Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-29

ANNING with the worlds great
est commercial necessities, such
N as iron, steel and copper, is rub
} Der While England, France,
Germany and other European countries
have been searching the utmost ends
If the earth for localities where this
commodity will grow and can be OBJ
,a,ned in commercial quantities, the
1-nited states Is just waking up to the
FAC, that at her door In the rubber
h.t'' of tropical Mexico Is the finest
rubber growing country In the world.
saws the Portland Journal
This valuable article Is obtained by
"tapping," or cutting the trees from
which the milk or lateX flows, This
,s caught in suitable reCeptacles and
passed through process of coagula-
lion which consists of the separating of
The rubber from the water and other in
gradients with which nature mixes II.
The result from this process forms the
crude rubber of commerce. II is then
passod through q vulcanlzing process
in the factories and Is made into the
thousand ana one articles required by
the trade.
There are two species Of rubber tree
from which the article is readily OBJ
tanned in commercial quantities. The
Hevea Brasiliensls and the Castilloa
Elastica, The former is a native of
the Amazon basin, while the latter
grows Wild in Mexico and Central
America, The Castilloa natures at the
EARLY age of five years land can be
tapped at four years. and is Il prolific
producer. 1t attains a goat size. up to
even five and six feet in diameter. and
is tree of long life, attaining an
age of 100 years at least.
1t has been demonstrated that these
trees are susceptible to cultivation and
respond readily TO ordinary care. There
is no comparison between the size of
the wild and cultivated tree of the
same age. In the case OF the former.
the seed takes root in the dense Jungle
where the young plant receives no
sunlight and where II is surrounded by
a multitudinous mass of tropical vcae-
tation. and responds but slowly. on
the other hand the cultivated tree is
carefully tended during it's nursery
days and Is then set out in suitably
prepared clearing where it obtains an
abundance of sunshine and responds
very rapidly TO its cultivation.
The world is and has heretofore de-
pended upon the native gatharel for its
supply. This gatherer is an ignorant
native Indian with no thought beyond
the needs of today The consequence ia
that Instead of properly tapping the
wild tree he finds while cutting his way
through the dense Jungle he cuts them
down, simply because he can by that
means ,ain all the rubber the tree
has in II. This ruthless destruction
Of theso valuable trees has been going
on for fully 30 years and the world is
now facing gradually increasing rub
Der shortage. These conditions have
led TO the formation OF rubber planta-
IONS winch, from what might be term
ca experiments of few years ago, has
developed INTO most important mad
Profitable industry
Returns from rubber plantations we're
Msrt received from Ceylon and the
Malay states where a number of large
English plantation companies are i'm
successful operation All of these are
lolnl stock corporations, their stocks
being listed on the London exchange.
and II Is notable fact that during the
recent panic rubber shares. some of
iasin quoted as high as 10 times their
l2f value, were the only securities that
4sd their own and actually advanced
uHing the general depression.
me F1nancler ana Bullionist. the old
ast London financial daily, has this TO
ay about rubber shares:
Nothing succeeds like success. and
it is not surprising to find
hat persons who had hardly good
word to say for rubber shares a little
line back are now busily engaged M
pointing out the attractions of such Sc.