng(erlt
with guns that could be silenced from the
sea, and an electric button that
loui'n on an explosion to aestroy a
of the tunnel If necessary.
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Clnsse will bo held at V. M. C. A. building,
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CALIFORNIA FRANK'S WILD WEST
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THE PANAMA CANAL The only
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THE HUMAN BUTTERFLY Omar
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THE MARVELS OF THE UNIVERSE-
A coterie of Kjist Indian Magicians, Con
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