The San Francisco call., 1906-11-12

is the case with bananas The culti-
walton of rubber is expanding greatly
In various countries, but the demand
is constantly increasing.
The writer thinks the CeyIon rub
ber Is superior to that Of the Brazilian
forests because Of the better care be-
slowed upon 1t. Experts in Para say
that the best soil for rubber Is a loamy
soil with rich humus, not swampy but
still subject to rich rain showers To
succeed best they think the atmosphere
or the rubber orchard should be warm
and moist 1t would seem as II parts
OF the Amazon country contained ideal
conditions. And yet the writer re-
marks. only a Raubban-a robber or
wanton-hke gatherings liable to go
on in the Brazilian woods. This viii
yield large quantities as long as the
primeval forest furnishes trees; but.
above certain increase. the Weld will
never pass. The poorer kinds OF rub
Der are being cultivated in Central ana
southern Brazil II there is a large
increase In the better and uofddIfns- >
grades elsewhere the movement IN
Brazil may be seriously affected At
one time 1T furnished rs per cent OF
the worlds total supply. This fell or
TO half Still IT has in its soil and
climate the capacity to go up again TO
Its former position
The loss Of It's sugar trade fha, %
It's raw cotton trade, and the recsr+
falling off in receipts from cofrse has
Ied Brazil TO look for a substitute for
all these products.
This, she thinks, IS to be foupa a,
rubber. FROM Maranhao. in the nor.h
TO san Calarnta, in the south traas -
the coarser or inferior kinds are ~
ing planted These grades are inoreas-
ing In 1913 Brazil exported 622 tons OF
Maugabeira rubber worth about sIso
200. and Of Marricoba rubber f792 tors
worth S1,646.000. In 1904 she exnorts5
of these. respectively, $50 tons uo~ts
about $762.0O0s and 2216 tons yo-tr
$2.S3OsOO0- At SO cents for ~ pourds
raising rubber in Brazil does not nav
and that was the average price for fbe
inferior grades. When the exnort taS
OF % per cent OF the market nr,ca -
added, as IL Is in many provinces n1,,s
all the other costs. raising rubber -
the cheap grades is far fron, 49,.
what 1t might be or what it ought ~
be- The yield OF Para in 1S99-1q0o 49,
1857 tons, valued at S1s.9sO. 900. tbs
yield for 1904-05 was 11.74O tons. vaI,,as
at $16,S49.725. ~eu
The rubber industry has rfsa, A.
Belgium to one OF great inports,,..a =,
The port OF Antwerp Is the distribnt-
ing center OF me world for this article.
and IS at the same time the world.,
greatest market The yield Of ~
congo Free State Is sent in. wh,ch
amounts to nearly 10000 tons vsa-s..
The manufacturers do not conf,ne 49,.
operations to the Congo rubber aio~a
Iney work the South and Cent-si
America. West Indies, Madaras-a-
Java and other rubbers. The BaIrfar
manufacturers make countless varfstte.
OF articles from the product
The declared value Of tha tv,-o.
last year for Belgium use was 1SToz
l5e pounds of raw rubber. val,a6 =.
Sl4,ISS.554- Expectations were ~ ass
sI7 pounds. valued at s11.s1s.4IO' Sr
tso-,s wo.seu ruO9er the declared importa-
s65z,oS2; expectations. 340.05s nor,t.
valued at s267.423. The above ss. ss.,,...
apply only to the special commerce. - ~. -
tnar used In Belgium The ouantitte.
ana values OF that passing throu~b +hs
country Is many times in excess Of fbs
above figures "a Tue