Show HIGH GH RUBBER PRICE LAID TO DEMANDS The Wild Speculation in the English Market Also is i Held Responsible I IThe I The world is watching the high flight of crude rubber prices and won wondering wondering dering whether rth the limit has been I reached Since Sinca the day ay when wh n Charles Goodyear first discovered the art rt of I vulcanization the rubber milk of ot the tropical forest has played a apart part of ot in increasing Increasing i creasing importance In supplying art arti articles I des cles of necessity to the comfort of man i kind i For fifty years the price of crude I rubber has ha averaged considerably less i than 1 I per pound two years ago it stood cents cen per pound and today to today 1 day it is above 3 33 a level that takes it out of many a afield a field it has hereto heretofore heretofore fore tore occupied Are the causes artificial or natural that have produced the present situa situation situation tion and is the world to be ha deprived I of the great boon of ot cheap rubber These are the questions that the people are asking themselves sand and that led F FA FA Fd I A d c ur j of ot investigation through South Ameri America ca that took two months time and more than 2000 miles of travel In the district of ot the Amazon river Mr being so far as known the first American rubber manufacturer to make this p perilous trip his views which follow are or ot great Interest The high prices prevailing for crude rubber are fairly attributed to two primary mary causes First the abnormal draff t upon the worlds supply in providing tires for automobiles second the wild wildin speculation In rubber and rubber shares In England which has taken on the aspect of or a South Sea Bubble in la ina Ina laa a mad scramble of people of all classes to get gel rich quick on rubber er London Is the financial centre of the worlds rubber market and the craze craze now run running ning its course there Is s havinga a tremendous tre tremendous tremendous sentimental influence toward lifting prices This will correct Itself In the collapse which in due time Is certain to come com and will wUl carry with it Its trail of ot disaster and ruin to the rubber gamblers In the manner always ys attending the bursting of ot financial bubbles Stories are being circulated to the effect that the rubber supply is being beige rapidly exhausted and that world is s faint a famine tamine but a careful yew view of the situation st atlon Justifies an opposite opinion The past year Tear ye r more than lOOM tons of ot crude rubber having a value ap approximating approximating were were pro produced produced of o which tons qs came came out of the Amazon river Iver This was wass Wholly wild rubber gathered almost most entirely from a belt extending along the Ama A edits J tributaries ies 7 e than three miles into the interior The vast forest beyond these borders is sub substantially substantially substantially untouched but with the building of the railroad around the falls of the Madeira which will wUl be completed in 1911 and with the Build Building buildIng ing of ot roads through the forest con connecting connecting up rivers the Introduction of ot the tho automobile and the gasoline g boat vast districts heretofore inaccessible will be brought within reach of or the rubber gatherer and while the gain in production each year has been een approximately mutely m but 10 per cent over the previous pus ous year there is no n question that this percentage will Increase largely from this time forward Users of rubber Ures tires on account of the present high prices will have thought toward prolonging their life lite and increasing their mileage which can cann readily be tie done dono by carrying proper pressure of ot air Watching Hatching the and of brakes will largely extend ext nd the life of ot the treads Tread cuts that reach the fabric should be b quickly re repaired repaired repaired paired to prevent moisture reaching the cotton thread |