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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III CHILE PERU WHEN I reached the west coast in 1879, the extraordinary career of Enrique Meiggs had just come to an end. He died in Lima a few months before I reached Peru. He began as a merchant, self-made, in San Francisco, and had achieved a good position and a respectable mercantile credit when his first startling scoop, as the Americans call it, was perpetrated. He possessed a yacht which lay in San Francisco Harbour, and having liquidated all his possessions and taken on board his yacht the accumulated money thus acquired, he sailed away into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared from view, leaving the country for good. No one knew what had become of him, and his disappearance was a nine days' wonder, and was soon forgotten in the Golden City. Meiggs and his yacht in a month or two sailed into Valparaiso Harbour, where no one knew anything of him. Henry Meiggs immediately, with his wealth and undoubtedbusiness energy, ingratiated himself with the Government of Chile, and before long had acquired for himself a contract to build a railway from Valparaiso up to the capital at Santiago. This was a difficult engineering venture, but was most efficiently performed, and Enrique Meiggs became a powerful and popular figure in the country. His quite legitimate profits on the building of this important railway were considerable, and he proceeded to build himself a sumptuous palace; other profitable business came to him, and when there seemed to be no more large ventures in Chile in immediate view, the enterprising Enrique cast his eye on Peru as a more inviting field for his abilities. Once more he liquidated all his wealth and transferred it away from Chile. There remained immovable, however, the celebrated Casa Meiggs, and the ingenious owner launched ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217235624 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021723562X |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $24.02 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 164 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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