As every week, we publish below our "Memorial Album - Image Our Earth, "the CEPH page has been prepared for the newspaper El Llanquihue, with our archive material and information provided by the community. The issue of the journal corresponds to Saturday, December 19, 2009, and corresponds to A2 of the newspaper page in the printed paper.
ENLARGE To see this page on the website of newspaper El Llanquihue, click here SAN JUAN DE DIOS CHURCH
Then the founding of Puerto Montt, the main concern of the authorities of the Colony of Llanelli was the religious care of its population. For this reason, in mid-1854 he built the first church in the city, which was located according to the latest local research, in the square that faces the research building, street corner Egaña Serena. On 2 August of that year, was the blessing of this church, known as "San Juan de Dios" ceremony performed by the priest of Calbuco, P. Antonio Barrientos, who at first sporadically and traveled to Puerto Montt to celebrate Mass and deliver the sacraments, until he was moved later and definitively to take charge of the church. After taking office, instructed the carpenter Matías Doggenweiler the construction of two towers to the temple. After the arrival of the Jesuits to the city in 1859, Fr Engbert Bernardo took over the church in 1861. A violent storm knocks down a tower in 1862, given the ruinous state in which he found afterwards, was closed for religious and demolished in early 1865. The image, captured in 1862 (author unknown), which corresponds to a section of the first known photograph of the city, shows the right side of the church with its two towers.
 AIRMAIL FIRST
On December 11, 1916, the prominent civil aviator of that time, the pilot David Fuentes Soza, aboard his two-seater monoplane Bleriot, nicknamed "Talcahuano" successfully completes the "First Raid air between the cities of Puerto Montt Ancud and" ride which carries a passenger (Federico Mücke) and "a package containing the first arrival by air mail to Puerto Montt, "which was delivered to the Postmaster, Aristides Diaz, after the aircraft descended. The knowledge of this incident a few years ago by local historians, information was widely published by the newspaper El Llanquihue on 12 December 1916, turned this event into the "First Air Mail and South Chile, three years before what was described in the country as the first airmail (1 January 1919, between Santiago and Valparaiso, by the aviator Clodomiro Figueroa Ponce). The correspondence carried on that occasion, he had a Mayor's Office of Ancud, Luis Alvarez Gallo, addressed to the Mayor of Puerto Montt, Christian Brahm, which realized this feat. The trip was not without problems. Ancud After leaving the 10th of December, the aircraft was lost in the fog, the compass was not working properly and diversion from its path by a strong wind, so it had to land on the beach Contao. From there, the pilot boat navigating in search of fuel Calbuco and returns. The next day, manages to take off from a track made by locals improvised landing at Puerto Montt at 18:00 hrs. on the forecourt of the railway station before a large crowd. The photograph, author unknown, shows the moment the plane about to take off from the city of Ancud.
arrival of the railroad during the period Wolleter Mayor Eduardo Fierro (1905-1914) took shape one of the most important transformations of the city: the extension of the railway to Puerto Montt. The proposed construction of the railway between Osorno and Puerto Montt talks begun in 1905 during the government of President Germain Riesco, and was approved in late 1906, President Pedro Montt. Considered a laying of 126 kms. to be implemented within five years, beginning on June 12, 1907. The work was awarded to the company of Don Pedro Rosselot, with the participation of about 500 workers, which was completed on October 15, 1911, beginning the interim operation of the railway. In late July 1912 began to operate passenger and cargo following year. The image, by an unknown author, shows the first railway station, immediately after its construction in 1913.
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