Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — Chilian Miners Powerful. [ARTICLE]

Chilian Miners Powerful.

pjrhaps the greatest weights borne * or any distance on men’s backs are the oads of ore brought up from the Siin# ot the AD(les b y ‘he mln ers of £hil? ‘Darwin visited a copper jnipe j,j u i ravine leading from the main j.yjjle of the Cordilleras, where tho horli was carried on by such primitive fo ea *B that, though the mines had jiggn i worked in the mountains for at * at |two centuries, the water was rev '1 In some by carrying it up snafte lea ther bags 011 inen ’ s ba cks. Sir ; Francis Head, when visiting a simila r mine - found-that all the ore waß c arried up to the surface, a vertc4l q limb of 430 feet, by tbe mlnersanil' t bat tlle average weight carried was fi* 50 P° un ds. This loud was not cathW U P a winding Btalr * but BP r,*otcJie d trunks of trees, set almost uprfg*t J ne touching another. The fo °d of the Chilian miner, accoidinr to Darwin, consisted of rations I’s slx teen figs and two small loaves of bread for breakfast; for dlnner pjiled beans, for supper wheat crushed and roasted. They scarcely ever ta s f ed Bieat.