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THBMining Report on Placer Dredging Property in Peru, with Tipped-In Photographs
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Notebook, 8.75 x 11 in., with two brass brads holding pages in place. Leather covers, with "L.W. Lawrence 91547" in gilt on inside front cover. Title page with "Report on the Chaquiminas Placer Dredging Property located in the Province of Sandia Peru." 24pp of text, 19 tipped in images, two pages of printed copies of blueprints. No date evident on any illustration or text. Likely turn of the 20th century. The Mining Engineer, Volume 30 (Mineral Industries, 1907) notes: "The placer-mining industry in the province of Sandia, flourishing in bygone ages, seems destined to re-emerge shortly from the depression in which it has long been plunged." (p. 625)
This report notes that the journey from New York to the property takes 20 to 22 days: New York to Colon by steamer; Colon to Panama by Panama RR; Panama to Mollendo, Peru by steamer; Mollendo to Tirapata by Peruvian Southern RR; and Tirapata to the property by carriage over a wagon road. It is located about one hundred miles to the North east of Lake Titicaca and 30 miles from Bolivia.
Spain, among European powers, initially worked this area, well known as gold-bearing by the Incas. Between 1800 and 1850 or so, gold production declined and North America became the predominant gold producer. Then gold was discovered in California. During the first year of the California Gold Rush, as many as 50,000 Chileans immigrated. It was so difficult to get to the Andean gold-producing areas, that it was faster and easier to get from Lima, Peru to California than from Lima to the Sandia deposits. (Monaghan, 1973: 250). Part of the issue was altitude, and workers demanded more to work in these conditions than at sea level.
References:
Mining Industries. Mining Engineer, Volume 30, 1907.
Monaghan, Jay. Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849. Univ. of California Press, 1973.
Moderate wear to the covers. Text pages clean.Condition
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