CERRO DE PASCO, or PASCO  , a See also:

• MINING

mining See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• PERU
• PERU (apparently from Biru, a small river on the west coast of Colombia, where Pizarro landed)

Peru, See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

• JUNIN

Junin, 107 M . (22, M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail, via Oroya) N.E. of See also:

• LIMA

Lima . Pop . (1907 est.) 10,000 . It is situated on the See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

plateau of Bombon, 14,280 ft. above See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level, and in the midst of one of the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest and richest See also:

• SILVER

silver-mining districts of Peru . There were 342 silver mines in this See also:

• DISTRICT

district in 189o, and at the end of the ,9th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century the See also:

• AVERAGE

average See also:

• ANNUAL

annual output since the See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of the mines in 163o was estimated at 1,600,000 oz . A decline in the silver See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production having set in, the See also:

• AMERICAN

American See also:

• COMPANY

company which had become owners of three-fourths of the mining properties in the district turned its See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to the extensive See also:

• COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper deposits there, built a railway to Oroya 83 M. distant, another, 25 M. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, to the See also:

• COAL

coal-See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields of Gollarisquisga, See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of Pasco, and then erected large smelting See also:

• WORKS

works (in which 2500 men were regularly employed in 1907) 8 m. out of town and 4 M. from See also:

• LIMESTONE

limestone beds . The railway to Oroya was completed in 1903, the coal mine See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch and smelter later on, and in 1907 the copper output was 20,152,000 lb . The town of Pasco is badly built and unattractive, and is inhabited chiefly by mining labourers and their families . Its See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population is increased 50% in times of See also:

• GREAT

great mining activity . The name Cerro de Pasco is that of a " See also:

• KNOT
• KNOT (O.E. cnotta, from a Teutonic stem knutt; cf. " knit," and Ger. knoten)

knot " of mountains uniting the two great ranges of the See also:

• ANDES

Andes at this point .