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Description:: Two surviving Decauville Rail System wheels, embossed with “Decauville Aine Petit-Bourg IS80,” and found near the ingenio site, are today in the collection of a hotel in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno. Traction-powered rail systems designed for transporting harvested intact cane stalks from the fields employed long platform trucks with eight wheels on 20 inch gauge tracks of 14 lb rails with fixed sleepers. Each cart with iron baskets held up to 1300 lbs and was pulled by oxen tethered with long yolks on each side of the track.
Subjects:: Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
Subjects Facet:: San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Sugar Machinery; Transportation
Creator:: Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:: Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:: 2015
Date searchable:: 2015
Date searchable:: 2015-7-14
Genre:: Digital image
Genre Facet:: Digital image
Format:: image
Identifier:: Fig. 4.15
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):: El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:: El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:: 2015

Description:: This photograph was taken by Capt. Rollo Beck in 1905. It is of a triple effect vacuum evaporator manufactured by McOnie Harvey & Co., Ltd., Glasgow. Sugar was concentrated by passing cane liquor through three vessels, each with an increasingly higher vacuum and lower temperature in order to achieve evaporation. Not only did the evaporator reduce the amount of required fuel through steam re-circulation and evaporation at lower temperatures, but it also protected the sugar product from destruction at higher temperatures.
Subjects:: Hacienda El Progreso;
Subjects Facet:: Galapagos Islands; San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Sugar Machinery
Creator:: Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:: Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:: 1905
Date searchable:: 1905
Date searchable:: 1905
Genre:: Photographic Print; Digital image
Genre Facet:: Photographic Print; Digital image
Format:: image
Rights:: Copyright
Location(s):: El Progreso (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:: El Progreso (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:: 2019
Commentary:: California Academy of Sciences. CAS G71.5 , Rollo and Ida Beck Collection, Box 40, MSS.036

Description:: The stub of a volcanic stone and mortar structure lies directly across and down slope from the adjoined basins. On its east side is a tunnel opening that is connected to the base of the smoke stack. Conceivably, water from the cisterns was channeled toward boilers heated above the structure with the underground tunnel.
Subjects:: Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
Subjects Facet:: San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Sugar Machinery
Creator:: Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:: Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:: 2014
Date searchable:: 2014
Date searchable:: 2014-7-14
Genre:: Digital image
Genre Facet:: Digital image
Format:: image
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):: El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:: El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:: 2014

Description:: The largest preserved feature is an approximately 3.5 m² by 4 m high structure which may have been part of the tall central building that dominated the historic ingenio. This structure may have been vented by the chimney in the historic photo. Constructed of finished volcanic rock and mortar, it has an arched opening on its western side which leads into a deep pit which likely functioned as the combustion chamber.
Subjects:: Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
Subjects Facet:: San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Sugar Machinery
Creator:: Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:: Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:: 2016
Date searchable:: 2016
Date searchable:: 2016-8-14
Genre:: Digital image
Genre Facet:: Digital image
Format:: image
Identifier:: Fig. 4.9
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):: El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:: El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:: 2016

Description:: Today, preserved equipment from the sugar mill survives as decorations. Top, left: Spur Wheel and Pinion Decorating the Entrance to El Ceibo. Top, right Press Wheels and Rollers Decorating the middle of the Roundabout at El Rondel. Bottom, George L. Squier Cane Press Displayed at the Entrance to a Hotel in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno.
Subjects:: Hacienda El Progreso; ingenio
Subjects Facet:: San Cristóbal Island (Galapagos Islands); Sugar Factories; Sugar Machinery
Creator:: Dr. Peter W. Stahl
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Contributors:: Dr. Peter Stahl
Date:: 2015
Date searchable:: 2015
Date searchable:: 2015-7-20
Genre:: Digital image
Genre Facet:: Digital image
Format:: image
Identifier:: Fig. 4.12
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Location(s):: El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Location(s) Facet:: El Progreso, (Galapagos Islands);Galapagos Islands
Date Digitized:: 2015
Commentary:: photo by Fernando Astudillo

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