Detailed Description
Title: Estatutos de la Compañía Minera del Tolima
Creator: Trujillo, Valentiín & Others
Publication Info: Neiva (Huila) (Tolima) : Alejandro Rojas, Editor., 1881.
Physical Details: 1-26 pp. ; 24 2/10 x 16 cms.
Physical Condition: Frayed wrappers, interior good.
Summary: A detailed description of the workings of the Tolima Mining Company at the end of the nineteenth century.
Historical Notes: Even if the coffee industry came to dominate the Colombian economy since the nineteenth century, other activities also occupied a share in the country's exports. One such economic activity was the mining industry that had its history in the colonial period. Thus, when the coffee exports decreased in the early twentieth century, Colombian governments relied on cotton cultivation, cattle raising, and mining to attenuate the export deficit. (See for example, David Bushnell, The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, p. 169.)
Donor Notes: The statues of the Tolima mining company. - J.L.H.
Subject(s): Colombia -- Mining and mineral resources -- 19th century
Colombia -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Type: Pamphlet
Language: Spanish
Donor: Helguera, J. León
Collection: Helguera, J. León Collection
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Accession Number: P00724
Record Number: 583