LOTA, Chile, a city in the province of Concepci6n, situated on Arauca Bay, lat. 37° 5' S. At present the centre of Chilean coal min ing, it was a fishing village until 1852, when the Cousifio family demonstrated the existence of coal there in paying quantities. The Corn pafiia Esplotadora de Lota y Coronal, formed and controlled by the same family, with capital of about $20,000,000, has mines at Playa Negra, Coronal and Buen Retiro, in addition to those at Lota. Undersea and underground galleries in the Lota mines have electric lighting and tramways. The company controls also the Lota copper-smelting, pottery, bottle and fire clay-brick works, and a fleet of coasting steam ers and sailing vessels. It provides for its workpeople free housing, schools, coal, medical attendance, hospitals and almshouses, a church and chaplain. A part of the Cousifio fortune has been employed in the creation of the fa mous park above the town, containing trees and plants from all quarters of the globe, the statue of Caupolican, by Nicanor Plaza, etc. Pop.
about 15,000.
LOTHAIR (16-thar') I, Roman emperor, eldest son of Louis-le-Debonnaire: b. about 795; d. Priim, Prussia, 29 Sept. 855. He be came associated with his father in the govern ment of the empire in 817 and was crowned and named i king of the Lombards in 820 and em peror n 823. On his father's death Louis and Charles, his brothers, joined their forces and defeated him at Fontenoy in June 841. In 843 the three brothers concluded the noted treaty of Verdun, by which Lothair retained the title of emperor, with Italy, and some French prov inces beyond the Rhine and the Rhone. Charles then became king of France and Louis received a tract of country bordering on the Rhine.