Show kubler and rubber goods how much pure rubber is contained in the manufactured article about 70 per cent the lest para gum costs ninety five cents a pound so you sea rubber boots and ehrea cannot le made for nothing in the smallest rubber shoe made there are about four ounces of pure rubber and from that to probably four pounds in a pair of rubber boots old rubbers are ground up lining and all into what we call rag carpet and it is used for insoles in soles the work is nearly all done by hand and in the factories are employed young children men and women A gets twenty cents a pair for making them and a good man can turn out from ten to twelve pairs a day there are between fifteen and twenty rubber boot and shoe factories in alie country with a total capacity of over pairs of boots and shoes a day there are four factories having a capacity of over pairs each and one which has a capacity of pairs it is a mystery where they all go to denver news |