Agencies Colonization
In 1880 he was named Don Francisco De B. Echeverría, General Agent of Colonization in Europe, given in Paris. Later in that office will happen Agent General Benjamin Davila Larrain, who entrusted the work of recruitment of settlers to the house of Rommel Basel in Switzerland. Moreover, the preparation of the convoys meant the operation of a real network. Starting with the shipping companies, especially the English company of the Pacific ", which ensured the French port of Bordeaux, a regular line up with the vapors Valparaíso Cotopaxi, Potosi, Sorata, The Valparaíso, Aconcagua and Britain, among others, the main boats that sailed Swiss settlers. To ensure reductions in the third class and volume or weight limits for luggage.
Between April 1876 and May 1877 came to the area of Magellanes (Punta Arenas and Fresh Water) a contingent of Swiss immigrants comprising 119 families, mostly peasants from the canton of Freiburg
These farmers received some of the Chile a government hectares of unpopulated land and proceeded to transform the weeding-after years of record-labor camps suitable for pasture and planting vegetables and raising dairy cattle.
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