Show Rubber Production Looms in Texas DALIAS S Tex Tx March 6 5 AP Iro AP Pro Pro ot of rubber bide bid fair lair to he become cOme an additional source of oC revenue to the Unix Un t r lt of ot Texas already rich from tram oil oile e N Ji q i 1 on nn leg it land lands In western Texas Texan Evidence ot of the new source of Income i j KO hi callus In the form torm of a guayule plant from Crom the university university's Pecos county III land landa A rood good grade Inde of commercial rubber 1 le II being manufactured manufactured Lured from frum the guayule plant Worth north of ot which already has baa been m marketed marketed mar mar- for Cor the tb university Railroad companies for tor some time have hate b been fn fn experimenting In rubber production production production pro pro- by cultivating gua guayule ule In lo localities ho 10 of western Texas Texa In the hope of developing It In sufficient quantities to o overcome to some extent British Monopoly In the product The guayule Is 1 Indigenous to sections of western an and 1 n Texas fexa Texas e t the only erste In th the Inti Onion 1 that Him a I can produce rubber in marketable quantities from the guayule plant Dallas Dal las experts pointed out Guayule yields yield 7 II to 14 11 per cent of It its ILs substance In the tho form of rubber after arter being r washed In water nater under pressure It was wal explained It can be made matte to produce rubber rubber- on only I at et an altitude of about bout 1000 feet teet In a limestone formation and In an arid and climate These conditions condition cannot be met anywhere In the United States ex except except u- u In ht southwestern Texas lexa It Is II said Attempts to grow the plant under different dif dlf- ferent forent conditions prove that rubber la le lacking a although propagation of the pia plant nt II me successful Guayule grows growl very ery slowly requiring about fifteen years jears earl to mature It I is II pulled from tro the limestone fissures fissure with the root roola as neatly neaMy Intact as possible The rubber cornea come from the roots bark barkand barkand barkand and woody part pArL of the plantA plant A much larger rubber yield I is II sought under a chemical I process of 01 extraction now In an experimental stage It was waa further 1 pointed 1 out This process I le II being developed at Marathon and Sanderson San San- demon derson Tex where plants plant are operated Counties In Tex Texas having conditions favorable fa I t for production of 1 guayule are ir Brewster Terrill f. f Presidio dl Feces Cut Cut- bertion bertson and tl EI Paso according to Lo the ex experts |