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

| CuIltleS, The qualification which rn
cent results have excited Ia, IL must he
eamitted, aoundautly justified by the
tuSts' NO newly created or discovered
INDUSTRY mas made such progress OF
mas SO brilliantly fulfilled the hopes M
lts sponsors as that Of rubber cultl.
walton Companies which only n Few
| years ago We're virtually unknown and
| were negligible quantity so far ms
/ the general investor wns concerned
nave since reported profits and de.
| clared dividends we'll calculated IN
make shareholders IN old fashioned in
| austrlal enterprises green with envy.
Ioal ana iron companies, catering
companies motor manufacturing COM
! pailies during the past year or so have
made big profits, but the return the,
make on their capitals sinks into in
significance beside that which has
been the happy lot of the rubber share
hoider And yet rubber planting is
comparatively speaking an infant "
dustrsy. To what heights of prosperity
1t VIII attain when its existence is
measured by decades and not by years.
even the least sangune prophet can
hardly dare to say"
SO rapidly has the business devel-
opeu UNIT the British government EN-
ployes a staff of scientists whose duty
onstrate the best methods of growing.
cultlVating and tapping the trees and
coagulating the milk into rubber. The
results are given to the planters with
out charge. 1t was through their ex.
perlments, extending over a period of
Tour years, that the new or spiral.
system OF tapping was discovered. This
mas increased the output over the olo
N-shaped' method as five is 20 one.
al h.aVH .1E
would supply one pound under the "
cut will, under the spiral" system
produce five pounds. without the least
injury 10 the tree.
Inc tapping of rubber tree can be
llkened to the cutting of ones finger.
The cut will bleed to a certain limit,
but VIII then cease hard crust forms
over the wound which eventually falls
OFF, leaving the new skin or bark as
sound as ever The tree can be cut
again in the Identical spot
The cultivation of this very neces-
saly commodity in tropical Mexico Ii
just commencing to attract the atten>
ton Of thinking people In tho United
States The industry has been looked
upon as being Of a more or less freak
ish nature. and IT is only those who
are far-sighted who have taken the
pains to investigate and then. upon
the courage of their convictions, have
invested their money i'm the enternrisc.
As an experiment the industry has had
its day and has now resolved itself lit
To a permanent thing.
Up to 1906 the shipments OF planta-
ton rubber from Ceylon or the Malay
states amounted TO less than 200 tons,
and 1t was this amount coming into the
London market that created the boom"
above referred to. In an able editorial
which appears In the July number OF
the India Rubber World, a recognized
authority on all things pertaining to
rubber, It IL stated that during 1907
$50 tons Of plantation rubber were
shipped from one town located in the
Mexican "rHrhhcr belt" One hundred
and fifty tons have been shipped from
the same place from January to June,
1905. Now this is more rubber than
was shipped from Ceylon in any year
prior to 1906 1t Is more than was
shipped from the Malay states in any
year before that date which, as stated
before, caused the rubber boom" IN
England, and 1t has come about SO
quietly that most persons who reau
these lines will probably be surprised.
One hundred and eighty tons or so OF
rubber considered alone is not of so
much Importance, considered as the
product of planted "Castilloa" trees in
Mexico and evidence that such trees
can be cultivated prohtably, it is a
matter of very real Importance to the
owners of several millions of planted
trees who have been waiting for assur-
ances that their money had not been
brown away.