Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-07-16
DEsERET EVENING NEWS. SATURDAY, july 49, 1898.

fItlfNls ~ ~ IL ~
getting sick, and they d.;-.nd high
wages ana viii stay with you only q
limited time
rs there much good rubber land In
p9ilvlaG" I asked.
yves. there is plenty u soil here that
will grow the rubber tree" sai1 Herr
Viarilnd "hut 500 FAR the rubber All
r1mea from the forests. ] know OF
1niy one cultivated rubber plantation
In iha country. and this has about 100
trees. In the forests you often ind
81 many as 5000 trees 90 the square
mile. have seen groves of 10000
me trees usually grow ln the valleys
below the eastern slopes OF the Andes
your Tex to the giant W the forest. $50
faat high. and ~ large TINT three men
could not. by Joining hands. res. b
around %. The tree walsh produces
,hs best rubber of comm s known
ne the symphonic EluHiie1 W. have
plenty " Fu't1 percht trD.4. but these
have not yet been worked
A CHANCE FOR CAPITALISTS.
"ts there much profit ln the rubber
buslness here2" I asked
yves. there is n great ir1i nj money
DO b. made out of &c. hu, only ny th"
urs ~ large capital $50 mn cam do
mpch without twenty-five Ur uf.g
ih1urnnd dollars. and he viii MAX
prlp1rtlluataly q great deal more .t
he has one hundred Thousand duIllr1.
with this amount h. ought tH ngt
from co 90 20 per cent year. tn r0 s
mo- trouble for capitalists tu Frt ruU1.r
forests. The best Of iha lands upon
which such trees grow are NOW iu The
hands of Choi1F, or n1llvi1ns with In
dan blood IN them. They have taken
M the lands ~ The government ana
have no money to work ihsm.'
How DO you get the rubber from
Il, comes out In the form Of milky
white sap" was The r,p.y 'At tAg
beginning Of the dry Feaeuu ;hs trees
are gaHhHd with q chigel about lu Inch
broad. a Nitie tin Gun T. ntiHl % tn
tree under each cash ard thH alp 1Izos
out and drops down Into tho oup. H.v-
UrIl rlHhsH are made Doc each ilDo.
When the Indian has nashoi a nt-u-
Der OF trees he stops ami collects mo
milky sap from the cups. He UIU.a 10
Into tin pail and carries J.. tl tha
hnaduunrirrH ~ the camp. DC places
10 somewhere In the shade and thDu
builds a IRE 60 smoke Co., This Gre On
made u wet wood or palm nuts and o.
s - arranged as 90 rIvn dansc
rmoltc. Now the 1ndian takes wood
'u shovel or spoon and covers 10 with
mI'k. IL thHn ihruita Do into thH
smoke and rapidly turns Dc about AZ
thH smoke touches tn rubh.r-ult 90
o01vulltcs ana turns from She color Hf
rich cream q y llrht gray. We coats
hH shovel again nud again aud 1t DHt
hIH BAN no rubber upon VI. This d.
cut uf and laid away 90 o. shipped o.
th' markets 4 number ~ tha balls
arc Iui Into nets ThDHr ara alunu uu
thr backs u Iuulrs or d1nkpya and are
thus taken 81 Chliiiayl. on Lake
TltIcicl or ~ paz We have 10 watch
the Indians that they DO not put stones
or art Into their balls III rubber Co
mako ihDm woIgh heavier. This !H tho
case when they arc ptid by tho w1ri,
done rather than hy ihc day"
THE LAND on CUISINE.
This o. iha land of qulnIne. The
bark " tho clnrh1ua tree. from which
qulnlne Do mudo, o. called Peruvian
bark. but 20 would De- more in accord
with the facts - call u Bolivian bark
The best qulnIuo " Tho world h mldc
from The bark OF trees grown in the
state 81 La plz, and Bolivia far oN-
cecds Peru ln ihe number ~ her quI-
niur trees. Thor urs millions ~ trees
hero growing On plantations set out
make money out 81 the quinlnc mar.
kcL These plantations were estate
llHhad when quiuinc was hiEh and boz
fore some % the H1Gylln trees has
n.gn taken 90 india and Csylln 90
start plantations there. As a result nf
iho indian plantations the market bee
came overlooked, and qulnIne fsli
The bark which IN 1889 brought hsrc
IN IN Pas $50 IN Bolivian money a
huulfedWcight now sells for from SIC
90 liN n hundredwclght. considering
The difference IN the value 90 the Ii0-
llvlan dollar by the fail OF silver for
about ono-thlrileih what ., r0ld flr
sixteen years ago. The fan OF phcOa
ruined "a Erelt many u the Bolivian
Capitalists. Moro than 5000. 600 were
luNCaiDd lu such estates by people OF
Ia Paz ana thn foreign houses who
had advanced money on thcm were Sc
v'rely hurt Tho bark az ono time was
~ low that ., dli not pay 20 cut ID and
carry % 90 The markets. and today,
Whii' thrrs D. f1mUwhlt ~ a revival
thr margin uf urUnt ~ The business Ia
small fsH loads " clnchonn bark
here every day. Thcy are brought I'm
O. the exporters on littlc dunk.ya ar
mules, .h uf which carries 4 bundle
on each dido or hiH back ~ about 100
pounds rf"h, The most NJ this blTi,
como from villa trees which grow In
INC hD'd W1tclH uf Tho ncnl and Ma
dora F.vtrs 10 N carried FOR many
miles through tho forests on mgui1
backs, ana then loaded on the dunkpys
which bring 70 90 ~ pax. As Ear al 1 /
can learn, there is no money 10 be- |
made ln the qululnc business hy for.
.iEuera Any number OF good plantl |
lions can Dr. bought 4 rch planter
pr Interior iOllvla told mo today tbat |
he could buy mo 100000 trDfs N 1 /
wished them Tor less than cents Of |
our money tree. These trees would I
be- from rly 90 ten years of age and In /
prime condition Tor cutting down Tor /
lulnlnc This man said that the trrcs /
would zach produce az least four
pounds NJ bark, QuInine trees are |
planted nine feet apart. and at nvc |
Years uf aFf an orchard In ready for
he market, Tha trees arr then
hoppel down ana stripped of their
park Sprouts rprlng up the following
.clnln from me ttumps and az the end |
n uve years there II another crnp.
rho clnchunt trees grow Wild almost
vcrywhrrc that the rubber tree grnWa.
rhey are uften very tail and have "A
magnificent crown m foliage. which h
4 such q color that the qulnlno hunter
AN pick u out lOng distance IN look.
nF over the trees OF n forest
En ANFF a. fanlH aHuaraY I