Show I f I I I GIANT SHIP SHIPMENT OF RUBBER RECEIVED One Ono of at tho the greatest shipments of or rubber tubber tub rub ber ever r received in America In n a single single sin sin- gle lot Is proceeding across cross country from San Francisco to Detroit in a 11 special train of or six twenty cars The wel weight ht of or tho the shipment is pounds The Tho rubber Is consigned ned to the thc Morgan Mor Mor- Morgan gan an Wright right tire tiro plant of or the th United States Rubber tubber company It Jt arrived cl In San Son Francisco from Singapore on Ih the Siberia Maru on March 1 J and represents represents part of ot the thc large of ot crude rubber held back in the tho far farcau cast u I by the embargo on on n lm importations To the rubber expert a n shipment of ot this tItI size Is H Ii matter of amazement ama more than to the era a average t e man unacquainted with tho lie Infinitely slow process by which such stores store of oC rubber are built up tsp The Thc shipment in question n represents the entire production of ot about rubber trees for or an entire year and the thc labor of or more than 1000 men mentor for tor tho the same period Every ory working da day of ot the tho year car the tappers visit every tree collecting the thc latex and making fresh tresh cuts in the bark From tho the new cuts the tho valuable valuable valuable able rubber fluid lIe begins to drip Into the tho porcelain cup cups An Any ono one watching the slow drip would marvel that so slow a process could over ever produce a 3 trainload of or crude crudo rubber Each Ench trees tree's contribution Is less than two-tenths two of or orm an m ounce of ot rubber a they dc- or about four pou pounds a year The great reat plantation of ot the United States Rubber Hubber company compan In Sumatra with Its seventy se square miles of trees an and l its occupies a n strategic position among American rubber rubber rub rub- ber manufacturers |