The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-11

IS being all that lney arc IePicSeu
Thos. Gillard, Elgin, Ill.
Pleasant, PalatabIe. Potent. Taste GOOD
no Good Never Sicken, I'VE akcn or Gripe
i0c pc SOC Never sold In bulk. The gen
nine tablet stamped c c. Guaranteedta
slrn o. your pooncy oaS&-
waterproofng cloth, hence the name
" Macintosh for rubber SarhohIs w,
dav. but the original Macintoshes were
carly affected by tcmperature-hard IN
cold and soft in warm weather-and
there was a bad odor about them.
Goodyear Father of Industry.
II remained for an American, Yam
kec native of Connecticut, Charles
| Goodyrar, to devise and patent pro.
cess that appeared successful ana en-
pacc in the manufacture of lndia'rub-
! her goods The material proved not 10
bc lasting, he failed and was reduced
to poverty. One OF ms employees ha9
noticed the effect of sulphur sprlnkled
mon rubber when left in the sun. He
| patented the process. Goodyear pur-
| chased the patent, continued eXperi-
mentinr and accidentally discovered
| the process of vulcaniZing rubber by
! heating it with sulphur at moderate
temperature This was in lS4l, and
from that time dates the production OF
rubber goods and the demand has grown
| continuously.
There have been many substitutes
for rubber. over 800 patents having
hoeu issued by the British patent Of
| fee TO inventors of these substitutes,
and number to American inventors.
None have thus far proved complete
success.
Rubber Found in Range.
Tn the mountain regions discoveries
of various substances which it was
thought could not, or did not, exist
in the earth are being made, and IN
the mountain fastnesses OF Wasatch
county rubber is found and mined from
! the earth. 1t is something strange,
but IL is true. II is "A mineral and
is known as tabbyite, in honor OF the
old Ute, Chief Tabby. who revealed
the whcrea bouts of this mineral, which
will revolutionize the rubber industry.
This tabbyite belongs to the hydro.
carbon family, is close relative OF
clatcrite. but, unlike the latter, is
found nowhere else in the world 1t is
not substitute for rubber. but is
almost wholly rubber. chemical an
alysis having determined no difference
between the rubber from the trees and
tabbvite. When it is realized that
this mineral. this tabbyite, is not
substitute for rubber, but is the. gen
uine article. the possibilities of the
ma IN NaSdlcN county cdH SSaicSiy oN
| appreciated.
in the one vein so far discovered
and partially developed, one million
tons of the mineral are in sight, The
magnitude of such deposit can best
be conceived after reading few facts
relative TO rubber and the rubber SIT
uation in the United States. Donald
Pearson, an expert from the east, re,
Gently paid visit 10 this rubber field
| q nfY ba
tains. In scientific magazine he pre-
scnted his .cws. as follows:
What the Field Is.
HTabbyite cannot be distinguished by
any ordinary test from the crude gen
nine rubber All the requisite charac-
teristlcs are there. The texture is the
same. as is also the bounce, Ignited. a
piece of the tabbyite -claterite substance
gives off the peculiarly pungent odor
Of burning caoutchouc. Chemical
analysis reveals about the proper pro-
portions of constituents for rubber,
SIP per cent carbon; l2.SS per cent
In 1907 the United States imported
fifty million pounds Of crude rubber,
at n purchase price of 81 a pound, al
most irrespective Of quality, Yet this
amount hardly half supplied the ma
tonal demand. Annually, beginning
many years back, the shortage has in
creased, until the long prophesied rub
beT famine begins to loom ominously
near. Worst of all, the situation is not
improved with the scientific cultiva-
tlon of the rubber tree. The new uses
for rubber arc multiplying too rapidly
for the professional planter to keep
apace.
''The growing of rubber is a slow
process II takes twelve years from the
| l,fn If fran 10 dow hon n
cultivator may hope to tap it, More
over, at the first tapping not more than
two ounces of the gum should be eX-
tracted. If the plant is to flourish. To
produce a ton of rubber by this method
requires the product of sixteen thou
sand young trees and period of twelve
years Thus If. for the year 1921, We
should wish to make provision for the
fifty million pounds we use at the pres
ent time, we should be obliged TO plant
in the year 1909 four hundred million
rubber plants. But some of them would
not come to maturity, Moreover. un-
supplied as we are now with the elastic
substance and compelled to exc out the
comparatively scanty quantity with
twice fifty million pounds, in twelve
years time, would hardly suffice. If
one fifth of the trees planted die, that
would mean the planting out this spring
of perhaps one billion rubber trees
Means Much for Utah.
In view Of these conditions, it is ap.
parent that a state that has one mil
lion tons of rubber for immediate use
is TO be envied by the world, and that
for Utah it is uncalculable, both from
an industrial and financial standpoint
From this tabbyite, samples of floor
mating, desk pads, garden hose, inter
locked tile, etc, have been manufac
tured, Of quality and durability that
put most similar articles made else
where completely i'll the background
Tabbyite makes one of the best insula
tors known TO the electrical world, ant
the big concerns of the country are
looking with anxious eyes for The
further development of the industry
here, Paint made from tabbyite II
= proof against the eorroslon of salt wa
ter and acid, or the ravages of tho clc
ments. IT stands the heat Of locomotive
engines several times longer than othe
paints made for that purpose. In