Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-11-10
THE WORLDS FAIR AS
A WOMAN SEES 1T

When in your wanderings you come
upon a shapeless chunk of swartby
stuff and eye it questionally until you
light upon the sign "Rubber!" you
sneed not start confusedly and resent
fully. for it means just simply that
and nothing more
The placard merely calls your at
tention to the stun in the crude form
In which it comes from the forest to
the market, and makes sure you do
not overlook something You might like
to see
Exhibits of raw rubber are made by
many of the countries within the great
rubber belt of the tropics. and serve
to draw attention TO very important
export, while specimens of 1t are also
Incorporated in the displays of made
up rubber goods. from teething rings
TO wagon tires, "gossamers" and gar
den hose.
Wherever It is shown it excites in
terest and promotes inquiry and brings
out various ways In which the milky
white sap is collected from the scored
bark of the rubber trees. Sometimes
II is in cakes, as when II is allowed
to run down the tree and dry on leaves
and mats spread upon the ground.
Sometimes 1t is in strings as when II
Is slowly wound upon n stick as II
exudes In. sticky thread from the in
cised bark. but always 1t presents the
same black. unsightly look which all
rubber milk assumes when exposed to
the air.
Crude rubbers from East Africa,
Costa Rica, the Philippines, Hondu-
ras, Mexico and Brazil and several
other countries are found together un-
der one roof, and there Honduras
shows a tall section of rubber tree
with slanting incisions in the bark
deyoting the manner of scoring Along
with 1t is one bottle of the milk rub
ber sap and another, which has been
accidentally broken, shows the same
sap being air-dried into an elastic
grown mass.
But while tropical countries tell of
of the gatherings of this strange sap.
for which SO many new uses are being
found. the United States shows n sim
liar process by which valuable sap
from native tree is being collected
for distlllation in the turpentine in
dustry.
Set In the walls of long shadowy
booth in the Forestry building. the
government shows scores of large
transparent pictures on glass. They
are of forest scenes all over the coun.
frxs nd eb l,n
full way of cutting timber, the ravages
of forest fires, the reforesting of strip
ped mountain sides and give many
views OF logging camps, timber raft
ing. etc.
Alone with them Is group of pic
lures showing the gathering of the
sap from the turpentine pines that are
found principally In the Southern
states. The old process is shown
where a deep suplike notch was hol-
lowed out in a tree near the ground
and above II a foot or two of the bark
removed. Then, as the odorous, resi-
nous sap oozed out IT collected in the
notch and was dipped out from time
to time and carried away Another foot
or SO of bark higher up was removed
on each OF two succeeding seasons
after which the weakened tree was cut
for timber.
Another set of pictures show how,
In the new process, the tree is barked
for space on one side and in little
slanting cuts are set small troughs of
galvanized iron that divert the flowing
sap into earthernware cups hung on
a nail lower down.
The new process shows the tree not
so deeply wounded as is the case when
4 collecting reservoir is cut In its own
trunk. But Just outside the picture
booth In Georgia's forestry exhibit
are several tall sections Of the turpen-