Text for the visitor at the Historic and industrial Museum of Pto. Bories This place, called Pto. Bories in honour of Carlos Bories, former (Governor of the Magallanes District between 1898 and 1904. is localed at 5 km. (1 miles) away North from Puerto Natales, at the sea shore of the small bay called “Ultima Esperanza” (Last Hope) . It was the place chosen by European Pioneers to raise and build a big cold-storage Plant by the end of the XIX century. This represents a great part of the local history. We want to recognize them sincerely for all their hard work done. They were men that made good perspectives and built these magnificent buildings made of bricks and who were able to generate electricity and coldness based on steam. We also have to remember some relevant historic events, which allow us to understand the process of occupation and population of the Chilean Patagonia. The name Magallanes comes from the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, who was serving Spain in 1520 at the time of the discovery. He discovered a maritime pass that linked two oceans, Pacific and Atlantic. Today, this pass is named “Estrecho de Magallanes” (Magellan Strait). In its seashore you can find the capital city of the district of Magallanes: Punta Arenas (Sandy Point). 37 years later, in 1557, another Spanish navigator called Juan Ladrilleros trying to find an entrance of the discovered Strait but from Pacific towards Atlantic Ocean, went through these waters, passing just in front of where we are now and thinking that this pass was leading him towards the Magellan Strait, Then, he was tired of the long trip and named this place: “Ultima Esperanza” (Last Hope), name that this channel and the Province bears today. Eventually, he navigated until the end of it, he arrived at the mouth of a big river and a mountainside exposed to blizzards, today called “Serrano”. You can admire it from this spot. Ladrilleros emphasized the beauty of the place. Nevertheless, when he realized that he was in a different pass he had to went back and continued going to the South. For 300 years from those days, Palagonia seemed to be sleeping and forgotten. It was not an important place for the predominant Great Empires of the time. However, brave navigators coming from Europe that dared to navigate the hard conditions of the southernmost seas did considered Patagonia. Chile, as an independent country, took possession of Magellan Strait in 1843 and founded the city of Punta Arenas in 1848. In the following decades, many immigrants arrived. They were mainly from Switzerland, Germany, U.K., Italy, Spain, Croatia, among many other countries. They were looking for a better future for their families. They were attracted by the thriving industry of cattle breeding which started in 1877, when 300 sheep arrived coming from Falkland Island, alt of them brought by the British citizen Enrique Reynard. Besides, the Panama Canal did not exist yet so, a lot amount of vessels navigated through the Magellan Strait, connecting this place to the rest of the world. In the late XIX century, the introduction of wool in the countryside of Patagonia had a great impact in Ihe social, labour, familiar and industrial activity, it developed very quickly. Big Farms started to appear, everyplace started to be inhabited and this situation raised enthusiasm in enterprising and hard working pioneers like the German man Rodolfo Stubenrauch. In 1896 he started a Tallow shop, sheds to slaughter animals, skins drier
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Text for the visitor at the Historic and industrial Museum of Pto. Bories
This place, called Pto. Bories in honour of Carlos Bories, former (Governor of the
Magallanes District between 1898 and 1904. is localed at 5 km. (1 miles) away North from
Puerto Natales, at the sea shore of the small bay called “Ultima Esperanza” (Last Hope). It
was the place chosen by European Pioneers to raise and build a big cold-storage Plant
by the end of the XIX century. This represents a great part of the local history. We want
to recognize them sincerely for all their hard work done. They were men that made good
perspectives and built these magnificent buildings made of bricks and who were able to
generate electricity and coldness based on steam.
We also have to remember some relevant historic events, which allow us to understand the
process of occupation and population of the Chilean Patagonia. The name Magallanes
comes from the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, who was serving Spain in
1520 at the time of the discovery. He discovered a maritime pass that linked two oceans,
Pacific and Atlantic. Today, this pass is named “Estrecho de Magallanes” (Magellan
Strait). In its seashore you can find the capital city of the district of Magallanes: Punta
Arenas (Sandy Point).
37 years later, in 1557, another Spanish navigator called Juan Ladrilleros trying to find an
entrance of the discovered Strait but from Pacific towards Atlantic Ocean, went through
these waters, passing just in front of where we are now and thinking that this pass was
leading him towards the Magellan Strait, Then, he was tired of the long trip and named this
place: “Ultima Esperanza” (Last Hope), name that this channel and the Province bears
today. Eventually, he navigated until the end of it, he arrived at the mouth of a big river and
a mountainside exposed to blizzards, today called “Serrano”. You can admire it from this
spot. Ladrilleros emphasized the beauty of the place. Nevertheless, when he realized that he
was in a different pass he had to went back and continued going to the South.
For 300 years from those days, Palagonia seemed to be sleeping and forgotten. It was not
an important place for the predominant Great Empires of the time. However, brave
navigators coming from Europe that dared to navigate the hard conditions of the
southernmost seas did considered Patagonia.
Chile, as an independent country, took possession of Magellan Strait in 1843 and founded
the city of Punta Arenas in 1848. In the following decades, many immigrants arrived. They
were mainly from Switzerland, Germany, U.K., Italy, Spain, Croatia, among many other
countries. They were looking for a better future for their families. They were attracted by
the thriving industry of cattle breeding which started in 1877, when 300 sheep arrived
coming from Falkland Island, alt of them brought by the British citizen Enrique
Reynard. Besides, the Panama Canal did not exist yet so, a lot amount of vessels navigated
through the Magellan Strait, connecting this place to the rest of the world.
In the late XIX century, the introduction of wool in the countryside of Patagonia had a
great impact in Ihe social, labour, familiar and industrial activity, it developed very quickly.
Big Farms started to appear, everyplace started to be inhabited and this situation raised
enthusiasm in enterprising and hard working pioneers like the German man Rodolfo
Stubenrauch. In 1896 he started a Tallow shop, sheds to slaughter animals, skins drier
and bales, a sawmill, four houses and a Pier. That year, in this spot it was an starting point
for the progressive thriving industry.
In 1906, all the facilities mentioned before were sold to the a Society called “Sociedad
Explotadora de Tierra del Fuego”, in order to begin the construction of a big freezing
Industry to slaughter, process and export to Europe frozen Lamb from Chilean and
Argentinean Patagonia.
The Company “SEFT” started with the new buildings in 1915 This Company enjoyed a
great hierarchy in architecture and technologic equipments, one of the best of Chile and
South Arnerica. This year, a large-scale lamb processing company started..
This industry called Pto. Bories worked for seven decades, generating job positions and
helping to populate Patagonian area. We could say that is why the city of Puerto Natales
was founded in 1911. This Company was the industrial lifeblood of the “Ultima
Esperanza” Province, with sheep production Farms like “Cerro Guido” (Guido Hill),