Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-14 | Page 4 | The Mountain Rubber Industry

THE MOUNTAIN RUBBER INDUSTRY. Any one who will examine the crude products of tho plant from which It If cxpoctcd to make a true India rubber, a plant which grows in' profusion ln the mountains but whoso propertied have only recently been discovered, must be convinced that there Is nn excellent prospect of making a paying Industry out of the buslnos-s of raising the planl and treating commercially Ity product. At present tho groat plentlfulnoas ot this plant around Salldn, Colorado, Iiv-duces Iiv-duces the company which if undertaking underta-king the exploitation of this Industry, lo put its- plant In that placa Mr. John Beck, so well known hero In connection with the Bullion-Beck mine at Eureka, and other matters of Interest, is vlce-prcsjdont vlce-prcsjdont and manager of tho new company, com-pany, It ls proposed to propogato the plant, extract Us juices, and make tho rubbor Mr. Beck says that ho has been offered eighty cents a pound for the crude rubber rub-ber produced, whllo tho cost of producing produc-ing it Is fifteen cont3. At this rate, tho profit lo a prlzo Indeed, and unless tho processes of treating the plant are patented, pat-ented, there will ho plenty of competition competi-tion with the proved succc3 of the new enterprise. With that success, a brand-new industry in-dustry will have been added to tho activities ac-tivities of tho mountain region; and It will be an Industry In which there Is great profit from a weed heretofore considered con-sidered entirely worthless. That tho factory lw Sallda may be a brilliant success, suc-cess, and that tho ono promised by Mr. Beck for Utah may bo speedily put In, must be the hope of every one Interested in the Industrial development of tho country.