tramway will be built direct to the Corocoro mines, with lateral lines extending to all the productive mines of this district.
Within the next year, this company will employ five steamers and one hundred barges in handling the lake and river traffic in connection with the Mollendo and Puno Railway. This company is also preparing to build furnaces and import the necessary coke from Europe to smelt the low-grade copper not now exported. With the increased transportation facilities thus being provided for handling Bolivian copper, its exportation is certain to become, in the near future, one of the largest and most profitable industries of the country. The amount exported from Bolivia for the calendar years 1890 and 1891 inclusive, according to official returns, was as follows:
Amount of copper barrilla exported from Corocoro, department of La Paz, Bolivia, for the year 1890.
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